Pendet is a traditional art from Bali performed by five female dancers with bring a bokor (tray concave) silver or brass. Likewise, this contains a canang with various kinds of Flowers that are in grasp with the right hand left hand dancers.
Then hair bouffant and decorated with flowers. With a decoration fabric traditional Balinese colored red and gold, making them more graceful. The hands of the dancers moving gracefully with the movement of soft fingers. Moving head follow the strains of traditional music.
Then with the bulging eyes and the occasional menyeledet left and right. Next they bertimpuh and put canang. Her arms crossed and then swung to the top and bottom, right and left. Then, they stood back to take canang and marched to the rear. At the end of the show, interest in the punchbowl at sprinkle to some of the audience as a welcome greeting.
This is the hallmark of the pendet dance from Bali. Very quiet, graceful, and really immersive. Pendet dance as one of the dance welcome to the first in the Island of Bali.
The History Of Dance Pendet Bali
Of the diverse types of dance in Bali, pendet dance as the dance of the oldest in the Island of the Gods. This dance is predicted to have existed since the 1950s.
Previous pendet dance is a dance of worship performed during the ceremony of religious Hindus as a form of greeting welcome to the top of the descent of god to earth. This dance as the result of a custom maestro of the art of Balinese dance that is named I Wayan Rindi.
I Wayang Rindi is a dance artist who has the ability to dance is awesome. Therefore, the development of the pendet dance is as a service from him.
Dance is taken from the pakem-pakem movement dance pendet gods or pendet original intended for the offering. Without losing the value of sacred, religious, and its beauty, I Wayan Rindi with Ni Ketut Reneng successful enter part pendet dance of the gods to the pendet dance that we know today.
Up simultaneously with the development of the era, Pendet Dance come also change the original function of this dance. Now, this dance is used as a means of show and dance of welcome greeting.
As dance performances and speech welcome to the first times of the year 1960 in the event of the ASEAN GAMES. The moment that the dance is held during the opening ceremony of the Asean Games by President Soekarno.
According to Anak Agung Gde Putra Agung in A Dance Ceremony of the Population of Bali classifies pendet dance trustee or sacred is called a part of religious ceremonies. While in terms of motion or personalitasnya, pendet can be grouped as a dance women soft and mass dance.
“The dancer-the dancers are from the group of village communities and there are also as sekehe Pendet whose membership is drawn from a group of their own family as a tradition,” said Anak Agung Gde Putra Agung.
Usually pendet dance displayed by the women. Complete with a suit of ethics and canang contains offerings. But in Karangasem, some of the men look so dancers. They are wearing Balinese tradition shaped white headband, fabric saput (shawl), umpal (fastener shawl), and woven leather.
Generally, in the area of Bali, tari pendet symbolizes the welcoming of the human in the presence of some of the gods from heaven. But simultaneously the changes of the times, pendet so dance to welcome the presence of everyone. In particular staged as part of the promotion of tourism in Bali.
Pendet dance was performed vigorously and expressive. Like a dance of Bali, this traditional dance, is also a play on the movement of the eyes called seledet.
The dancers will bring a bokor, a deep plate large filled flowers. One characteristic of the Pendet Dance is a sprinkling of such interest. Pendet dance accompanied by traditional Balinese music called gamelan. Of course, there are differences in the gamelan of Bali and Java.
In addition to the bokor, there are several other properties that are used Pendet, namely:
- The crown, as a headdress that is added with flowers such as frangipani putih, cempaka, or rose.
- Tapih, subordinate to the dancers who shaped kain jarik batik crap crap.
- Kemben, tops dancer which is usually colored red or gold.
- Shawl, also called Kacrik Prade wrapped around the waist of the dancer. Generally shawl red or yellow.
- Bracelet, though it was rarely used, the bracelet is one of a Pendet Dance which adds to the beauty of the dancer. Bracelet is used usually colored gold that is very harmonious with the costumes and the crown dancers.