First Dance Performance with Ekayana Dance Studio

It was the story on January 8^th,2012. In the morning, Linda and I went to Pasar Seni, Ancol. We were going to perform Pa’gellu Dance on the stage of Dance Festival held by Ekayana Dance Studio. We are the students of Ekayana Dance Studio. The instructors asked us to join at Dance Festival whereas we recently joined at that course. We were so glad. We practiced less than a month to perform Pa’gellu dance. So we practiced hard every Tuesday and Friday evening until the day of performance. Pa’gellu dance is one of traditional dances from Toraja, South Sulawesi. Pa’gellu dance is usually performed by women at wedding ceremony or harvest time. Pa’gellu dance is reflecting a grateful and happiness of the successful efforts on farms there.

The costume was so beautiful. I was proud wearing it. I felt like a Toraja princess… here I am…

Dancing with Toraja costume

Pa'gellu dancing

Beside Linda and I, the dancers of Pa’gellu dance were Zelfy, Elisabeth and Nabila. They had practiced it before. Just hope that there was no mistake movement on the stage and we would be a cohesive group. Firstly, I didn’t know that the dance is competed, when we saw there were some trophies, ohh yeahh.. we should show our best. I just made one mistakes, hehee… just a little mistake. After all dancers performed their dance, it’s time to the announcement of the winners. Believe it or not! We got the trophy of Juara Harapan II. It’s amazing. I didn’t believe it! it is because we just practiced it less than a month, meanwhile the others have practiced their dance more than 3 months. I just can say, Alhamdulillah.

Congrats Pa'gellu Dancer !

Citra, Linda and Elisabeth with the trophy

Linda, Citra and the instructor of pa'gellu dance, Teh Evi

Here we are !

Next Dance Festival will be held on September at Anjungan Jawa Barat, TMII. We are going to perform Rampak Gendang Dance. That’s one of the dances I like. Just wait and see, our next performance. See yaa!