Kabela as Local Content Enrichment for A Non Traditional Choreography at Gorontalo
Riana Diah Sitharesmi (a*), Helman Manay (b)

a) Pendidikan Sendratasik, Fakultas Sastra dan Budaya, Universitas Negeri Gorontalo
*rdsitharesmi[at]ung.ac.id
b) Fakultas Ilmu Sosial, Universitas Negeri Gorontalo

Abstract

The Kabela is a dance as one of cultural treasures in the area of Tomini Bay, which reflects the noble values of the traditions of the people who own it: Bolaang Mongondow. It is necessary to investigate more deeply the rules and essential values, so that the understanding of the meaning of this dance is completely intact for the Gorontalonese as well as the Bolaang Mongondownese. The research integrates the ethnographic techniques with methodical experiments in learning non-traditional choreography for the department of Pendidikan Seni Drama, Tari dan Musik at Universitas Negeri Gorontalo. Ethnographic techniques place field research simultaneously with literature studies, to create a qualitative-phenomenological analysis process that considers emic and ethical data. The choreography process adapts Hawkins exploration model as a guide for realizing experimental works, which also creates an intersubjective understanding discourse process on the Kabela. The results show that the presence of the Kabela is reinforcer of the tradition of ^eating the betel nuts^ as a noble tradition of the Bolaang Mongondow people in welcoming guests, newcomers, or ^others^ who visit their area, while the concept of non-traditional choreography makes sense of the meaning in the production of imaginative and sensory effects, so that the process of appreciation of the dance is active and dynamic.

Keywords: Kabela, non traditional choreography, local content, understanding dance

Topic: Optimization Research Based on Local Resources