Character Education Values in the Basic Movement of Tuping Dance Armayyeni Nurillia Marsim 1 , * Mulyanto 2 , Sudiyanto 3 1,2,3 Graduate School of Sebelas Maret University, Surakarta, Indonesia * armayyeni7@gmail.com ABSTRACT Tuping dance is a dance originating from South Lampung which depicts army troops. This dance is usually performed during traditional celebrations in the South Lampung area, especially in Kuripan village, Penengah sub-district, South Lampung district. Tuping dance consists of 14 types of movements consisting of negakh, lelagoan, tikol, silat awal, cangget, tolak tebing, silat tikol, silat khalut, tepuk agas, lelagoan lapah, silat mundukh, ngelap bawah, buka topeng, dan mulang. This movement was adopted from the daily activities of the Tuping dancer troops who mingled with the community and also acted as scouts, so that the movement was dominated by Silat Lampung and was also inserted with funny movements. Tuping dance is a cultural product of the past that is continuously maintained and preserved by the local community. The preservation of this culture can be carried out through the cultivation of character education values contained therein. So that dancers can not only dance but can learn about good character. This study aims to identify the value of character education contained in the basic movements Tuping South Lampung dance. The methodology used is qualitative where data is obtained through observation, documentation, interviews, and literature study. The validity of the data used were source triangulation and informant reviews. From the results of the analysis, the researcher obtained 2 values of character education in the Tuping Lampung Selatan dance, namely: (1) the communicative value can be seen from the movements of Lelagoan and Lelagoan Lapah, and (2) the value of social care is found in the Cangget movement. Keywords: Tuping dance, basic movements, character education 1. INTRODUCTION Today's education is faced with the development of advances in information technology and is faced with very diverse social and cultural realities. Education is required to adapt to the circumstances of the surrounding community, where there are various kinds of deviations committed. Such as juvenile delinquency, fights between groups and various other deviant morals. In this case, education is expected to be a forum for fostering the younger generation by building character directly or indirectly. Character education in students can be carried out as early as possible, one of which is by inserting it into school learning. Dance learning in schools understands the value of dance education in accordance with the natural state of children who have a tendency to move and prefer good communicative language. Art education has its own characteristics that make it different from others, this is related to its characteristics, including multilingual, multidimensional and multicultural[1]. This educational value can also be used to instill character in children. Because character itself refers to a series of attitudes, behavior, motivation, skills, and shows how someone behaves[2]. Dance as a national education also has a function to develop the character and potential of students in accordance with the national character[3]. Character education expressed through the art of dance, Character education through traditional arts, in this case traditional dances, is expected to foster the mental and self-confidence of everyone so that it will indirectly form and develop the values contained in traditional dances that are maintained and implemented in everyday life. These values come from religion, Pancasila, culture and the goals of national education. The background of the importance of doing this research is the result of concern in managing the character of society which is increasingly rare and concerning. This condition causes most people to lose their identity. This social and cultural crisis was witnessed by many people. Decreased respect and Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research, Series Volume Number 534 Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Arts Language and Culture (ICALC 2020) Copyright © 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL. This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license -http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. 1