Ebeg Dance

Ebeg is one of traditional dance that developed in the region of Banyumas Indonesia. It is known as Kuda Lumping Dance, and Jathilan dance in Yogyakarta Indonesia, also called Reog dance in East Java. But now I am trying to write the Ebeg dance. In Banyumas region, this dance uses  bamboo shaped like a horse black or white and rattles. Dancers wore pants coated fabric (batik) at the knees and black glasses, wearing a crown and Sumping ears. In both wrist and ankle bracelets rattle fitted so that the movement of the hands and feet ebeg dancers are always accompanied by the sound of rattles.

The Ebeg Dance Performance

The number of dancers ebeg consist of 8 men or more, two-stretchy penthul role, a role as a leader or mastermind, 7 people again as gamelan, so one ebeg group consisting of 16 people or more. All dancers use a tool-stretchy penthul ebeg while wearing a mask. Ebeg dances including the type of mass dance, performances require a fairly broad performances such as a field or court or wide yard. The show time is generally during the day with a duration of between 1-4 hours.

The music equipment for the Ebeg dance called Gendhing, consist of drums, saron, kenong, gongs and trumpets. In addition to equipment Gendhing and dance, there is also ubarampe (offerings) that must be supplied in the form of flowers, plantain and banana, coconut (dewegan), and traditional snacks.  To accompany the dance have always used songs Banyumasan rhythms like ricik-ricik, gudril, blendrong, eling -eling, and others.

There is something unique during the dance performances. The players used to eat broken glass (glass) or other sharp objects, peeling coconuts with his teeth, eat rice from the stalk, dhedek (bran), fire, etc.. thus demonstrating robustness (Knight), as well as players who riding the horse.