Pak Wahyu Santoso Prabowo created this dance fragment partly out of a desire to have a female example of kiprahan movements and sexually-charged gandrungan movements (which is culturally/stereotypically non-feminine)—neither of which existed in the classical Central Javanese dance world yet. He chose the character Sarpakenaka of the Ramayana, as she would fit these types of movements and there was no treatment of her yet in the dance world as a main character.