Serimpi dance is one kind of
Indonesian traditional dances from central Java. The name Serimpi cames from
the Javanese word impi (dream). Named serimpi because this dance has a duration
of approximately 45 minutes to an hour where the graceful movement of the
dancers can take the audience to the another world that is dreamland. Serimpi
dance is performed by four people who are all women. The composition of the
four dancers symbolize the four directions of the compass is Toya (Water),
Grama (Fire), Wind (air) and the earth (ground). While the name of the role is
Batak, Gulu, Dhada and Buncit which symbolizes pole marquee.
According
to the legend, the emergence of
this serimpi dance
originated from the
era of the Mataram kingdom, during
the reign of Sultan Agung (1613-1646). At that time the dance is considered sacred because only
performed in the
palace as a state ritual to alert sultan ascended the throne. But in 1775, when the kingdom
broke into Sultanate
of Yogyakarta and Surakarta, serimpi dance then divides into two
style, that is Yogyakarta Sultanate style and Surakarta
Sultanate style. Serimpi
dance in Yogyakarta
Sultanate classified into Serimpi Babul Layar,
Serimpi Dhempel, Serimpi
Genjung. While in
the Sultanate of Surakarta classified into Serimpi Anglir Mendung and
Serimpi Bondan.
As
a
classical dance at
the Yogyakarta Palace, Serimpi Dance as a noble art
has become as
well regarded as a palace heritage. Dance themes
shown on Serimpi
describing dispute between two opposites side that is good and bad,
right and wrong,
human reason and human
passions. Battle expression
in the dance is seen clearly in the same
movement of two pairs of soldiers supported
with weapon properties include
a small dagger or
cundrik, jebeng, spears,
jemparing and guns.
Serimpi
dancer wear a Yogyakarta palace wedding dress as a costume with dodotan and
gelung bokor as a motive in the head ornament. But as the time flow, the
costume changed to seredan cloth and armless dress with frilled
headdress of cassowary feathers and a bracelet
with ceplok flower ornament and jebehan.
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