Tradisional Dance of Sunda

Sundanese Dance 

Ronggeng Gunung

Ronggeng Gunung is a one of the Sundanese dancing tradition which is originally came from Ciamis, west java-Indonesia. It's usually performed when some of the resident have a merriage ceremony at their frontyard, but it's also performed when the farmer had began to planting the paddies at the rice field. The duration of Ronggeng Gunung performed was a little bit longger than usual, it is begin from the afternoon and has stopped at the after midnight. The person which played for this dance is a women, and evenly it had six and up to teen persons, it called great perform if the person who player is an older women.

Tari Wayang

Tari Wayang became known during the Sultanate of Cirebon society in the 16th century by Sheikh Sharif Hidayatullah, which spreading by the roving artists who came to the area Sumedang, Garut, Bogor, Bandung and Tasikmalaya.

Jaipongan

This dance was created by an artist from Bandung, Gugum Gumbira, around 1960, with the aim of creating a type of music and dance association excavated from the wealth of folk art traditions of the archipelago, especially in West Java. Although this dance relatively is new creations, jaipongan developed based on folk art that has been developed previously, such as Ketuk Tilu, Kliningan, and Ronggeng

Tari dan Ibing Pencak Silat

Is one of the aspect that is more important martial arts for the Pencak Silat, which is more popular in West Java as ibing, but not a few people mention that this Pncak Silat aspect with Tari Pencak Silat, in fact actually that the term of Ibing Pencak Silat with the term of Tari Pencak Silat
has a different meaning. Ibing Pencak Silat has a more profound understanding than dance of Pencak Silat which is called Tari Pencak Silat it self, because in addition to existing Ibing Pencak Silat motion element of beauty in it, has the ultimate goal to knock your opponent, so that the elements of Ibing Pencak Silat more prominent. While the term of dance or Tari Pencak Silat is more emphasis on the elements of the beauty of dancing, such as dance that we often see.

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