Creating Dance with Children Based on Traditional Games

Abstract

—Inseminating the values of education to the early children in advance is one mean of solution that should become a major concern and important part of the current Education policy system. The creation of a work entitled Creating Traditional Games with Children is an effort of collaboration in arranging activities involving children. Knowing children's behaviour now looks less controlled and has less desirable personality, lacks of good manners and ethics, influenced by the negative effect of technology, as a result, traditional games began to be marginalized because it was oppressed by the presence of modern game products. Through this form of traditional games, it is hoped that educational values can be embedded and can influence children's behaviour, therefore the dance works creation will be focused on finding the answers to the questions. "How far the concepts and methods can strengthen the insemination of educational values and as a medium of dance creativity created with children while learning through play for elementary school age?" The method used in the creation of this work is the Ngemong method, which develops the concept of Ki Hajar Dewantara, which is a concept of mentoring method that implements the idea of Ing Ngarsa Sung Tulada, Ing Madya Mangun Karsa, Tut Wuri Handayani , so it could give positive the impact on the subsequent mental development of children. This work creation departs from a study using observation, literature studies, interviews and documentation studies. The results of this study are expected to have the following contribution: (1) The form of traditional games can strengthen the cultivation of values of education which are now almost unknown by children, since children are more familiar with the form of modern and sophisticated games. (2) The form of traditional games can be a bridge to dance creativity media and can be used as a reference for the development of flexible and conditional dance learning models.