Art of Dance Kuda Lumping
Art of Dance Kuda lumping is a dance art that is staged by using equipment from horse artificial made of woven bamboo. Viewed from the rhythm of this lumping horse dance turned out to reflect the spirit of heroism and military aspects of antiquity, that is a cavalry troop riding.It can be seen from the dance movement of lumping horses are dynamic, rhythmic and aggressive, like the troop horsemen amid the battlefield.
The history of the origin of the art of trai lumping horse, much of the spirit is a form of popular support for royal troops of Prince Diponogoro in the face of Dutch colonizers. Raden Patah, assisted by Sunan Kalijaga against the Dutch people who colonized the country. Another version also mentions this dance tells about the Mataram troop war games led by Sultan Hamengkubuwono I, the king of mataram to review the troops of the Dutch army.
Another history mentions the origin of horse lumping begins at the time of the javanese life of a powerful monarch mandaraguna, king who read many stories of heroism mahabarata. The king was very amazed at the story of the war of Bhatar Allahudah in kurusetra descended by the Brahmins and the palace kstaria. And the king sure sure Bhatarayudha war will be repeated in Java.
He is very interested in the army of Arjuna with his horses whose images are shown by his great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandmother of the land of Alengka, because he is the descendant of the tamil hindu escape from the land of Sri Langka.
The great-great-grandfather of the king then enters into Dwipa Java and royal forms and uses the title of aria, which in fact is the name of a prominent ethnicity in India. Will avoid saying as an aria tribe contrary to aria skin color, he is full of colorless caste up to grandchildren who now hold the power and continue to dream of horsemen.
Until the time when the king was accompanied by the head of the balang and his bodyguard and climbed into the merchant's boat from Persia, because the king of Java had no boat and was blind to the science of shipping, admiration for the beautiful and magnificent building of Persian architecture, he was also stunned by the dashing horsemen who had a massive body, big horses, a regular horse line and also the sound of a thunderous pace of footsteps. The fact that he saw it directly adds to the admiration of the merchant's image. The king praised and dreamed that if he could have a horse-like soldier of course he would be the strongest king in the land of Java, and the kings would be knees to his knees.
The king with all his wishes can bring these horses into his soldiers at once, even though there will not be enough boats to carry them, will very much wish the King very strongly, for only his horse is he carrying, will there be things where in their storms so terrible that all troops and boats menggkutpun come to drown, just because the luck of the king survived all disaster. He had made a blessing to the gods who had protected him and deplored his wish about an unheralded horseback.
Then sang the King begged the animal Gods and hermit in the cave, a time the Gods grant his wishes on condition that must be built from bamboo and gamelan bamboo material so that can ditunggani troop that will become a horse. Before the way the horses were given spells to eat grass and shard, the king was happy to come true, from there then the name of the lumping horse came from.
Lumping horse art popular in East Java community, such as Blitar, Malang, Tulung Agung and surrounding areas. Performances from lumping horse dances are usually on special occasions such as welcoming guests of honor, as well as thanksgiving ceremonies for the prayers granted by the Almighty. Lumping horses are often with subtle movements in supernatural attractions and magical attractions. For example, eating glass, eating embers, walking on broken pieces of shard and embers, lifting heavy objects, slashed knives, hacking with machetes to dance in a trance state.
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