Jaipongan

Jaipongan
Jaipongan is a dance that was born from the creativity of an artist from Bandung, gugum Gumbira. Attention to folk art one of them is making Tap Tilu know and recognize the patterns of traditional dance that is at Kliningan / or Tap Tilu Bajidoran. Opening movements, pencugan, nibakeun and several varieties of motion of several arts mincid above have enough inspiration to develop the art of dance or now known as Jaipongan.

Prior to this performance art form emerged, there are several influences behind this social dance form. In West Java, for example, social dance is the influence of the Ball Room, which is usually in a dance-dance association could not be separated from the existence and pamogoran ronggeng. Ronggeng in social dance is no longer functioning for ceremonial activities, but for entertainment or slang way. Existence ronggeng in the performing arts attraction that invites sympathy for the pamogoran. For example in Tilu Tap dance is so well known by the Sundanese people, is expected this art popular around the year 1916. As a folk performance art, art is only supported by simple elements, such as covering waditra fiddle, drums, kulanter two, three beats, and gongs. Similarly with tarinya gestures that do not have a standard pattern of motion, simple costumes dancer as a reflection of democracy.
Along with the waning of the above types of arts, former pamogoran (viewers who actively participate in performing arts, Tap Tilu / Doger / Tayub) turned his attention to Kliningan performing arts, which in the North Coast region of West Java (Karawang, Bekasi, Purwakarta, Indramayu, and Subang ) known as the pattern Kliningan Bajidoran or events tarinya show has similarities with the previous art (Tap Tilu / Doger / Tayub). In the meantime, the existence of dance in popular enough Banjet Mask, especially in Karachi, where some Bajidoran motion patterns taken from the dance in this Banjet mask. In still koreografis dance appeared patterns tradition (Tap Tilu) which contains elements of the opening gestures, pencugan, nibakeun and several kinds of motion mincid which in turn becomes the basis Jaipongan dance creation. Some of the basic movements of dance other than Tap Jaipongan Tilu, and Mask Ibing Bajidor is Tayuban Banjet and Pencak Silat.
The emergence of dance works Gumbira gugum originally called Tap Tilu development, which is due to a basic dance from Tap Tilu development. The first work gugum Gumbira still very thick with color Tilu ibing Tap, both in terms of choreography and accompaniment, who later became a popular dance called Jaipongan.

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