RASA: THE AESTHETIC OF SURAKARTA CLASSICAL DANCE

Abstract

Surakarta Classical Dance is a dance that lives and
grows inside and around of the Surakarta Palace. Classical
dance genres that had been lived up to now are bedhayasrimpi,
wireng dance, pethilan (a single dance and a couple
dance themed a soldier or romance). The existence of classical
dance of Surakarta is the continuation of the royal dances
that have ever been existed in the time of the Hindu-Buddhist
kingdom (the influence of the India people) on the island
of Java. Related to that the form and concept of aesthetic
that is inherent in Surakarta classical dances has continuity
with dance in the past. There is one term related to the concept
of aesthetic in Surakarta classical dance, namely rasa.
The term rasa in dance, also found in India dances.