Godhong maple
Godhong Maple The Indonesian Art and Community or Godhong Maple is a Non for profit organization who performs traditional Indonesian arts and cultures in Toronto. The name of Godhong Maple is coming from two words, Godhong and Maple. Godhong means leaf in Javanese language and Maple is a leaf from maple trees or a symbol from Canada National Flag. From these two words, Godhong Maple try to build an understanding between Indonesia and Canada culture through arts. They focused on assisting and educating young Indonesian Canadian generation to recognize their roots and cultural heritage from their country of origin, Indonesia.
Mission[edit]
Godhong Maple has a mission to create, develop, establish and maintain Indonesian Culture in Canada by performing gamelan orchestra, traditional dance, and singing traditional song through Choir group.
Core Value[edit]
Godhong maple core value is Gotong Royong (Joint bearing of burden) and Kekeluargaan (kinship). First, the term of Gotong Royong or Joint bearing of burden is a social concept of mutual aid, or help each other to achieve goal.[1] Second, the term of Kekeluargaan or kinship means that every members are a part of the family. So, every member voluntarily in a mutual help as a big family in the search for excellent in artistic performance.
Organization Structure[edit]
From 2007 to 2012 Godhong Maple had seven board of directors and three instructors. Within the board directors, one was appointed to be the Chairman each year and six of the board members assigned with their special duties such as secretary, treasurer, public relation, logistic, program coordinator and field coordinators. Since 2013 there were changes in organization structure, the organization has no longer with seven board of directors. They construct a new structure that consist a chairman, four board of directors, three instructor, a secretary, a treasurer, advisers and coordinators.
History[edit]
Godhong Maple was founded in Toronto, Canada in August 2007. It started from a conversation between Mr. Agung Prasetyo and Ms. Nira Bagoes. In 2007, Mr. Agung Prasetyo was an Indonesian Consulate in Toronto for Social and Culture department, he said to Ms. Nira,"gather 10 people and submit a formal letter to Mr. Harso. I will support it." A week after, Ms. Nira found 10 people who would join the group. Immediately the Gamelan training begun with Wiryawan Padmonojati as the Instructor.
From 2007 to 2012, Godhong Maple performed in various events such as Carassauga in Mississauga, The Road to Asia Festival in Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre (Toronto), and Red-path Harbourfront.
In September 2013, Godhong Maple was incorporated into Non for profit organization and having first independent performance to celebrate the sixth years anniversary in Brigantine Room of Harbourfront Centre by performing various performances.
In June 2014, the City of Midland invited Godhong Maple as a guest performance. Two year after, in September 2015, Godhong Maple collaborated with PERMIKA Toronto to celebrate the eight years anniversary in Indonesian Consulate in Jarvis Street, Toronto with two performances of traditional Javanese dance from the epic story of Ramayana.
Recent Performance[edit]
Sendratari Ramayana (2015)[edit]
In September 19, 2015 Godhong Maple Performed an epic story of Ramayana in the form of traditional Javanese Ballet.
Gradasi (2013)[edit]
In September 28, 2013 Godhong Maple took Brigantine Room [1] in Harbourfront, Toronto as a venue to celebrate the sixth year anniversary by performing a show case of Indonesian folk dances such as pendet, jaipong, manuk rawa, gondang dan saman.
- Pendet is a form of traditional dancing from Bali, Indonesia. It usually performed by young girl, carrying a bowl of flower petal. It usually use to greet the audience and welcome the audience in the Indonesian Hindu temple.
- Jaipong is a form of traditional dancing from West Java with the base movement of pencak silat or Indonesian traditional martial art and traditional Sundanese music.
- Manuk Rawa is a form of new traditional dance from Bali. It was founded by I Wayan Dibia in 1981. The name of Manuk rawa is translated into swamp bird, it usually performed by 5 to 7 female dancer. It is depicting a group of birds playing around and looking for a food in the swamp.[2]
- Gondang is a music ensemble native from one of the tribe in North Sumatra named Batak, this dance performed by a pair or two pairs (male and female), it usually performed to say "good bye" to audience in a special occasion.
- Saman is a form of traditional dance of the Gayo people in Aceh and the most popular dance performed by teen in Indonesia. Saman is basically perform by male and female with more than 5 people. The performer have to kneeling or sit on their heel in line, the dance is characterized in fast paced rhythm and coordination with harmony between performers.[3]
Citation[edit]
- ↑ Taylor, Paul Michael; Aragon, Lorraine V (1991). Beyond the Java Sea: Art of Indonesia's Outer Islands. Abrams. p. 10. ISBN 0-8109-3112-5. Search this book on
- ↑ "Tari Manuk Rawa". Kebudayaan Indonesia.net. Kebudayaan Indonesia. Retrieved 21 October 2015.
- ↑ "Saman Dance". unesco.org. UNESCO. Retrieved 21 October 2015.
External links[edit]
- Website (out of date)
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