| Description |
Video Casette#1: Various Performances - Wutung, Tabaran Kakakau, Choir, Bands and Performance of A Vutung Dance, Tabaran Kakakau, Duke of York women’s dance.
The Tolai folk songs and dancing have been a form of entertainment and spiritual enlightenment and performance. A song is known as "kakailai" and dance is "malagene". Composition of a song is called "pinipit" and the composer is known as "tena pinipit" or "tena buai".
The composers of songs related to dances are knowledgeable in choreography and composition of songs.
There are various types of song and dance based on life experiences, events, the environment, birds and animals, and human interactions.
Traditional Tolai songs and dances may be performed by both males and females together while others are restricted to one gender.
Traditional instrument used for beats, rhythm for the song and dance are kundu (hollow wooden drum with lizard skin), pakupak (slit bamboo) and tidir (bamboo or wooden sticks). The garamut (wooden slit drum) beaten by cane sticks and wooden stick depending on type or dance are mainly for tubuan or more special ceremonies.
Generally, the typical male, female or combined traditional Tolai song and dance types of performances are;
1. Mix (Male and female): Libung, Bilolo
2. Female: Wutung, Parpari, Patete
3. Male: Perapere, Kulau, Pinpidik, Tabaran, Tubuan
(Steven Gagau, October 2019) |
| Cite as |
Michael Webb (collector), Various - Anonymous Various - Anonymous (performer), Steven Gagau (data_inputter), Michael Webb (recorder), 1993. Melanesian Spearhead Group Summit - Various Dance, Choir & Music Performances, Rabaul. MP4/MXF. MW6-052 at catalog.paradisec.org.au. https://dx.doi.org/10.26278/KX3F-QY71 |
