International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) | Volume VI, Issue VI, June 2022 | ISSN 2454–6186
Raundoh Tul Jannah, Endro Legowo, Achmed Sukendro, Pujo Widodo
Faculty of National Security, Republic of Indonesia Defense University
Abstract: The wars that have occurred in Indonesia since the arrival of the Portuguese in 1912 in Malacca have carved out a long history of seizing the independence which was declared on August 17, 1945, from the hands of the colonialists. This cannot be separated from the struggle of the fighters throughout the country, including women. The struggle is then retold through the art of folk dance, which is usually performed when people gather. The Pejuang Dance or Fighters Dance is one of Supadi Ngalimat Condropangrawit’s masterpieces that depicts the resistance of the Indonesian people, where not only men but women also play a direct role. The research method used is a qualitative method with literature studies and direct interviews with a dance educator from the State University of Semarang, Indonesia. As a result, dynamic and rhythmic dance movements liven up the atmosphere that took place during the struggle, there were training movements to play weapons, practice archery or known as gandhewa and form defensive fortifications. The movements in the Pejuang dance are a picture of traditional war strategies like a guerrilla and the high spirit of defending the country against the sovereignty of the Indonesian nation.
Keywords: Pejuang Dance, War, Strategic, S.Ngaliman Condropangrawit.
I.INTRODUCTION
Supadi Ngaliman Condropangrawit is a dance choreographer as well as an artist who writes historical masterpieces depicting the struggles of female heroes who fought with their weapons and shields. S Ngaliman is an artist who was born in Surakarta, Dutch East Indies in March 1919. This dance dancer who graduated from the Indonesian Karawitan Conservatory graduated in 1953, has experienced dancing since the age of ten and has developed his talent to explore the art of dance. the art of moving dance since 1935 and has produced many works from 1954 to 1987, one of which is Pejuang Dance [1].
As a legendary artist who lived in the colonial era and received awards from home and abroad for his work, Condropangrawit produced the Warrior Dance for no reason. The deep meaning of how the image of the hero’s persistence in defending the homeland to risking his life to seize regional power from the hands of the invaders. The spirit of love for the homeland that S. Ngaliman Condropangrawit always wanted to convey so that the younger generation could respect and carry on the national values of the nation’s heroes by imitating the shrewdness of reading the situation, adapting,