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Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Mask dance


Of the Cirebon mask dance, is one of the dances in tatar Parahyangan. Mask dance called, because the dancers use masks while dancing. This mask myself a lot of variety, and experience in the development of the movement, and stories to tell. Sometimes the mask dance performed by dancers dance solo obscene, or it could be played by several people.

One other type of mask is a mask dance wungu rover golden mask is a series which tells the story of Parahyangan style queen who wungu Kencana pursued by king-Menakjingga the craziest thing about him. Basically, each representing the masks each character describes the human disposition. Kencana Wungu, with blue mask, representing a lively character but elegant. Menakjingga (also called wanderer), with a red mask represents a tempered character, tempramental and impatient. This dance work Soeradiredja Nugraha.

Hand and body movements are graceful, and musical accompaniment is dominated by drums and fiddle, is another characteristic of the mask.

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