Gunungsari Dance

Malang Mask Dance Style

In the Malang mask story, Gunung Sari was the name of a noble who came from the Kediri kingdom. He was the brother from Dewi Galuh Candra Kirana.

The movement of Gunung Sari dance described himself was putting on makeup as well as admiring himself as a good looking noble. The movements of this dance often copied the movement of peacock birds that were dancing with the wings decoration and his hair that were lovely, so as the name of the movement of this dance often resembled the movement of peacock birds,
for example;

the merak ngombe (drinking peacock) ,
Merak ngigel (trembling the wings), merak miber (the flying peacock ) and so on. In the series the performance of this Malang mask drama, Gunung Sari appearance was always accompanied by a servant, who had a name demang Potrojoyo. This Potrojoyo mask did not have mouth so as the dancer Potrojoyo could speak by himself.

At this scene, Potrojoyo held a dialogue and always made the joke with Gunung Sari. Gunung Sari asked Potrojoyo to give examples of the movement imitated something. This movement will afterwards be developed into a kind pantomime that was accompanied with music (gending).

The example of the game movement of the Gunung Sari and Potrojoyo; Gambuh Moro Sebo, Jalak kecancang, biyada mususi, the mouse ngunggak salang, pengantin purik, and so on.