READING COMPREHENSION
TOR-TOR DANCE
Tor Tor
Dance is a dance that moves a rhythm with the music (Margondang) which played
by traditional musical instruments such as gondang, flute, trumpet hobo, and
others.
According to the history of dance tor-tor used in rituals associated with spirits, where the spirits are summoned and "enter" into the stone statues (a symbol of the ancestors), then the statue was moved like dancing but his movements stiff. The movement involves movement of the feet (tiptoe-tiptoe) and hand movements.
Types of dance tor-tor also vary, there is the so-called tortor Pangurason (dance cleaning). This dance is usually held at a large party, whichever is first cleaned the place and location of the party before the party began to far from danger by using lime. There is also tor-tor Sipitu Grail (Dance of the seven bowls). This dance is usually held during the inauguration of a king, this dance also came from 7 women who bathe in a heaven on top of a mountain lake in conjunction with the arrival pusuk Buhit piso sipitu sasarung (seven knife sheaths). Then tor-tor Single Panaluan is a cultural ritual. Usually held if a disaster-stricken village, then the date panaluan danced by the shaman to be guided solutions to resolve the issue. For a single stick is a blend magic panaluan Debata Natolu namely Banua Gijjang (Upper World), Banua Tonga (Middle-earth) and Banua Toru (World below).
Tor-Tor on today for the Batak are no longer just assumed with the spirit world, but it became an art because the Tor-Tor into the culture of indigenous people in each activity Batak.
According to the history of dance tor-tor used in rituals associated with spirits, where the spirits are summoned and "enter" into the stone statues (a symbol of the ancestors), then the statue was moved like dancing but his movements stiff. The movement involves movement of the feet (tiptoe-tiptoe) and hand movements.
Types of dance tor-tor also vary, there is the so-called tortor Pangurason (dance cleaning). This dance is usually held at a large party, whichever is first cleaned the place and location of the party before the party began to far from danger by using lime. There is also tor-tor Sipitu Grail (Dance of the seven bowls). This dance is usually held during the inauguration of a king, this dance also came from 7 women who bathe in a heaven on top of a mountain lake in conjunction with the arrival pusuk Buhit piso sipitu sasarung (seven knife sheaths). Then tor-tor Single Panaluan is a cultural ritual. Usually held if a disaster-stricken village, then the date panaluan danced by the shaman to be guided solutions to resolve the issue. For a single stick is a blend magic panaluan Debata Natolu namely Banua Gijjang (Upper World), Banua Tonga (Middle-earth) and Banua Toru (World below).
Tor-Tor on today for the Batak are no longer just assumed with the spirit world, but it became an art because the Tor-Tor into the culture of indigenous people in each activity Batak.
Source: http://www.lintangbuanatours.com
LIST OF VOCABULARY
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Associated : menghubungkan
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Summoned : memanggil
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Statues : patung
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Stiff : mayat
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Involves : malibatkan
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Lime : kapur
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Inauguration : pelantikan
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Bathe : memandikan
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Stricken : penemuan
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Shaman : sihir
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Resolve : ketetapan hati
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Assumed : pura-pura
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Indigenous : pribumi
EXERCISE
1. What
is the purpose of the text?
2. What
is the main idea of the first paragraph?
3. How
many types of tor-tor dance?
4. When
does the tortor
Pangurason always hold?
5. Why
does tor-tor become one of an art in Batak?
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