Tari Inai pada Upacara Malam Berinai Masyarakat Melayu di Kota Binjai : Analisis Struktur dan Makna

Abstract

This thesis titled Inai Dance At Night Ceremony Berinai Malay Community In The City Of Binjai : Analyzed Structure And Meaning. With this thesis, the author has analyzed two aspects of Inai Dance at berinai night ceremony in the context of the Malay traditional wedding ceremony in the city of Binjai. These two aspects are: (1). The structure of Inai Dance, dan (2). The meaning of Inai Dance inside the culture of Malay people in Binjai city the main purpose of this study was to analyze the Dance, and to analyze the meaning of the range of motion in this Inai Dance which is referred to berinai night ceremony in the context of the Malay traditional ceremony in the city of Binjai.

In This study, the writer used qualitative interpretative applied four critical theories, namely: Structure Dance Theory, Music Theory, Semiotic Theory and Signifying Theory.

The result from this analysis is to show the structure of Inai Dance consist of some aspects, those are the motion that consist of opening, content, and movement and has elevent range of motion which taken from the motion of silat Silat is a martial art in the Malay culture. Starts with free pattern, and then divided inti pair pattern, circle pattern, and the last was four direction pattern. The pattern concept of Inai Dance is free and varied. Musical accompaniment for Inai Dance used ensemble composed of violin and accordion with the melody, plus two ronggeng drum that consit of the main and sub drums with rentak music. The

song dan rentak that used patam-patam. The meaning of Inai Dance is to keep the

bride from supernatural disturbance that come from human or supernatural creature and the all of dance motions are to teach the process of the journey of life and event in the world to all society proponent.