Lumense Dance, Traditional Dance From Southeast Sulawesi
Southeast Sulawesi is one of the provinces located on the island of Sulawesi so that its name was taken from the name of the island itself and added the part with the island itself. Southeast Sulawesi has one of the typical traditional dance arts, namely Lumense Dance.
The word Lumense is derived from the language of the locals and consists of two syllables namely the word lume (fly) and mense (high), so this lumense has a high flying meaning. Lumense dance originally came from Bombana District in Kabaena Subdistrict. The tribe that occupies the area is Moronene tribe, even almost throughout the region of Southeast Sulawesi is inhabited, moronene tribe. The moronene tribe is the generation of the oldest of the Malay tribes and comes from the Hindu in prehistory.
Geographically, this kabaena sub-district is the largest island after buton and also Muna in southeast Sulawesi. Historically, this kabaena sub-district was under the rule of the kingdom of Buton, so the kinship relationship between Kabaena and the buton is very close. It also affects the development of culture in the region of Kabaenam including Lumense dance.
Lumense dance performances are usually performed to greet guests at parties, especially in folk parties. The number of dancers in this Lumense dance is 12 women, so this dance includes female group dances. Of all these dancers, 6 of them act as a man and 6 other dancers serve as women.
Clothing worn while dancing this dance is to wear traditional clothing Kabaena, for the dancers who play a woman will wear taincombo, taincombo this is the customary clothing Kabean design with a maroon skirt and black tops with a bottom shirt like a fish Mermaid. As for dancers to play a man will wear taincombo combined with red scarf, in addition, they also wear korobi (sarung parang of wood) which is carried on the left waist,
The beginning of this Lumense dance movement is to move back and forth, then change the place and form the configuration of the letter Z then change to the letter S, moomani or ibing is the name of the dynamic movement that is displayed. The climax of this dance is when the dancers constantly perform moomani and then shake the machete to the banana tree until it falls together to the ground. The cover of this dance is the dancers will form a semicircle configuration and hook each other's hands and move it up and down while offsetting the legs back and forth.
Musical instruments used in accompanying this dance are drums, large gongs (laughter) and small gongs (ndengu-ndengu). To accompany this Lumense dance only required three players. While the property used in this dance is like a banana tree tillers. But in its development movement in this dance is not all displayed, due to the duration of time that has sometimes been restricted, especially like the welcome of the state guests whose time is limited.
History records the rituals of pe-olia as a means of practicing Lumense dance. this ritual of pe-olia is a ritual of worship of spirits called kowonuano (ruler or owner of the land) by presenting various types of food. This ritual is done so that kowonuano deign to expel all kinds of disasters. Along with the development, Lumense dance function is starting to shift. Some argue that this Lumense dance tells about the social condition of Kabaena society today.
