Badung
The Center of Tourism
Folk
Art Shows to Welcome the Year 2004
To welcome the
New Year 2004, the government of Badung
Regency will hold a Folk Art Show at Kuta
Beach, just in front of Bali Intan Hotel,
Legian Kuta. The show constitutes an annual
event that has been held since 2001, and
performs several traditional shows from
throughout the Badung Regency. Although
the venue will be the same, the performance’s
venue will be divided into two. A Special
for Ngelawang Barong and Baleganjur will
be performed at the beach. Two performances
that require many players will mingle
among the crowd, so there is no border
between spectators and the dancers. Meanwhile,
other performances will be on the permanent
stage. .
Drs.
I Wayan Suardaniyasa, Art Conservation
and Maintenance Section at Badung Regional
Office of Culture, said that the kind
of performing arts showed each year are
always changeable, including the supporting
troupe. Existing performing arts, especially
those in the Badung Regency remains to
survive, and if possible to develop. In
addition, it also aims an opportunity
to art observers and artists to express
their talents and capability in art creativity.
“The main purpose is to preserve
art and culture as an ancestor’s
heritage. So, this event will be expected
to support the process of Bali tourism
recovery because of several incidents
experienced by Bali and Indonesia in general,”
he said when visited at his office.
Art performances that involve some 400
artists will not only make traditional
performances, but also present modern
art groups. The group of creative performances
of art in Badung Regency is really small
in numbers. But on this occasion, a modern
performance will present Cahya Atsuka
Entertainment in cooperation with Uma
Music Fusion. Last year, the group chaired
by Ketut Lanus performed contemporary
dances that were supported by dancers
that graduated from the Indonesian Academy
of Music and Dance (now ISI) Denpasar.
At his next performance, he will present
a musicalization of poetry. “I’d
like to try presenting new art that is
rarely performed, whether it is acceptable
or not. Yeah, just to measure people’s
appreciation,” said Ketut Lanus,
a graduate of STSI Denpasar.
He also added, that even though it is
called modern art, in its performance
it persistently puts priority to the traditional
beauty of Bali, just like making a song
arrangement accompaniment together with
its costumes. To make the atmosphere merrier,
musical accompaniment consists of a combination
of modern musical instruments and sets
of Balinese gamelan, like gangse, kendang,
gong, cengceng, and rebab. Sometimes it
is combined with other traditional musical
instruments, like kendang Sunda, Rebana
and Jembe, an African instrument. On the
occasion, 25 artists presented 4 songs
and a composition of music instrumentals
to support the musicalization. “Actually,
we just like to entertain, it’s up
to the audience to appreciate it,”
Lanus added.
As stated by Swardaniyasa, the presentation
of many art performances will be free
of charge starting at 6 o’clock in
the evening until the sunrise of 2004.
In the first seconds of the beginning
of the New Year 2004, there will be a
speech by the Badung deputy regent, and
at midnight, local time, a lantern and
fireworks display will be lit simultaneously
accompanied by a gamelan orchestra to
welcome in the New Year.
The New Year’s Eve party will start
with a presentation of a Ngelawang Barong
procession presented by the Kembang Sari
Troupe Petang at Kuta Beach from 18:00-19:30
LT. At the same time, a Banjar Pande Troupe,
Mengwi, will perform an energetic and
dynamic baleganjur. Then, other planned
performances will be presented in succession
on the stage including Balinese pop songs
by Bali Artist Forum led by Yong Sagita
(at 19.30-20.30 LT), the gong kebyar orchestra
of Banjar Teguan, Punggul Abiansemal (20.00-20.30
LT), lepas dance by K Tumaritis Studio
Bongkasa, Abiansemal (20.30—21.10
LT), Kembang Janger Dance by Banjar Belawan,
Abiansemal (21.10-22.00 LT), poetic musicalization
by Cahya Atsyuka Entertainment in cooperation
with Uma Music Fusion (22.00-22.50 LT),
Bondres (22.50-23.45 LT), Baleganjur Creation
Dance from Sedang Village, Abiansemal
(24.00-24.40 LT), Barong Shio. And at
the end all will be cheered up by Balinese
pop songs from (24.40-onwards).(BTN/sana)
