A BEAUTIFUL NDOLALAK DANCER

In a village far from the hustle and bustle of the city center, there is an art that has been passed down from generation to generation in the village. Indeed, the village is a village of dancers; most of the residents are also artists as their livelihood. In that village there are also 2 famous puppeteers who are of course well-known throughout the district, sub-district and are often summoned to appear at the Republic of Indonesia's anniversary, big events or celebrations outside the district to the province and it can no longer be denied that when you pass a corner the village sounds as if the villagers are rehearsing for their art performances and livelihoods, in perfect sync with the beautiful strains of the village children learning to read Iqro, Juz’ama and the Al-Qur'an with their beautiful chants at night.

There were also those who became ketoprak players, crew puppeteers in puppet shadow performances or the women there, most of whom also became sinden professionals who rehearsed once a week before booking a puppet performance. Diffusion between religion and culture is very evident there. Sandiyo with the Javanese ngoko accent is the name of the village which indeed refers to a noun which refers to Old Javanese which refers to the word in terms of etymology which means "Art" or when viewed from the terminology you will get from the Google search engine that art includes many human activities in creating visual, audio, or performance works that express the creator's imagination, ideas, or technical skills, to be appreciated for their beauty or emotional strength.

It is location of flanked by a large mountain towering between 2 districts and 2 provinces in Central Java and Yogyakarta. This is very, very supportive when viewed from an ecological or economic point of view, it is clearly very, very beneficial where the 2 cultures meet both in terms of the Javanese language, although it is "Ngoko", there is still a mixture of the Javanese version of "Ngapak", a term for regional Javanese rough language in the Cilacap region, Banyumas, Tegal Up to Kebumen and "Ngoko", the term for refined language, this is the area in the middle of Central Java, from the Temanggung regency area, Magelang to the south of Yogyakarta, then entering again to Solo and its surroundings. Even so, it is only imagery because in fact the dialect is used only for a variety of everyday uses; even this will lead to the use of "Krama Mady"a or "Krama Inggil" to interact with elders or a social contract between humans as a form of respect for others when using formal language. A high culture taste.

Let's just say that Tari is a Ndolalak dancer. At a millennial age and not even 20 years old, she looks beautiful, maybe because she was born from a descendant of her beautiful mother and father, who has a handsome face, is single and the target of many married men and single man. Her tomboyish stature does not reduce her grace when she dances. The shorts that clung to both of her thighs were in sync with her olive skin.

Surprisingly her family are all artistic blood. I don't know if it's hereditary or if it's just coincidence that her father is one of the well-known ketoprak players in her village who often finds himself in the world of theatrical performances that adopt themes and titles in Puppet Shadow series such as Mahabharata, Ramayana or other stories in ketoprak performances. Often the father named Sugiyono gets an important role in every show, naturally because of the basis of martial arts that is owned by him, sometimes he acts as Rama or Arjuna or the protagonists in his performances, indeed he is similar to Uko Uwais when he was young. Meanwhile, her mother is a beautiful, middle-aged sinden, even though she is more than half a century old, but her beauty never seems to fade with age, maybe because she often consumes herbs or body scrubs. When practicing vocals or singing, it is very melodious, similar to the famous Indian artist Kajol. Maybe when she was still young, if you look at it at that time, maybe the mother named Wartini became the target of young people in her village and was lucky that Mr. Sugiyono got the wife of a sinden who is beautiful and beautiful with a melodious voice as if attached to his beloved wife.

The fruit of their marriage love only gets a beautiful daughter. She is Sutari, who most people call “Tari”, if judging from the convergence theory of the National educator, Ki Hajar Dewantoro, it is indeed true that her parents' blood is concerned and involved in the art world with a supportive social contract that seems to be in sync with the manifestation of her identity as a dancer as form of existence and consistency.           

Not because of ethics and logic, but because of the inherent elements of art where he was born into a family of artists, his father and mother never forced what profession he would have later when he grew up, at first when he came home from school when he was still in elementary school, he always never misses just to see the Dolalak dance practice session, Ndolalak or whatever the name is called when it refers to a Dutch heritage art which seems to have a magical element emerge when the performance takes place, where the dancers will experience a trance and not a trance if I may borrow Sigmund Freud's term because there are different understandings and practices. If one looks, listens and pays attention, the dancers who are in a trance don't have rhythm and there are supernatural beings that intervene if the trance has a special pattern according to the direction of the therapist and there is no interference from the spirits. The term that is often misunderstood by people to see it in essence. Possession here clearly requires a medium, either fragrances or offerings. That way the dancers will consume

In the past, the elders said that the men who danced there, not the women like now. The shift in entity, however, does not reduce the taste, creativity and intention of the arts. Maybe emancipation pushed an artistic initiative to give birth to new nuances in terms of art, so that women are now also participating

His father, when he paid attention to his daughter's hobbies and concerns, from a young age to adulthood, never forbade her. Let the progress and fate of their own daughter be determined by thier own future daugher that was the opinion of the father because he knew very well the sequence and development of the Dolalak dance art in his village. Even so, she never backed down from learning and continued learning until she actually entered the dance studio. The location is not far from his house and the dance teacher who seems friendly and painstaking in teaching dance and his friends in the village. And the struggle was not in vain. She is always the center of attention because he holds an important position in this dancer performance. Even 8 years of dance training so that she is really proficient in performing the dance art. When she was performing, Klobot or Sintren Cigarettes which she smoked while dancing left the eyes of thousands of spectators with Desire. Her chubby body movements gave her a graceful impression. Whoever you are will be amazed to see the attractions.