Dance Maengket

Tari Maengket

Maengket Minahasa people are traditional dances from ancient times until now still being developed and preserved. This dance is already there in the land of Minahasa Minahasa since people know in the fields of agriculture, especially rice.

if the first ancestors of Minahasa, dance Maengket only be played at the time of rice harvest with movements that only simple, so this time it has grown particularly dance dance forms without leaving their authenticity, especially poetry / literature lagunnya. Maengket dance consists of three parts, namely maowey kamberu, marambak and lalayaan.
Maowey kamberu is a dance that was delivered as a form of thanksgiving to Almighty God, because the harvest in the fields / in the garden are plentiful.

Marambak is a dance with the spirit mapalus (mutual assistance), in which case people will build houses Mihanasa if bekeraja always the same. and after his finish in the wake will be held "rumambak" or party of new homes rose. and all residents in the village was invited to ride home to test the strength of the house.

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