Dance Bedhaya

Composition daughter dance classic Yogyakarta style is considered a heritage brought by the nine dancers princess-themed stories and legends, or historical chronicle.

     For example:

     - Bedhaya employer, which is the heritage of Mataram, described the meeting between Panembahan Senopati ancestors and Queen of South.

     - Madison Surgery Bedhaya Mataram depicting battle with Madison.

     Dance Bedhaya called because the dancers numbered Bedhaya sanga sanga or nine, a group dance composition princesses danced by nine female dancers.

     These include dance dance Bedhaya daughter subtle, sublime, and noble civilization, beautiful and rituals. Through dance Bedhaya the sultan's daughter trained and instilled education about ethics, manners and subtlety estitika by the sultan as stock living in the palace. According to the Chronicle nitik, Bedhaya is composed by Queen of South.

     At the time of Sultan Hamengku Buwana I dance Bedhaya he built it as a ritual dance palace. Called the ritual because there are certain requirements in its implementation. For example: the dancer must be holy (not menstruating), before the show should be fasting, the holy place in Ward Kencana, there are offerings, a certain time, there are leaders, and others.

     In general Beksan Bedhaya danced by nine young women who are prepared in accordance with the state of the human body. By its nature the sacred, the meaning of common Bedhaya take the philosophical meaning, socio-religious, ethical and moral, as well as the teachings of which are considered actual life. In a certain period of these aspects seem to have become hereditary standard concepts that underlie the concept of aesthetic and the concept of dance koreografis Bedhaya.