Telek Dance, Traditional Dance From Bali
Telek dance is still often performed regularly by a number of banjars or traditional villages in Bumi Serombotan, Klungkung, such as in Banjar Adat Pancoran Gelgel and in Desa Adat Jumpai. This type of guardian dance is an ancestral heritage that is abstinence not to be staged. Locals believe that Telek's performances as a means to promote the safety of the world, especially in their Banjar or adat villages. If desperate not to perform this dance, it is to invite the presence of sasab ( the disease in humans), languish (pest-disease in crops and livestock), and other disturbances that disrupt harmonization in the world.
This belief is so crystallized in the heart of Banjar Adat Pancoran, Gelgel and also Desa Adat Jumpai. They preserve this art from year to year, from generation to generation until not eroded the current of time. So strong they keep this art, to the extent that the entire standard on the dance of Telek Dance maintained in a sac.
In Banjar Adat Gelgel, said Pageh, Telek is staged 2 (two) times a year at Buda Umanis Perangbakat, the guardian of Ida Batara in Pura Dalem Guru, Pancoran and also on Buda Kliwon Paang, the guardian of Ida Batara Gede. Both of these stagings took place on the jaba side of Pura Dalem Guru. Every time Telek Dance staged, all krama certainly will witness it at once pleading for the safety of Ida Sang Hyang Widhi Wasa.
The performance of Telek Dance in Banjar Adat Pancoran, Gelgel was interrupted several years before Mount Agung erupted until the bloody tragedy of the movement broke out. Both the great tragedy that had devastated the peace of the people in Bali. In order to restore the torn peace, the elders of Banjar Adat Pancoran agreed to hold a series of repelled ceremonies. One of them is to revive the art of Telek Dance which they believe as a means to ask for the salvation of the world and the hereafter. Since then, Telek Dance has been staged to this day. In fact, pengempon Pura Dalem Guru has an agreement that the guardian's dance should still be staged forever to avoid distress.
While in Desa Adat Jumpai, Telek Dance is staged on every Kajeng Kliwon (fifteen days) and piodalan in Pura Penataran Dalem Cangkring, Taman Sari Temple and also Pura Dalem Katulampa. This means, most of this Telek Dance is staged about 27 times in each year.
Similarly, in Banjar Adat Pancoran Gelgel, krama Desa Adat Jumpai also has the belief that this Telek performance as a means of pleading for the safety of all living beings in this world from distress. He affirmed, his side also abstain from not staging this dance in the day-to-day that has been determined, except when in the village at the same time is experiencing the demise due to the krama dies. If it is violated, we believe there will be a disaster that will make our peace disturbed. For example, contracted outbreaks of disease and so forth.
According to Pageh and also Tabig, this Telek dance is performed by 4 (four) male dancers who are aged children until entering the trunks of flowers, namely akil behind. The four dancers are wearing a white mask with soft facial characters and also handsome and accompanied by gong kebyar percussion bebarongan. Whether it is in Banjar Adat Pancoran or in Desa Adat Jumpai, this dance does not stand alone. But always coupled with Batara Gede (barong), dance Jauk, mask Penamprat, Rarung and Batara Lingsir (rangda). All the elements that exist in the dance combine to build one-unity story intact with a duration of about two hours. The end of the show will be colored by the attraction of naratying or nudging the kris on the chest or the rider on the chest of the lionir Batara Lingsir.
Pageh and Tabig said, at the time the land attraction took place, be it the raiders and pemunut rangda will be in a condition of kerawuhan (trance). Telek dance is not a loose dance. All of these performances are functional for pleading for salvation and welfare, the two elders said.
According to Pageh, there is no provision that explicitly regulates the age limit of the dancer. However, Telek in Banjar Pancoran has been constantly performed by children dancers since the descent. Because the mask and also the bend (headdress) Telek was designed with the size of the face and head of children, so adults can not wear them.
The raw material from Telek mask will usually use wood pule which is also commonly used as raw material in tapakan (mask) barong and also rangda. Telek mask is a tetamian of the ancestors and no manners who know for sure when this mask telek made.
