Journal of Educational Studies
Vol. 3 No. 2 (2025): Agustus

Lifelong Arts Education and Social Interaction among Senior Women A Documentary-Video Study of Viatikara, Indonesia

Ujang Maulana Yusup (Indonesia University of Education)
Juju Masunah (Indonesia University of Education)
Ayo Sunaryo (Indonesia University of Education)
Trianti Nugraheni (Indonesia University of Education)
Rita Milyartini (Indonesia University of Education)



Article Info

Publish Date
31 Aug 2025

Abstract

This study examines how later-life arts competence becomes visible as adaptive participation within a shared social-artistic task in Viatikara, Bandung, Indonesia. A qualitative documentary-video case study analyzed a publicly disseminated 6 min 33 s reunion performance of Tari Pemetik Teh by event-designated senior women. Whole-video macro-analysis preceded three rule-based micro-analytic episodes. Manual temporal segmentation was primary, while Laban Movement Analysis-informed descriptors and screen-based ordinal movement-configuration coding described variation without claiming calibrated biomechanics. Across the video, dancers repeatedly reorganized formations while sustaining co-performance. The micro-episodes showed differences in level, reach, trunk use, support, rotation, and transition pacing while phrase order, direction, timing, and relations to neighboring dancers remained recognizable. Task-embedded social interaction was visible through mutual orientation, spacing adjustment, cue response, shared timing, and formation maintenance. The case supports adaptive participation as an educational pattern in which artistic coherence is preserved without bodily uniformity. Movement adaptability is proposed only as a hypothesis for future validation, not as a measured individual trait.

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JEs

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Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Social Sciences Other

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Journal of Educational Studies Journal constitutes a triannual publication which publishes scholarly journals every April, August, and December in a year. It particularly publishes research articles examining issues related to the field of Education, Sciences, Social, Early Childhood Education, ...