Five members of Sagoartminangkabau perform at ISI Padangpanjang, at ISI Padangpanjang Show Hall in a production entitled The Brave of Limpapeh which is choreographed by Intania Ananda Jonisa. Her performance featured a mixture of elements including dance, theater, music (internal and external for dancers) to create complex performances. In this case, the dancer acts both as an actor and a musician in full performance by combining internal and external artifacts. It has become a new offer with the aim of making it more innovative and can also be understood by many groups as a form of self-reflection for the audience.
Over the past 30 years, critics of feminist issues have evolved towards a textual approach and cultural analysis in general. Relating to gender, comparison of numbers of men such as dominance in the workplace, sexual relations and women’s roles in dramatic texts, exploitation of women’s bodies as sex objects and associated values and beliefs.
Five members of Sagoartminangkabau perform at ISI Padangpanjang, at ISI Padangpanjang Show Hall in a production entitled The Brave of Limpapeh which is choreographed by Intania Ananda Jonisa. Her performance featured a mixture of elements including dance, theater, music (internal and external for dancers) to create complex performances. In this case, the dancer acts both as an actor and a musician in full performance by combining internal and external artifacts. It has become a new offer with the aim of making it more innovative and can also be understood by many groups as a form of self-reflection for the audience.
From the visibility of this dance, the key signifier is the seat property. This chair is shown to explain the purpose that this dance concept proposes. Another signifier is the female figure as Limpapeh (female Minangkabau character) complete with scarves, hair, and shirt. To create the desired atmosphere, this dance also displays another signifier like a hut with Gonjong Rumah Gadang. The signifier of a traditional Minangkabau countryside.
In this dance, we will also find a signified that represents something red and yellow, brave, victorious, and careful watchful. This can be captured from the visualization of the dancer’s attitude as a signified. The collective image of the anima.
According to Jungians, In the human unconscious, there is anima which is a collective of inherited female images. In the image of a man, there is the image of the woman he has especially his mother who is projected to another woman. Likewise, women can also project animus images to men. In this scenario, this performance contemporary pointing to how brave women in Minangkabau cultural view.
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