Dance Synopsis

   1. Beksan Srikandhi-Suradewati 

      A dance taken from Serat Mahabaratha story tells about a fight between Dewi Suradewati and Dewi Srikandi. Prabu Dasalengka, who wants to marry Dewi Siti Sendari, asks his sister, Dewi Suradewati, to propose. The fact that Dewi Siti Sendari has been enganged to Raden Abimanyu makes Dewi Suradewati to force more to propose. On the other hand, Dewi Srikandhi stands for Raden Abimanyu and makes a fight between those twi goddesses. As a result, Dewi Srikandhi achieves her victory.

   2. Retno Asri  

It is a short introductory dance that is adopted from a variety of different movements from Yogyakarta classical dance. It tells the story of young girls growing up in a dynamic, high-spirited way.

   3. Golek Kenya Tinembe

This dance tells a story of a grown-up girl who is in love. Her love causes her to always want to look as beautiful and as gorgeous as possible. She imagines an adorable prince who will come to her and declare his love for her. The emotion is so real, picturing the girl’s soul as a sea wave, for having the viewers caught up in the dance.

   4. Cantrik

The words Cantrik  actually comes from Javanese language. It is a dance which represents some pupils which are studying. While they are studying, they also play and work.

   5. Tetopengan

This dance is inspired by some varieties of man’s traditional dance movement which is developed based on the character of man’s dance movement for children. It tells us about a boy which is dressing himself up because he is falling in love with a girl. He combs his hair, powders his face, arranges his eye-brows and his moustache, tidies up his clothes, and finally looks in the mirror.