Anjun Dance Attraction: Pottery Inspiration of Sitiwinangun Tourism Village Cirebon Indonesia

The purpose of this article is to describe the creative process of Anjun dance attraction. Anjun dance was created based on inspiration from pottery craftsman creativity in the tourism village of Sitiwinangun Cirebon Indonesia. The creation of this dance uses the method of creativity and prioritizes imaginative thoughts related to feeling, living, imagining, and finally finding something essential which could transform an ordinary to a remarkable creation for its society. Creativity of Sitiwinangun society in making pottery product can be used as ideas and creative processes of performance art. This dance performance is an effort to empower the pottery craftsmen and develop potential in the field of community dance. The results of this creation explain the creative process of Anjun Dance, part of the process of assisting the tourism village of Sitiwinangun. The pattern of Anjun dance attraction uses floor pattern and dynamic movement that depict the people of Sitiwinangun as pottery craftsmen. The floor pattern begins with ten dancers entering performance arena by carrying a pottery bowl which is then followed by numbers of dancers circling the middle dancer. This pattern describes the community as pedestal symbol of pottery producer. The attraction of Anjun dance performance results in an attraction which is distinctive for tourism village of Sitiwinangun.