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The Betawi mask dance (Betawi: Topèng Betawi) is a theatrical form of dance and drama of the Betawi people in Jakarta, Indonesia. [1] This dance-drama encompasses dance, music, bebodoran (comedy) and lakon (drama). [2] The Betawi mask dance demonstrates the theme of Betawi society life which is represented in the form of dance and drama.
Ondel-ondel is a large puppet figure featured in the Betawi folk performance in Jakarta, Indonesia. As an icon of Jakarta, ondel-ondel is often utilized as a pair for livening up festivals or welcoming guests of honor. It is one of a few Indonesian folk performances that has survived modernization and is still being regularly performed.
Picture of Topeng dance performance accompanied by gamelan in Damar Wulan Manuscripts, 1770-1795 AD. A collection of the British Library. Topeng (from Balinese: ᬢᭀᬧᬾᬂ; Javanese: ꦠꦺꦴꦥꦺꦁ, romanized: topèng; [1] Sundanese: ᮒᮧᮕᮨᮔᮌ) is a dramatic form of Indonesian dance in which one or more mask-wearing ornately costumed performers interpret traditional ...
Baksa Kembang dancers are equipped with a scarf (selendang) that is used to dance so that when dancing they look elegant and charming.One of the characteristics of the Baksa Kembang dance costume is the crown on its head called the gajah gemuling, which is a crown decorated with two small bogam flowers and woven young coconut leaves which are often called halilipan.
Jakarta is the economic, cultural, and political centre of Indonesia. Although Jakarta extends over only 661.23 km 2 (255.30 sq mi) and thus has the smallest area of any Indonesian province, its metropolitan area covers 7,076.31 km 2 (2,732.18 sq mi), which includes the satellite cities of Bogor, Depok, Tangerang, South Tangerang, and Bekasi ...
In 1965, in Jakarta, on the initiative of the late Raden Husin Natodirajo and Mgs. Nungcik Asaari, both were the two famous Palembang cultural figures, Mrs. Elly Rudy created Tanggai Dance carrying tepak and wearing tanggai. [1] This dance is also functioned as the Welcome Dance to welcome the arrival of noble guests who came to visit Palembang ...
The name change was at the suggestion of President Sukarno who asked the Central Lampung Regional Government to perform the dance at Istora Senayan Jakarta on August 17, 1965. Melinting is a dance inherited from Ratu Melinting which is estimated to have existed in the sixteenth century.
A kecak dance being performed at Kolese Kanisius, Jakarta This is an example of what James Clifford describes as part of the "modern art-culture system" [ 4 ] in which "the West or the central power adopts, transforms, and consumes non-Western or peripheral cultural elements, while making 'art,' which was once embedded in the culture as a whole ...