Cittaraga: Healing Dance Studio Based on Traditional Sundanese Dance Een Herdiani1.
Muhammad Mughni Munggaran2 Postgraduate Program of Creation and Art Studies.
Indonesian Institute of Arts and Culture Dance Department.
Faculty of Performing Arts Institute of Arts and Culture Buah Batu Street No.
Bandung.
West Java eenherdiani867@gmail.
com, 2mughniiboo12@gmail.
ABSTRACT
Having a healthy body is the hope of every human being because with excellent health life feels more meaningful.
To maintain a healthy body, routine and regular activities are needed through medical health checks and other activities such as sports and dancing.
Dancing for health has not been revealed by many researchers.
Generally, people understand functions for ritual, entertainment, and performance needs.
However, there is a function of dance for health that has not been discussed much.
This study aims to reveal one of the studio activities that develop dance for health, namely Studio Cittaraga in Bandung.
This studio develops healing dance using traditional Sundanese dance movements.
Qualitativedescriptive methods are used to uncover these problems.
The objects he studied were the perpetrators, both figures of healing dance developers at the Cittaraga studio and training participants.
Observation, interviews, and documentation carry out data collection The results showed that Studio Cittaraga succeeded in developing traditional Sundanese dance movements for healing needs carried out continuously and enjoyably.
Keywords: Cittaraga.
Healing Dance.
Sundanese Traditional Dance.
Sundanese.
INTRODUCTION
so every human being must maintain his health (Septiano, et al.
One of the efforts to maintain a healthy body in addition to running a healthy lifestyle requires routine and regular activities both through medical health checks and other activities such as sports and dancing.
Dancing for health has not been revealed by many researchers.
Generally, people understand the function of dance for ritual, entertainment, performance, and educational needs.
However, there is another function of dance, namely for health that has not been discussed much.
One of the studios that develops dance functions for health is Ciitaraga Studio.
Health is one of the factors that is very supportive of oneAos happiness.
Happiness will arise when a personAos physical and psychological condition is in good health.
With a healthy body, all life activities can be done pleasantly.
Healthy living is the dream of every human being.
To get a healthy life, efforts are needed to run a healthy lifestyle from an early age.
Although there is no age limit to start a healthy lifestyle.
A healthy body is one of the capitals of a personAos success.
Likewise, a healthy body is believed to support every activity carried out by humans full of comfort and joy.
healthy body is a body that avoids disease Pantun Jurnal Ilmiah Seni Budaya Vol.
8 No.
2 Desember 2023 Being in the city of Bandung developed healing dance as its superior method of conducting body fitness training and therapy for its participants.
Officially this studio was established in 2015.
The founder of Cittaraga Dian Anggraeni graduated from the Dance Department of Karawitan Indonesia High School (SMKI) Bandung.
Besides being an active dancer, she also became a yoga instructor.
While studying at SMKI Bandung, he also had time to learn Tai Chi from a teacher.
Moch.
Saleh .
With his long experience in the world of dance as well as perseverance and craft in learning dance and yoga, as well as learning Tai Chi, on the way he was able to establish his own studio, namely Healing Dance.
The term Healing Dance is inspired by Tai Chi.
Yoga, and Dance Therapy or dance education for therapy (Interview.
Anggraeni.
August 2023 in Bandun.
Dance Therapy has been developed by dance therapy in several countries such as America.
England.
India.
Sri Lanka.
Africa, and so on.
In the 1940s in America already developed about the type of therapeutic dance that has a function for healing.
Dance therapy is a medium that has been applied, trained and has an association that has been certified for practice, namely (ADTA) American Dance Therapy Association (Dhanpy, 2021, p.
While in Indonesia dance therapy has not been developed The Cittaraga studio developed a dance for health using the term healing The term healing dance is used for the learning model in the hope that there is a more pleasant impression.
The word Cittaraga is used as the name of the studio because there are two targets to be given to its participants, namely delivering education about healthy food and healthy The goal is that trainees in his studio can perform movements focused on fitness, health and healing diseases with fun movements supported by consuming healthy foods with ingredients that can be made by students (Interview.
Anggraeni.
August 2023 in Bandun.
Not many people are aware of the function of dance for health needs so that dance is only considered as entertainment or as an aesthetic dish that can satisfy the eyes and hearts of connoisseurs.
In addition, dance also has an educational function because the educational values in dance are very relevant to life for character building.
In addition, what has not been widely studied is the function of dance for health, especially to help accelerate the recovery of non-communicable diseases.
Not only that, it turns out that dance can also be a promising profession so that it can increase income in life.
Dancers often feel fresh after dancing, but it has not been studied much why the body feels good and fresh.
The problem is that dancers do not know the science related to dance and Menara Cittaraga Studio which has been running for more than 7 years has proven and handled many health problems by doing dance movements sourced from traditional Sundanese dance.
This is very interesting to study.
Therefore, the research conducted tries to raise the following First.
Cittaraga Studio develops traditional Sundanese dance movements for the needs of body fitness, and health, and accelerating the recovery of a disease.
Second, why Studio Cittaraga developed healing dance to be trained and applied to its participants.
The purpose is to explain how Studio Cittaraga develops dance functions for healing needs and explain the driving factors of Studio Cittaraga in developing healing dance.
The problem will be discussed using function theory.
Herdiani.
Munggaran: Cittaraga: Healing Dance Studio Based On Traditional Sundanese Dance While the method used is qualitative research method.
This research is the initial research that will be followed up in the future in collaboration with various sciences that support this research such as the medical In this initial study, researchers studied community groups with their activities in developing dance healing.
This topic is very interesting and important to do because if the science has been found and recognized its validity will be beneficial to The object of this research has not been researched so that its originality can be maintained.
Research method in this scientific paper uses a descriptive method with a case study approach.
Descriptive research method is a research method carried out with the main aim of making an objective picture of a situation with a case study approach (Notoatmodjo, 2.
method of collecting data interviews, observations, documentation studies.
Ay.
Auhow .
Ay, and Auwhy .
Ay of a phenomenon, so this research is very appropriate using this method.
The stages carried out are literature studies, especially those related to the function of dance for health or for Furthermore.
I conducted field observations both at the Cittaraga studio by digging for more information through interviews, with both to the direct owner.
Dian Aanggraeni and her husband who supported DianAos steps.
Furthermore, interviews and information mining were carried out on Cittaraga members who had benefited from the healing dance that had been created by Dian Anggraeni, this was done to explore the phenomenon studied.
DISCUSSION