Sumberagung, Kecamatan Pesanggaran, on Saturday (20/8) and Sunday (21/8) looks quite busy. The sound of a set of gamelan sounds shrill and shrill. The sound of drums resonates with the sound of trumpets (srumpet) squeaky.
The gamelan from the musicians on the stage sounds quite cute. Six dancers wearing black costumes, Red, and yellow, and stout, seemed to enter the arena with a grim face.
The agility and graceful movements of the dancers make an interesting composition. The dancers who played the buto character, everyone rides a horse. The horse that rides it, all buto -headed, not a horse like a lumping horse.
In the middle of a dance to the accompaniment of gamelan, suddenly one of the dancers went into a trance and looked savage eating the flowers that were served for offerings. That possessed dancer, then use wholesale to dance and attack other dancers.
Until finally, there's a fight. Next, another dancer appears riding a piggy bank. Different from the buto jaranan dance, This piggy bank dancer looks more agile and agile. That scene was the initial appearance of the buto jaranan group.
The dancers are likened to a group of buto who want to hunt wild boars or in this dance they symbolize a piggy bank. In the middle of hunting in the forest, there's a giant dragon blocking the buto army. Instead of getting a boar, instead they have to fight with buto who will prey on the hunters.
There was a fierce battle, dragons or wholesalers are crazy and possessed by the buto using a whip. In that fight, the dragon or barongan can finally be defeated, Butos continue their hunt until they find a wild boar.
That's a cursory story in the art of Jaranan Buto. An art that is quite popular in the community, especially those in South Banyuwangi.
Every time there is a performance, always full of audience. Jaranan buto is the original art of Banyuwangi. Even though, This art cannot be separated from the jaranan in Trenggalek Regency. Resources on jaranan, it's quite diverse.
“The buto horse is the original art of Banyuwangi,"Said the chairman of the Buto Horse Association of Banyuwangi Regency, Kondang Suryaningrat. Jaranan Buto is the result of the creation of the artist Jaranan Banyuwangi. For the ranch, it comes from Trenggalek Regency.
This art entered Blambangan Earth around the year 1958. The one who brought the jaran from Trenggalek, is also Mat Lehar. According to Mat Lehar, the original Trenggalek, come to Banyuwangi and live in Dusun Tanjungrejo, Kebondalem Desa Village, Bangorejo District. In that new place, develop sengkler horses.
"Back then it was a horse riding a handsome horse, not scary like jaran buto," he explained. In developing the art of the jaranan, Also Mat Lehar has three students, namely Setro and Usik who live in Bangorejo Village, and Darmi who lives in Dusun Cemetuk, Cluring Village/District.
“Those disciples also develop the jaranan by making new creations,He said. In the development of that breed, in the year 1964, Setro succeeded in making a new creation from the jaranan from Trenggalek which was finally given the name jaranan buto. The buto horse is adapted to the culture and history of Bumi Blambangan.
"The creation of the buto jaranan is an amalgamation of the buto character which refers to Prabu Minak Jinggo"," he said. (radar)
