cakolosal… 5000
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Wuih…ini acaranya memang manteb abis, beruntung saya bisa hadir disana,walau pun awalnya sudah males mau kesana… karcisnya mahal diatas 250 ribu…ach tapi kalo abis nonton pertandingan Persebaya kayaknya sih mendingan berangkat aja (biasanya sih di republik ini apa saja bisa terjadi sapa tahu karcisnya turun jadi 5 ribu…or the worst case is ‘bonek’ phenomena…) so I grab my D50 rush to Tanah Lot…aduh ini jalan sepanjang menuju Tanah Lot kok rusak semua…?!
Nah ini ada foto-foto cakolosal saya yang ancur…gelap semua !!! (maklum amateur…)
CAKOLOSAL 5000
Artistic stage dance the spektakuler is performed in Tanah Lot , Tabanan, Bali. As much 5.000 dancer will show the dance cak. This represent the event the first time whereabout dance the cak show colossally. colossal staging Dramatari cak 5.000 dancer to be performed [in] background of jaba of Gate of Tanah Lot Kediri, Tabanan, Friday ( 29 / 9) the is not ordinary artistry staging. performance. Spektakuler to enter the Muri ( Museum of Indonesia) records , will present three show. Early with the environmental dance staging, continued by colossal dramatari cak act the Kumbakarna and Rahwana Lina, terminated with the dance of Deity devoting Go out to sea the. Artistic Performance. The dramatari take the act of epic Ramayana which durated about one hours, its execution time use the sunset directive. Radian dance started before sunset, while dance of Kumbakarna and Rahwana Lina performed snugly sun moment sink the ( sandikala). On the contrary, dance the Deity devoting Go out to sea to take the time after sun sink . Opener dance in the form of environmental dance ( environment dance) background that Tabanan known as by a agrarian area or agriculture, what seyogianya improve the environmental settlement, like reboisasi, conservancy, and environmental keamaman. Environmental dance express, how all farmer so motivated to plant the paddy, pohon-pohonan, and chase the bird of paddy pest in rice field. Also, depicting besotted farmer do the farm with the equipments and way of traditional, till develop the ability hence modern technology and appliance. [At] this scene is brought by a traditional music equipments like kulkul ( kentongan) and tek-tekan, containing of pancanada as gamelan yielding harmony voice nice enough. ” environmental dance Staging moment of waiting, there is dancer procession bring the tek-tekan and kentongan.”
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A Kecak dance being performed at Uluwatu, in Bali
A Kecak dance being perfomed at Kolese Kanisius, Jakarta
Kecak (pronounced: /‘ke.tʃak/, roughly “KEH-chahk”, alternate spellings: Ketjak and Ketjack), a form of Balinese music drama, originated in the 1930s and is performed primarily by men. Also known as the Ramayana Monkey Chant, the piece, performed by a circle of 100 or more performers wearing checked cloth around their waists, percussively chanting “cak” and throwing up their arms, depicts a battle from the Ramayana where the monkey-like Vanara helped Prince Rama fight the evil King Ravana. However, Kecak has roots in sanghyang, a trance-inducing exorcism dance.[1]
Kecak was originally a trance ritual accompanied by male chorus. German painter and musician Walter Spies became deeply interested in the ritual while living in Bali in the 1930s and worked to recreate it into a drama, based on the Hindu Ramayana and including dance, intended to be presented to Western tourist audiences. This transformation is an example of what James Clifford describes as part of the “modern art-culture system”[2] in which, “the West or the central power adopts, transforms, and consumes non-Western or peripheral cultural elements, while making ‘art’ which was once embedded in the culture as a while, into a separate entity.”[3] Spies worked with Wayan Limbak and Limbak popularized the dance by traveling throughout the world with Balinese performance groups. These travels have helped to make the Kecak famous throughout the world.
Performer, choreographer, and scholar I Wayan Dibia cites a contrasting theory that the Balinese where already developing the form when Spies arrived on the island.[4] For example, well-known dancer I Limbak had incorporated Baris movements into the cak leader role during the 1920s. “Spies liked this innovation,” and it suggested that Limbak, “devise a spectacle based on the Ramayana,” accompanied by cak chorus rather than gamelan, as would have been usual.[1]
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Film
- Video of a kecak performance is prominently featured in Ron Fricke’s 1992 film Baraka.
