Kabela as Local Content Enrichment for a Non Traditional Choreography at Gorontalo

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Kabela; non-traditional choreography; local content; understanding dance

Abstract

The Kabela is a dance as one of cultural treasures in the area of Tomini Bay, which reflects the noble values of the traditions of the people who own it: Bolaang Mongondow. Behind the ephemeral form and nature, it is necessary to investigate more deeply the rules and essential values, so that the understanding of the meaning of this dance is completely intact for the Gorontalonese as well as the Bolaang Mongondownese. This research is a starting point for mapping dance styles in eastern Indonesia, through strengthening local cultural values in northern Sulawesi in the construction of non-traditional choreographic concepts in Gorontalo. The research integrates the ethnographic techniques with methodical experiments in learning non-traditional choreography for the department of Pendidikan Seni Drama, Tari dan Musik at Universitas Negeri Gorontalo. Ethnographic techniques place field research simultaneously with literature studies, to create a qualitative-phenomenological analysis process that considers both emic and ethical data. The choreography process adapts Hawkins’ exploration model as a guide for realising experimental works, which also creates an intersubjective understanding discourse process on the Kabela. The results showed that the presence of the Kabela is a reinforcer of the tradition of “makan sirih pinang” as a noble tradition of the Bolaang Mongondow people in welcoming guests, newcomers, or “others” who visit their area. The concept of non-traditional choreography makes sense of the meaning in the production of imaginative and sensory effects, so that the process of appreciation of the dance is active and dynamic. This process is spiral-circular: understanding one's own traditional art gives oneself the ability to understand the traditional arts of others, and it is by understanding others, that one's appreciation of one's own is deepened.

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AU  - Riana Diah Sitharesmi
AU  - Helman Manay
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/01/17
TI  - Kabela as Local Content Enrichment for a Non Traditional Choreography at Gorontalo
BT  - Proceedings of the Unima International Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities (UNICSSH 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 526
EP  - 535
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/978-2-494069-35-0_65
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