Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Cendrawasih Dance


Cendrawasih is one of scarce fauna names around in Irian Jaya Island. This Cendrawasih bird has a beautiful and lovely feather, therefore Mrs. Swasti Wijaya Bandem interested to cast beautifulness and liveliness of Cendrawasih into a dances that also called Cendrawasih dance.

This Cendrawasih dance has meaning that are we have to preserved and protect scarce fauna in order not to be extinct, and its population remain maintain. This dance also describes liveliness of cendrawasih bird eager to play, chasing, in its community.

This Cendrawasih is lived by artist loves to express their self into body movement, because this dance is easy to learn and its movement composition is not so complicated. Besides easy to be comprehensive, this dance also has a very interesting costume. Color dominant by red color makes this dance looks like real. With wings variation able to be opened and flied by the dancer, will make this dance very beautiful. Besides that, the waist also ornamented by ampok ampok makes dancer waist seen slim, badong ornamented the neck also add to accessories type around neck also in arm ornamented by kana bracelet, unforgotten ring in head equipped with two horns become unique feature of bird dance.