Raja Cina Legong Dance is a Collaboration of Motion and Appearance

I Gusti Ngurah, Seramasara (2019) Raja Cina Legong Dance is a Collaboration of Motion and Appearance. Working Paper. ISI Denpasar, Denpasar, Bali.

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Abstract

Raja CinaLegong Dance is a re-actualization of the marital legendary story of the King Jayapangus with the Chinese Princess which was later personified as Barong Landung in Balinese society.Raja CinaLegong Dance was reconstructed by displaying the collaboration of the Legong dance with the dance motion of the Barong Landung as a Chinese cultural identity.The distinctiveness of the Barong Landung dance motion can be identified as a marker of the movements of Chinese dance within the Legong dance.The combination of artisticaspects has given its own attraction to study its motion and appearance. Therefore, this paper aims to examine the combination of the artistic aspects of this dance as a form of the development of dance movements in the reconstruction of Raja CinaLegong Dance. In line with that objective, accordingly the main issue which becomes the focus of attention is how the collaboration of dance movements in Raja CinaLegongDance and what the reconstructive meaning of Raja CinaLegong Dance collaborates the movements of Barong Landung and the motion of the Balinese Classical Legong Dance. To examine the existing collaboration between Chinese and Balinese cultural arts in Raja CinaLegong, data and theory are needed as material for analysis.To obtain data as a study material for the above issues, qualitative research methods are used with the main emphasis on the observation process. To determine the data validity, the results of observations are compared with the reading material from the library. As an analytical tool to study the main issues are used acculturation theory and structural functionalism theory. With the research method and the used theory can be produced a study that the collaboration of Raja CinaLegong Dance lies in the use of Barong Landung dance movements and their appearance in the pengipuk scene. Key Words: Raja CinaLegong, Collaboration, Motion and Appearance.

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