- A kecak chant can be heard in Federico Fellini’s classic 1969 film Satyricon. It was probably sampled from David Lewiston’s 1969 LP of Balinese music entitled Golden Rain, released on the Nonesuch Explorer Series.
- Kecak chanting is incorporated into the soundtrack for the Japanese anmiated film Akira, which also uses the Indonesian gamelan prominently.
- A Kecak-style dance and chant can be seen in the fantasy portion of Tarsem Singh’s film The Fall (2006), in which the Balinese actors incorporated words to describe the map being drawn.
- The chant is heard during a scene in the Coen Brothers‘ film Blood Simple.
- A Kecak chant is shown for a few minutes close to the end of the erotic French drama Emmanuelle 2 (1975), when the main characters go to Bali.
Pop music
- A sample of Kecak chanting kicks off The Pop Group’s 1980 album For How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder?
- Mike Patton performs a Kecak-like chant that is incorporated in the song “Goodbye Sober Day” on the 1999 Mr. Bungle album California. Patton had previously performed a similar passage of rhythmic chanting in the Faith No More song “Got That Feeling,” from their 1997 Album of the Year.
- A sort of Kecak chant can be heard in Jade Warrior’s Floating World side-B album, called simply “Monkey Chant”. It has been mixed including a Jimi Hendrix-like guitar solo (played by David Duhig).
- A song from the debut album by musical group Hercules and Love Affair has an intro in the style of Kecak chanting.
TV
- A Kecak chant is played during the closing credits of the Asian-influenced show Avatar: The Last Airbender.
- A Kecak dance is performed in a Season 2 episode of MTV’s Wildboyz, with Chris Pontius and Steve-O eagerly participating in the ritual during their stay in Indonesia. Here it is referred to as a “Sardono Kecak”.
Video game
- Kecak chanting forms the basis of the song “The Oracle” in the Super NES video game Secret of Mana.
- Kecak chanting is featured in the song “Kecak” in the Japanese music video game beatmania IIDX 11 – IIDX RED. Songwriter John Robinson got inspiration for this song from the kecak dance.
- Kecak is a mini-game in Capcom’s Breath of Fire IV video game for PlayStation. The player mimics the chants by timing button presses corresponding to the screen.
Bibliography
- Kecak from Bali. Produced by David Lewiston, 1990. One compact disc (duration 44:53) with notes and libretto by Fred B. Eiseman and David Lewiston. 9019. As of 1991 this was the only commercial release outside Bali which features only and a complete performance of kecak[5].
- I Wayan Dibia, Kecak: the vocal chant of Bali. Denpasar: Hartanto Art Books, 1996. vi + 83pp. Tables, photos, index. ISBN 979 95045 4 6. “This little book covers all the elements of Kecak”[4]
Sources
- ^ a b “‘Cultural Tourism’ in Bali: Cultural Performances as Tourist Attraction”, p.59. Author(s): Michel Picard. Source: Indonesia, Vol. 49, (Apr., 1990), pp. 37-74. Published by: Southeast Asia Program Publications at Cornell University.
- ^ James Clifford, The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art (Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 1988), p. 223. Cited in Yamashita (1999), p.178.
- ^ Review: [untitled] Author(s): Shinji Yamashita. Reviewed work(s): Bali: Cultural Tourism and Touristic Culture by Michel Picard. Source: Indonesia, Vol. 67, (Apr., 1999), pp. 177-182. Published by: Southeast Asia Program Publications at Cornell University.
- ^ a b Review: [untitled], p.195. Author(s): David W. Hughes. Reviewed work(s): Kecak: The Vocal Chant of Bali by I Wayan Dibia. Source: British Journal of Ethnomusicology, Vol. 6, (1997), pp. 195-195. Published by: British Forum for Ethnomusicology.
- ^ Review: [untitled]. Author(s): David Harnish. Reviewed work(s): Kecak from Bali by David Lewiston. Source: Ethnomusicology, Vol. 35, No. 2, (Spring - Summer, 1991), pp. 302-304. Published by: University of Illinois Press on behalf of Society for Ethnomusicology
External links
- Treasures of the Asia Collections: The Ketjak Dance, Cornell University
- Bali Honeymoon: A Photo Gallery - Bali’s Kecak Dance photo gallery
- WalterSpies.com - This way[clarification needed] Walter Spies could study the Kecak and invented a way to transcribe it to paper.
