Building Youth Awareness toward Indonesian Culture through Ballet Performance

DOI

10.2991/soshec-19.2019.58How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Indonesian art and culture, transformation, folklore, ballet performance, traditional

Abstract

Ballet is one popular foreign culture in Indonesia, especially in metropolitan areas although not as popular as modern dance. Currently, the proud and concern for preserving the arts of traditional culture is less embedded in Indonesian’s young generation. This paper describes a case study at one of the Si Kabayan ballet performance by Marlupi Dance Academy. This’s an attempt to introduce the richness of Indonesian culture through a transformation of folklore to ballet form to build awareness of the young generation towards Indonesian Culture. The qualitative approach will reveals how the process of transforming Si Kabayan folklore into ballet performing art, as an effort that can be made by artists to arouse interest in the younger generation in preserving Indonesian art and culture it has opened a public discourse that ballet performances can be used as educational vehicles, introduction of various Indonesian arts and cultures to the younger generation.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Rizka Nuraini Arief
AU  - Anik Juwariyah
PY  - 2019/12
DA  - 2019/12
TI  - Building Youth Awareness toward Indonesian Culture through Ballet Performance
BT  - Proceedings of the Social Sciences, Humanities and  Education Conference (SoSHEC 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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SN  - 2352-5398
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