PDA

View Full Version : Maengket Dance



transsky
24-05-2012, 14:39
Maengket is a dance drama as a culture from North Sulawesi. Formerly, it used at Traditional Ceremony, as a joyful expression when the people successed in rice harvest at many years ago. The dance is often performed on important occasions welcoming prominent visitors, as a prelude to competitions, or during local festivals. Maengket is accompanied by spirited harmonic songs in the form of Minahasan communal work.

This kind of North Sulawesi’s culture actually a variety of modernized and secularized dances consisting of three parts, Makamberu depicting the harvest time and in some parts of its choreography tell about romantic love poems; Marambak celebrating the building of a new house and passing on traditional values; Mah'laya is usually humorous and is generally full of merriment. Maengket DanceMaengket is a traditional dance that originated from Minahasa (Manado), where since time immemorial to this day is still growing.

source: northsulawesi-tourism.blogspot.com

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6032/6380898117_c7b0e25996.jpg

Photo by: gambar.mitrasites.com

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Bnr0YFY6RmE/TMbWAdg2eJI/AAAAAAAAAAM/_xuF98XEtVI/s1600/peristiwa-tari-maengket-23.jpg

Photo by: my-triond.blogspot.com

http://duchithlearnphotography.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/maengket10.jpg

Photo by: duchithlearnphotography.wordpress.com

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Sulawesi+Utara,+Indonesia&hl=en&ll=0.744303,124.683838&spn=1.889403,2.897644&sll=1.469604,124.892063&sspn=0.118064,0.181103&oq=Sulawesi+Utara,+Indonesia&t=h&hnear=North+Sulawesi,+Indonesia&z=9



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIk9pn9RmXc

Video by: MrMichaelpitoy