In the middle of
crowded and the most advanced city in Indonesia, there was a boy. He had a big
passion about traditional dance. He knew all kind of traditional dance from
Indonesia. Nothing could stop this boy from dancing. He had minor taste of
music; unlike his friends, his friends like modern music and dance. He was a
high school student, and he was a senior in a traditional dance class. He loved
to dance Reog Ponorogo.
“Hey Ardi! Its time for us to go to
the canteen? Aren’t you hungry or something? My stomach can’t stand no more and
I can eat a horse” Said Agung, Ardi’s friend.
“Just wait a minute, I’m trying to
finish this dance.” Said Ardi.
Yes! His name is Ardi. He doesn’t
think anything but dance, dance and dance. He doesn’t think about when raining,
or cloudy or storm. He dance, dance and dance. Dancing is his soul. In fact,
his friend thought he would keep dancing after the end of the day.
10 Minutes later…
“Done!” Ardi shouted.
“Should we go to the canteen now? Hurry
up, I’m starving to death you know…” Agung bagged.
On the way to the canteen, Ardi
heard a music. Suddenly, he looked for that music came.
“Hi, what kind music is this? It
makes me want to dance. By the way, I’m Ardi.” Said Ardi.
“It’s dubstep. I’m Roy!” answered
Roy.
If Ardi heard a music, any music, he
suddenly without a reason started to dance. So, he danced! Don’t know what he
danced but he believed those are the modern dance. He didn’t know modern dance so
well, all he knew was traditional dance. So, don’t be surprised if that dance
is not quite good.
The song ended, he shown up his
favorite song and started the song from the cassette player. The song started,
and he started to dance Reog, AGAIN! His eyes showed us his soul, his passion
about Reog. He danced about 15 minutes, and his friends only looked at him and
didn’t say a word. Suddenly..
“Stop this music!”, Roy shouted
suddenly.
“I admit your
modern dance is good.. A little bit good, but… Your second dance is terrifying!
I can’t stand it anymore!” Said Roy.
“Well, it seems you don’t like
traditional dance. But, why you hate our dance?” Ardi Asked.
“There is so many cool song out
there, but why traditional?” Roy replied.
“But this is our heritage…” Said
Ardi.
“Forget that heritage!! What about a
competition and the audience will decide it who will be the winner? And, the
loser must obey what the winner said. And it takes place in my father event. Do
you dare to accept it?”
“A competition? Alright! I accept!”
Ardi agreed and shaked Roy’s hand.
Ardi decided to accept the challenge
Roy gave, and he practiced about a month. Even when he was in the shower, he
still practiced. And when he was in school, he still didn’t focus and just
thought the competition.
In fact, Ardi scared of losing. Ardi
would be embarrassed, and his friends would also mock him. But he tried not to
be scared. He stayed strong and still
eager to face his challenger, Roy. He also wanted to show how important to kept
Indonesian heritage. He did it for Indonesia.
“Why are you so serious about this
challenge, Ardi?”, Agung asked.
“I want to show him that traditional
dance must be remembered and not be forgotten. We are Indonesian, we must keep
our heritage!”,said Ardi.
“You are right, but you will be
embarrassed if you don’t win.”, said Agung.
“Indonesian should be embarrassed if
this heritage gone. I don’t care about myself, I care about Indonesia, I want my
child and grandchild know what our heritage are.”, Ardi replied.
Agung stayed quiet and his head nodded
that showed he was agreed about what Ardi said.
The day came. Ardi was ready than
ever. He put his dancing clothe to his backpack. He asked his parents blessing.
He walked to the decided place.
“You
will lose, Ardi. There is so many famous dancers here.”, said Roy looked down
on Ardi
“When
you started to be an oracle? Hahaha… Don’t be cocky, let just see. You will be
embarrassed”, Ardi answered with his believe that he would do the best.
Roy
left with his annoyed face. Ardi went to the backstage because the show would
be started 15 minutes until the performance. Roy performed first, so Ardi can
learn about the battlefield.
After
15 minutes, Roy performed. Ardi saw Roy’s movements and it was so good and
smooth. Because of his movements, he attracted almost all the audiences. Ardi
can sense the Roy’s charm because his amazing movements.
