Bamboo Spirit Traditional Dance from Maluku

Maluku is often synonymous with the beautiful voice and the song and dance. Many performers, musicians and dancers who came from Maluku. Maluku was once closely linked with the tradition of playing music and dance-dancing. If you want to know Maluku also recognize the need to dance the traditional diverse and so dynamic.

One of the traditional dances that we can know that dance is a dance called Bulu or Bamboo Gila Gila, a dance that comes from the people of Maluku Tengah game. This dance is a traditional game that is usually be the youth village on certain occasions. Previously the dancers will move with the movement lincah bamboo that has been mad by dimanterai diviner. They will create a series of movement and associate of each other, with the agility of movement that includes legs to walk, jump and ran the music sound dynamic. With such a dynamic movement of the dancers are required to have strong enough physically.

Dance is now almost extinct, and only a movement-gerakannya changed into a dance with a sprightly foot movement and feather (bamboo), which didekap both hands. Movement that signifies unity and unity in the community. Movement of a compact and in time this is actually the symbol of the spirit of gotong royong, a life that is unity and in implementing the various facets of life, which is the soul of gambarang cooperativeness or "Masohi" is a cultural Maluku since first epoch.

Dancing is another traditional dance Lolyana which is a tradition and culture community Islands Teon Nila, Serua. Dance is the ceremony to harvest lola in the form of performance. Lolyana itself is a common word used to work for one of the seafood, lola. Lola harvest was conducted after sasi lola officially opened by the head of the religious and customary local stakeholders.

In the area of Maluku, sasi is known as one of the traditional institution defined as restrictions or prohibition to collect the results, both the nature and results of the sea, to the time that has been agreed by all the villagers. Its function is as a means of control to manage and maintain sustainability and preservation of natural resources from human greed.

Lola process begins with the harvest festival of the people beset since bonfire night until dawn. The ceremony was followed syukuran and prayer to the Almighty for the success of the harvest, which will be implemented. Towards the rising sun, the harvest would be conducted gotong royong by men and women. The process of harvesting that lola and enshrined in the dance Lolyana.