Begalan Arts, The Philosophy of Life
Saturday, October 13, 2012
Begalan
is a type of traditional Banyumas art in Banyumas region of Indonesia. This art
is usually performed in a series of wedding ceremony. It is shown when the
groom and his entourage entered the court of the bride house. Word begalan is
similar to robberies in Banyumas language. The interesting part of the art is
the dialogue between the mugged by the robber typically contain criticism and
advice for prospective brides and delivered in a style full of witty humor.
The
ceremony is held when the bridegroom is the eldest son. Begalan art actually is
a combination of dance and the art of speech or the art of clowning with
accompaniment gending (Banyumas local music instrument). As classical dance, the
dance movement is not so attached to certain important benchmark in tune with
the rhythm of the dance movement of gending. This arts consists of 2 dancers,
one to act as a carrier of goods (kitchen appliances), a longer acting as a
robbers. The goods were taken, among others steamer, sieve residue, and winnowing
tray. Their luggage is usually called brenong. Harrier usually carry a wooden
sword.
Costume
players quite simple, they generally wear Javanese cloth. The dialog presented
both players be translated from the language of the symbols items taken, for
example, the fan bamboo, interpreted as a warning to husbands and wives to
distinguish good and bad. Rice means that life requires a container that has a
certain order so it should not be done arbitrarily themselves. Steamers are
cooking appliance or cook rice, it symbolizes that after marriage the way he
thinks should be cooked or baked. Besides enjoying the attractions of dance
skill and gending rhythm, the audience was also treated to interesting of full humor dialogues.
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