TEK TOK DANCE A BALINESE PERFORMING ART-BASED TOURIST ATTRACTION (original) (raw)

This present study was intended to identify the factors contributing to the ideology of the creation of Tek Tok Dance, and its implications on the tourist agencies and the people living at Ubud Village. To this end, the target of the study is the Tek Tok Dance performed at Ubud Village. The study was conducted at Ubud Village to explore (1) the factors contributing to the creation of Tek Tok Dance; (2) the ideology contributing to such a performance; and (3) its implications on the tourist agencies and the people living at Ubud Village. The study used the qualitative method. The result of the study showed that the factors contributing to the creation of Tek Tok Dance were aesthetics and social economy (tourism). The dance was created as tourism needed it. The main objective was to attain financial benefit, meaning that the ideology which played an important role in its creation was the capitalistic ideology. Its implications included multi dimensions such as socioeconomic and cultural domains. The development of the tourist industry at Ubud had encouraged the tourist agencies to develop the cultural potentials with the people living at Ubud had.