Note Performance “Ladder” Black-White Indonesia
by: Sahrul N
by: Sahrul N
"Listen, tell you the story line in an old mountain trim for duck eggs, long after, from two different sons of my mother's father was born a man named system of the barrel of two men of different minds, people call koto Piliang and body Caniago tiered up, down and sit bertangga sehamparan, sepematang upright like a painting of peace "
Unnamed democratic dialogue is promoted in the theater, entitled "Ladder" Yusril director of the Community Art Black & White Padangpanjang West Sumatra. Performances are approximately one hour duration is displayed at the STSI Padangpanjang dated July 21, 2007 and in West Sumatra Cultural Park on July 27, 2007. This theatrical work of art inspired by two previous works of poetry "Ladder" by playwright Iyut Fitra and "Level" by T. Prel
Tiered up, bertangga down, is a system of government in Minangkabau, announced by Datuk Katumanggungan or better known as Koto kelarasan Piliang. This system uses the pattern of top down or everything is determined by the leader to power. Like dialgog "I say black, black, white and white I said." Suau decision no longer to be inviolable.
Unlike the case with the words of Sitting sehamparan, erect sepematang, which are words in Minangkabau in the system of government that was launched by Datuk Perpatih Nan Sabatang or better known as kelarasan Caniago Bodi. This system uses the pattern of everything was determined by deliberation and consensus.
Both these systems grow and walk in the same time from the past until now. Minangkabau society does not question the difference between the two, but both or go together to collaborate and help each other. Two systems of opposites but help each other raises the question, whether democracies are believed by the Minangkabau society?
Collaboration system of government was manifested in the form of contemporary theater with an acting concept of distortion where the body is no longer a real body. Actor's body is a body without sex, she can be a social body, cultural body, the body of acrobatics, body and body ikonitas infinite. This body to create a diverse meanings of space within each actor. The desire for each body part to talk a lot of meaning is very decisive. But unfortunately, poetic dialogue that becomes the direction of events is sometimes spoken by an actor without a tendency of meaning, so the word go.
Through the help of a number of the property ladder as the number of actors (eight), the search expression in the form of flat but not spatial in all directions. Stage floor can exist everywhere, not only horizontally but also vertically. These properties of the wood creating an infinite sense of space and diekplorasi such a way become a menupang icons icons actor's body. Stairs could be a stage itself, can also become prisons, towers, curtain walls, bridges, charges, casket, and so forth. But searching exploration of this property in certain parts can become verbally and without ikonitas.
So also with events taken from the Minangkabau myth is only a tool to uncover something more universal. Events without a title this diaktualisakan democracy with democracy as a whole are here on this earth. Event of war with all its consequences and the colonization of civilization by developed countries against developing countries and backward, into the spotlight this humanitarian work. Can be seen in the dialogue "in the east of the sun will rise" could be an indication that there is strong resistance against western hegemony.
Minangkabau icons become an important reference in this show. Silat movement, language, Carano (where betel) and others in the whole event is an attempt thematic ties maintained by the director in order to integrate the structure. It's okay to talk local, but the meaning to be conveyed is no longer local. This is an effort to search for meaning that transcends reality.
Enlarging the meaning of these events Minangkabau mythology, sometimes interrupting the identity of the real issue. Clips of the event was cultivated as much as possible to have a coherent structure of relationships, but often also lost. Or is this a desirable Yusril? Something entirely distortion?
Posted by Nasrul Azwar
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