"Ibing Pencug as a Play in the Badjidoran Performance" dalam RHYTHMS OF RESILIENCEProceeding International Djogja Earthsound Fest (IDEF 2024)a Harmony of Sounds and Nature (53-62)

This research aims to obtain clear and accurate data about the process of making the kesok-kesok musical bing pencug is a traditional Sundanese dance presented in the art of bajidoran in West Java. Ibing pencug is a traditional pantura-style dance, especially in Karawang and Subang. The distinctive feature of this ibingan is that the dance is performed improvised (spontaneous, sudden, so instantaneous, as it is), without any prior agreement between the dancer and the drummer regarding the structure, motif, variety, and pattern, both dance and karawitan (especially in tepak kendang). Professional and amateur dancers perform this improvised dance from the audience with various expressions of movement. This writing aims to understand another meaning of ibing pencug, namely, as a play. So far, ibing pencug has only been interpreted as a traditional Sundanese dance that only talks about artistic-aesthetics so that researchers have other interpretations of reality in general. A qualitative method with a case study approach is used in this study. Data collection techniques are done through observation, interviews, literature studies, and webtographs. The study's findings show that ibing pencug in bajidoran speaks of dance as artistic-aesthetic and presents another meaning, namely as a play performed by artists, even though they are unaware of it. This research concludes that art is artistic-aesthetic and has another meaning: as a play (art as a play)