| Summary: | This research aims at understanding the nature and origin of
Salonreng dance, and its symbolic meaning. The dance performed
in Accera� Ase ritual ceremony. The researcher observed and
recorded the performance in the field. Interviews about the dance
were conducted involving audiences, local community leaders,
dancers, and local artists of the community known as the basis of
the development of this dance.
Salonreng dance became known when the people of Gowa
Kingdom were still believed in animism and dynamism. This dance
performed to acknowledge respect to Batara, the god who rules
earth and heaven and respect to ancestors� spirits. The Salonreng
is an ancient dance, full of ritual nuances, and performed only on
special ceremony.
Based on structure and function analysis, it can be
concluded that Salonreng dance is closely attached to the rules of
the ritual ceremony. The dance is a part of the Accera� Ase ritual
ceremony itself. The dance functions to reinforce the ritual
ceremony, entertain the audience with esthetic performance. The
obedience of Makassar people to the rules of ritual ceremony make
the structure of this dance relatively static, particularly from the
point of entertainment. Salonreng dance is considered as a tool for
communication with spiritual world, which believed to have power
for maintaining the harmony between micro and macrocosms,
which is governed in line with the tradition of Makassar people.
The existence of Salonreng dance in the community of people
of Manggala district at the present time is supported by ritual
function. Symbolic meaning this Salonreng dance in Accera� Ase
ritual ceremony is a channel of communication between human
nature with the supernatural which is believed to affect to
kasannangngang pakmai, spiritual happiness for those who
perform.
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