Have you ever seen directly someone using that kind of uniform and do you know what are they doing? Or maybe you have seen in the picture or you have never seen it. Ok, they are saman dancer and they are wearing Kerawang Gayo, a traditional dress from Gayo, and it special for performing saman dance, so what is sama dance????
Saman or a thousand hands dance is a traditional dance of Gayo people, its origin is from Gayo lues Regency. "Saman" name was taken from the name of person who created and developed this dance, his name is Syeikh Saman, and he was one of the Muslim scholars who spread Islam religion in Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia. The poems or songs that used in this dance are used to be in Arabic and Gayo, but nowadays most of the quatrains are in Gayo language since maybe the mastery of Arabic now gradually decreased, but in the opening of this dance, the dancer still use the Arabic. The songs in the dance contain religious message, satire, advice and the quatrain love.
Saman has spread widely to some districts, so saman is not only performed by Gayo Lues people now. Besides in Gayo Lues, you can see saman in Aceh tenggara, Bener meriah and Aceh tengah Regency and even some people said now it exists in Aceh Timur especially in Lokop subdistrict, it located at the border between Aceh Timur and Gayo Lues regency. The Saman dance is not only pleasurable for Gayonese community, but also the wider public community enjoy it very much and even people from abroad, some saman groups are invited to other countries for saman show.
This situation saman often experienced changed, however although saman change due to new creations, the originality still continue to be maintained. If you want to watch the performance of saman dance that still original, you visit Blangkeren subdistrict in Gayo Lues regency.
Usually Saman contest is carried out every very much coincided in the agenda of Republic of Indonesia Anniversary celebration in August. in days of yore, the dance showed in the special traditional agenda such as harvest festival, one village invite another village and both village perform saman dance up to two days and two nights (local people called saman roa lo roa ingi) for example village A invite village B in this year and in another time village B will invite village A, and between the village will establish a strong relationship. Beside harvest festival, this dance also shown in the formal agendas such as for welcoming guests of the statesmanship visit, or in the opening of a festival, in the party for circumcision and wedding party and other agenda.
The saman player wore the typical gayo clothes (kerawang).Photos-Winbathin.blogspot.com
The saman dance is played by not less than 13 men, The important think is the amount of player must be odd, maybe it will look better because one person is sitting in the middle as a leader (local people said penangkat or ceh/syeikh) and wedged by same amount at the right side and left side
The Saman dancers wore the typical uniform costume called kerawang gayo, with Bulang teleng in the head, the cover of the neck as well as the bracelet in two the wrist usually dancers use handkerchief with matching color. While performing, the dancer sat lined up long nearby with genuflection. Penangkat sat in the middle of the others dancers. The movement and the song that were sung had relations with dynamic, synchronism and showed the solidarity. The dance is preceded with the slow movement and slow voice, and gradually become harder with the clap hand, shake the head, as well as lifted the hands above and in the turn manner and increasingly fast until this dance ended.
Saman or a thousand hands dance is a traditional dance of Gayo people, its origin is from Gayo lues Regency. "Saman" name was taken from the name of person who created and developed this dance, his name is Syeikh Saman, and he was one of the Muslim scholars who spread Islam religion in Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia. The poems or songs that used in this dance are used to be in Arabic and Gayo, but nowadays most of the quatrains are in Gayo language since maybe the mastery of Arabic now gradually decreased, but in the opening of this dance, the dancer still use the Arabic. The songs in the dance contain religious message, satire, advice and the quatrain love.
Saman has spread widely to some districts, so saman is not only performed by Gayo Lues people now. Besides in Gayo Lues, you can see saman in Aceh tenggara, Bener meriah and Aceh tengah Regency and even some people said now it exists in Aceh Timur especially in Lokop subdistrict, it located at the border between Aceh Timur and Gayo Lues regency. The Saman dance is not only pleasurable for Gayonese community, but also the wider public community enjoy it very much and even people from abroad, some saman groups are invited to other countries for saman show.
This situation saman often experienced changed, however although saman change due to new creations, the originality still continue to be maintained. If you want to watch the performance of saman dance that still original, you visit Blangkeren subdistrict in Gayo Lues regency.
Usually Saman contest is carried out every very much coincided in the agenda of Republic of Indonesia Anniversary celebration in August. in days of yore, the dance showed in the special traditional agenda such as harvest festival, one village invite another village and both village perform saman dance up to two days and two nights (local people called saman roa lo roa ingi) for example village A invite village B in this year and in another time village B will invite village A, and between the village will establish a strong relationship. Beside harvest festival, this dance also shown in the formal agendas such as for welcoming guests of the statesmanship visit, or in the opening of a festival, in the party for circumcision and wedding party and other agenda.
The saman player wore the typical gayo clothes (kerawang).Photos-Winbathin.blogspot.com
The saman dance is played by not less than 13 men, The important think is the amount of player must be odd, maybe it will look better because one person is sitting in the middle as a leader (local people said penangkat or ceh/syeikh) and wedged by same amount at the right side and left side
The Saman dancers wore the typical uniform costume called kerawang gayo, with Bulang teleng in the head, the cover of the neck as well as the bracelet in two the wrist usually dancers use handkerchief with matching color. While performing, the dancer sat lined up long nearby with genuflection. Penangkat sat in the middle of the others dancers. The movement and the song that were sung had relations with dynamic, synchronism and showed the solidarity. The dance is preceded with the slow movement and slow voice, and gradually become harder with the clap hand, shake the head, as well as lifted the hands above and in the turn manner and increasingly fast until this dance ended.
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