It’s
time to Ardi’s turn. Ardi performed Reog Ponorogo dance. He danced with pride
which didn’t care for the winning or losing. He only cared about how to make
the audiences smile and he wanted to show how beautiful and gorgeous our
traditional dancing is.
The
dancing has finished in 7 minutes and it was the seven minutes of pride. Ardi
stared at the audiences and saw his fellow’s friends in the back row. Everyone
didn’t realized that the performance has ended. Ardi stooped his body. Suddenly,
everyone gave an amazing applause to Ardi.
Finally,
the all the performances finished, all those two performances got on the stage.
The MC told the audiences to vote by giving applause. Ardi seems a little
nervous because he had a little bit mistaken in his dancing. Roy seems
confident, like he knew he was the winner. Ardi’s heart beat fast, he was
worried. Then, the MC asked the audiences.
“Where
is the sound of Roy?!”, The MC asked the audiences to give applause. Everyone
gave a loud applause to Roy. Yet, Roy became more confident about his self that
he would be the winner.
“See,
you might lose Ardi. Just wait it…”Roy Mocked.
“Don’t
be too confident about yourself, Roy...” Ardi whispered.
“And
now, where is the sound for Ardi..?!”, The MC asked the audience again.
Everyone gave applause to Ardi louder than Roy. Roy’s face was shrunken, he
thought he would lose. Ardi’s face seems happy. But he didn’t want to be cocky
about it. He just wanted to wait the MC said whose the winner is.
“Alright!
I think we have decided the winner..”, the MC said and suddenly, everyone was
quite and impatient to hear the winner of the competition.
“And
the winner goes to…”
“Poor
me, I might lose.. “ Roy said in his mind.
“Goes
too… Ardi!!! Let’s give him a big and louder applause again for him!”, the MC
finally decided whose the winner is. Ardi went to the stage and everyone gave a
big applause for him.
“Thank
you, thank you..” Before he finished his speech, Roy ran away from the stage
suddenly. Ardi didn’t know what to do. He was worried that he would go ran
after him or he would continue his speech. Then, he decided to continue.
“Thank
you, I don’t know what to say. But, I am proud of you because you rather choose
Indonesian dance than modern dance. As we know, our heritage is dissolving.
Why? because many Indonesian choose modern then traditional. We have to save
our heritage and keep it!” Ardi seems confident about it, and the audience
sensed the passion of Ardi about traditional dance.
Later
that day, there was something different between Ardi and Roy. Roys seems upset
because he lost his own competition. He knew each other but they acted like they
never knew, like a stranger. One day, as always Ardi went to the canteen to
fill his stomach. On the way to the canteen, he heard the music of Roy. He took
a peek through the window, he saw Roy in the class. He felt guilty because he was
embarrassed him. He went through the room and Roy seems to ignore Ardi.
“Hey
Roy, what’s the matter with you? It’s just a competition.”, said Ardi, but Roy
seems quite and didn’t answer Ardi’s question.
“Hey
Roy, I’m talking to you..”
“What
do you want? You beat me, and now I’m embarrassed. Ok, you can give an order. I
will obey it..!”, answered Roy weakly.
“No,
I don’t want it. I accepted your challenge because I can’t stand if you keep
mocking our heritage. I want to keep our heritage, so I want to tell everybody
about our great heritage. I want everyone keeps and conserves our heritage.
That’s all!”, said Ardi.
“Uhm..
I guess you are right, and I’m wrong about it. I’m sorry Ardi. I’m embarrassed not
to be a good Indonesian.”
“Yeah!
We are Indonesian, and we are supposed to keep this great heritage from now.
Who else will keep this heritage except us? Huh? Who? We are!!!”
Since
then Ardi and Roy became best friends ever. They got along together, they mixed
traditional and modern dance. Roy stopped mocking about the traditional dance
at all. Roy realized how important to keep Indonesian heritage is. Who else
will keep this heritage? They? No! Who? We! We will keep this great Indonesian
heritage!!
The
End…
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Amirul
Syahrul_20130386_SMA IT AL IRSYAD PURWOKERTO
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