Greetings, how are you friend cross culture hopefully healthy and happy. Thank you #crossculture, on this occasion I share the experience of seeing the "Jathilan" art performance.
Each Province in Indonesia has a different culture, including culture,one of which is the Jathilan art culture. Jathilan art is basically an art that is similar to the art of Kuda lumping(horse braids).
Jathilan dance history. This dance tells the story of war exercises led by prince Mangkubumi to face enemy troop. Jathilan dance a ppeared as entertainment for weary,tired and hungry war soldiers in remove village and then they mingled and partyed while dancing.
Jathilan are is one of the folk arts that developed in Yogjakarta, this dance has existed since the Colonial are and continues to grow until now. I saw this dance in the City of Yogjakarta. Jathilan is on art this unites element of dance movement with magic.
I saw this performance started with dances by dancers played by dance around the age of 20 to 30 years. The movement is very slow but then the movement slowly becomes dynamic following the sound of the Gamelan being played.
The musical instruments used drams, drums, lemong, gongs, slomptet fluts with shrill sound. Usually the songs that are sung are in the form of so that humans always do good deeds and always remember God. The dancers after a long time of dancing, possessed a subtle spirit that almost didn't ralize what they were doing.
I saw then doing very dynamic movements, following the sound of the Gamelan. The dancers also perform atfraction that can not be judged by common sence. In Jathilan art performances, there is a spirit handler, that is a person who can bring spirit that possess the dancer and can also awaken the dancer.
Jathilan art a part from being entertainment and religious, this Jathilan traditional dance also often contains elements of ritual. This ritual is to ask permission from the ruler of this place so as not to inter fere with the dance performance that is being carried out. Thank you very much.
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