Telek mask is unchanged and also not replaced, for example by making a mask that is larger so that it can be used by adults. If the mask's color has been blurred, the community will only be limited to ngodakin (repainting) and not the mask replaced. It is the same for barong and racing. Before this Telek dance is performed, all dancers are obliged to follow the prayer at the temple in order to make this Telek Dance performance is sanctioned by God.
This belief is so crystallized in the heart of Banjar Adat Pancoran, Gelgel and also Desa Adat Jumpai. They preserve this art from year to year, from generation to generation until not eroded the current of time. So strong they keep this art, to the extent that the entire standard on the dance of Telek Dance maintained in a sac.
Telek Dance Performance or Performance
In Banjar Adat Gelgel, said Pageh, Telek is staged 2 (two) times a year at Buda Umanis Perangbakat, the guardian of Ida Batara in Pura Dalem Guru, Pancoran and also on Buda Kliwon Paang, the guardian of Ida Batara Gede. Both of these stagings took place on the jaba side of Pura Dalem Guru. Every time Telek Dance staged, all krama certainly will witness it at once pleading for the safety of Ida Sang Hyang Widhi Wasa.
The performance of Telek Dance in Banjar Adat Pancoran, Gelgel was interrupted several years before Mount Agung erupted until the bloody tragedy of the movement broke out. Both the great tragedy that had devastated the peace of the people in Bali. In order to restore the torn peace, the elders of Banjar Adat Pancoran agreed to hold a series of repelled ceremonies. One of them is to revive the art of Telek Dance which they believe as a means to ask for the salvation of the world and the hereafter. Since then, Telek Dance has been staged to this day. In fact, pengempon Pura Dalem Guru has an agreement that the guardian's dance should still be staged forever to avoid distress.
While in Desa Adat Jumpai, Telek Dance is staged on every Kajeng Kliwon (fifteen days) and piodalan in Pura Penataran Dalem Cangkring, Taman Sari Temple and also Pura Dalem Katulampa. This means, most of this Telek Dance is staged about 27 times in each year.
Similarly, in Banjar Adat Pancoran Gelgel, krama Desa Adat Jumpai also has the belief that this Telek performance as a means of pleading for the safety of all living beings in this world from distress. He affirmed, his side also abstain from not staging this dance in the day-to-day that has been determined, except when in the village at the same time is experiencing the demise due to the krama dies. If it is violated, we believe there will be a disaster that will make our peace disturbed. For example, contracted outbreaks of disease and so forth.
According to Pageh and also Tabig, this Telek dance is performed by 4 (four) male dancers who are aged children until entering the trunks of flowers, namely akil behind. The four dancers are wearing a white mask with soft facial characters and also handsome and accompanied by gong kebyar percussion bebarongan. Whether it is in Banjar Adat Pancoran or in Desa Adat Jumpai, this dance does not stand alone. But always coupled with Batara Gede (barong), dance Jauk, mask Penamprat, Rarung and Batara Lingsir (rangda). All the elements that exist in the dance combine to build one-unity story intact with a duration of about two hours. The end of the show will be colored by the attraction of naratying or nudging the kris on the chest or the rider on the chest of the lionir Batara Lingsir.
Pageh and Tabig said, at the time the land attraction took place, be it the raiders and pemunut rangda will be in a condition of kerawuhan (trance). Telek dance is not a loose dance. All of these performances are functional for pleading for salvation and welfare, the two elders said.
Telek Dance Mask
According to Pageh, there is no provision that explicitly regulates the age limit of the dancer. However, Telek in Banjar Pancoran has been constantly performed by children dancers since the descent. Because the mask and also the bend (headdress) Telek was designed with the size of the face and head of children, so adults can not wear them.
The raw material from Telek mask will usually use wood pule which is also commonly used as raw material in tapakan (mask) barong and also rangda. Telek mask is a tetamian of the ancestors and no manners who know for sure when this mask telek made.
Telek mask is unchanged and also not replaced, for example by making a mask that is larger so that it can be used by adults. If the mask's color has been blurred, the community will only be limited to ngodakin (repainting) and not the mask replaced. It is the same for barong and racing. Before this Telek dance is performed, all dancers are obliged to follow the prayer at the temple in order to make this Telek Dance performance is sanctioned by God.
