The Performance of Theatre Mixed Text “Pembayun”: Open Boundary of Mise Ēn Scène and Its Meaning

Abstract

The Performance of Pembayun applies collaboration of performatively traditional and modern elements that form a mise en scène uniquely belongs to the group of Lembaga Teater Perempuan Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta Woman Theater. Theatrical contemporary performance requires a new form that is not only to revitalize tradition, but also to be closer and more reflecting to the needs of spectators. Pembayun is reflected as a multicultural performance from modern culture, the Mini Kata, and Javanese culture, Bedhaya Dance. The performance, presented at the crossing of ways of the culture and of artistic practices, creates an hybridization of tradition. There are three idioms from different cultures, i.e. Bedhaya Javanese Dance, the Mini Kata spontaneous gestures, and the gender ideology. Bedhaya has a pattern as well as choreography standard. Mini Kata produces an acting system of improvisation. The ideology of gender becomes an instrument for blending the mise en scène of the Bedhaya and the Mini Kata. The performance of Pembayun is a mixture of work with a controlled result yet still tied to the source of tradition.