Kecak Dance

In Bali there is a kind of dance that is quite unique, and is played mainly by men in which the number of players in the tens or more dancers who sit in line and a circle with a specific rhythm called the sound "cak"as he raised his hands. It is described as rows of apes help fight Ravana Rama in the Ramayana.

Kecak Sanghyang ritual comes from, that is the tradition in which the dancers will be unconscious for communicating with the gods, or spirits of the ancestors who then convey its expectations to the public. In the Kecak dance does not use musical instruments and using only kincringan imposed on the feet of the dancers who are playing characters of Ramayana. While the dancers in the circle wearing a checkered cloth wrapped around their waists.

Kecak Dance is in creating in the 1930s by Wayan Limbak and with a German painter Walter Spies. They create a dance based on ancient sanghyang tradition and take from other parts of the Ramayana. This dance became popular when Wayan Balinese dancers Limbak with his tour around the world to introduce the Kecak dance. Until now dance a dance Kecak famous Balinese art.

Tari Jaipong

Tari jaipong is a genre of dance that was born from the creativity of an artist's home
Bandung, Gugum Gumbira. Attention to folk art, one of which is
Tap Tilu making it knows and knows well patterns
dance traditions that exist in Kliningan / Bajidoran or Tap Tilu. Motions
openings, pencugan, nibakeun and several kinds of motion mincid of several arts in
above have enough inspiration to develop a dance or art that is now known
Jaipongan name. As a social dance, dance Jaipong successfully developed
by Artists of Sunda dances are popular in the community and highly favored by
West Java community (in particular), and even popular until outside West Java.

Tari Jaipong actually will not only remind people
on a kind of attractive traditional Sundanese dance with motion
dynamic. Hands, shoulders, and hips always been a dominant part
in the pattern of the agile movement, accompanied by beating drums. Especially
the female dancers, all of it is always accompanied with a smile
sweet and cast in the eye. This is the kind of social dance in
Sundanese dance tradition that emerged in the late 1970s that until
Today its popularity is still living in the community.

Tari Jaipong is an interesting and important phenomenon in
Sundanese dance vocabulary development and it is not only fundamental to
diusungnya aesthetic ideas, but also on how
then this dance makes its own phenomena upon greeting
community against him. Late in the 1970s as the beginning
Jaipongan arising directly into a stunning trend.
Not just a stage "mandatory" on-stage wedding stage in
home residents, or 17 Agustusan stage, but also even
up to a prestigious stage. From start to hotels to attractions
Other large ceremonial performances, and even crossed the globe to
various countries as a mission of art.