Dance Culture Customs of Aceh

in #culturevulture7 years ago

hello steemians
on this occasion I will share several pictures of indigenous dances of aceh which I took in the area where I live'



Rapai is one tool tabuh art from Aceh. Rapai (tambourine) was divided to several game types, one of whom geleng rapai. Rapai Geleng developed by an anonymous South Aceh. Rapai Geleng game also included dance moves that symbolized the uniformity in terms of cooperation, togetherness, and full of compactness in the environmental community.
Terian is expressing dynamics of society in a verse (the songs) are sung, and the basic motion kustum from elements of the dance meuseukat.

The function of this dance is a religious order, instilling moral values to the community, and also describes how lived in social communities. Rapai geleng first developed in 1965 on the coast. That moment Dance Rapai Geleng in bring at the time fill a void of time students are learning over saturated. Then, the dance was a means of Dawah since it can make charms the audience very much.

This type of dance is intended for men. Usually that play this dance there are 12 men who have been trained. Poetry performed is the dissemination to the public of how the life of community, religious and solidarity which uphold high.




Costumes worn pink, yellow red beads chime, unison menggeprak stage with sitting cross-legged. His move followed WaSP rapai rhythmic one-one long, slow, then turned quickly in the accompanied by gestures still seated cross-legged, swerved to the left and to the right. The movement quickly exacerbated the growing old fast.

Basically, the motion on the dance rhythms rapai geleng only consists in four levels; slow, fast, very fast and silent Fourth such motion levels. is a miniature society characteristics that inhabit a position most tip of the island of Sumatra, containing messages of the pattern of resistance to all forms of assault on the existence the life of the religious, political, social and cultural.









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