Maengket dance - Minahasa North Sulawesi

 

Maengket already exist in the land of Minahasa Minahasa since people know agriculture mainly growing rice in the fields. If the first Minahasa Ancestors, Maengket only played at the rice harvest with movements that are just simple, it now has grown particularly Maengket dance forms and dance without leaving their authenticity, especially poetry / literary songs. Maengket consists of three rounds, namely: - Maowey Kamberu - Marambak - Lalayaan. Maowey Kamberu is a dance that brought on the show thanksgiving to God the Almighty, in which agricultural products especially rice plant a double / lot. Marambak is a dance with a spirit of cooperativeness, the people of Minahasa Auxiliary helps make a new home. Finished houses are built then the party held up a new home or in local language called "rumambak" or test the strength of the new house and invited all the village community in thanksgiving. Lalayaan is a dance that symbolizes how the youth of old Minahasa will find their soul mate. This dance is also called the youth social dance time immemorial in Minahasa.