Jaipongan Dance

Jaipongan Dance is a dance that originated from Bandung. Jaipongan is one of Indonesian Traditional Dances. And Bandung is one of the city in West Java province, Indonesia. As a social dance, Dance Jaipongan successfully developed by the artist dances are popular in the community Sunda and highly favored by the people of West Java (in particular), and even popular until outside West Java.





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Jaipongan Dance


Dance Jaipongan 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 1970′s.And Dance Jaipongan until today is still popular in the community.



Jaipongan Dance made by Gugum Gumbira


Dance Jaipongan made by Gugum Gumbira. Name Gugum Gumbira began to emerge in 1970, after he introduced the Jaipongan Dance. Armed with knowledge of this traditional art, dance movement Jaipongan finally created. However Jaipongan Dance he created was a modern dance, movement is essentially a movement taken from some traditional dance. Jaipongan Dance turns out a lot of rage not only among the Sundanese people, but also among other tribes in Indonesia, even among strangers though.
Jaipongan Dance is an interesting and important phenomenon


Jaipongan Dance is an interesting and important phenomenon in Sundanese dance vocabulary development. And it is not only fundamental to aesthetic ideas, but also in speech community against him. Late in the 1970s as the beginning Dance Jaipongan arising directly into a stunning trend. Not just a stage “mandatory” on-stage wedding stage in home residents, or also stage the day of Independence, 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.