EXPLORATION OF THE ACTION AND REACTION OF THE SPIRIT KITE GAME IN THE DANCE WORK “BINTANG JATUH”

Abstract

The dance work entitled Bintang Jatuh  or Shooting Star explores the actions and reactions of playing kitiran, namely darting, running, looking up, spinning, and catching. The idea for this work was created from the empirical experience of life in Bungkul Park, which was interested in a phenomenon of children's activities playing kitiran which produced visuals like shooting stars. Kitiran is a traditional game played by children, a game made of bamboo decorated with colored tape or tape and there are small LED lights. The kitiran game is played similarly to playing a catapult aimed at the sky, then the children look up to wait and observe the kitiran which can fall in various places, then the children will prepare to run to catch the kitiran. Something interesting about the kitiran when the children wait for the kitiran to fall is then analogized to the phenomenon of shooting stars as a symbol of hope. The process and creation carried out using the construction method 1 which has stages from initial stimulation, determining the type, determining the presentation mode, improvisation, evaluation, then selection and refinement of the motif. This dance work uses a dramatic dance type that focuses on the atmosphere that is to be presented and does not stage a story and uses a symbolic representative presentation mode in communicating and conveying with the audience. The techniques used are spin (turning), floorwork, staccato, and collabs, through bodily experiences that have been passed by the choreographer who presents the quality and range of movements that are broad, wide, and try to go beyond the limits of the body that has no limits.