ARTICLE : ARTIST CULTURE DANCE ACEH THEMPOPED

Indonesian culture is very different from western culture because of the differences of experience, belief, religion, and Indonesia itself has a different cultural culture. This makes Indonesia a complex country and therefore the country is attractive. Religion plays a very important role in Indonesian society and the daily life of its inhabitants. Indonesia is a country with the largest Muslim population in the world. Islam is also a culture of the archipelago has been going on since a few centuries ago. The process of accultration between Islamic values ​​entering through trade channels with elements of local culture produces a character unique to the culture of Muslim communities in Indonesia.
Hi children of Indonesia, have we recognize the culture of the region itself ?, buadya Aceh one of them. Viewed from the side of Aceh culture has a unique culture and diverse. The Acehnese community system, the livelihood of most aceh peoples is farming but not a few traders, the Aceh community kinship system recognizes the Wali, Karong and Kaom who are part of kinship.
The uniqueness of Acehnese arts, of the many dances from Indonesia Saman dance is one of the most popular culture, not only in Indonesia even already known to foreign countries in staging in various foreign countries, a unique and interesting movement to amaze every eye that witnessed the beauty of the movement, cohesiveness, as well as the harmonious strains of the song with the choir that accompanied the dancers' movements

Islamic culture is also able to change some basic movements on saman dance, with the creativity of saman art movements ranging from clapping hands to changes in the seats of the dancers. Harmonization of the dance movements that are so fast with the poems that accompany it is an allure that makes the audience fascinated by the beauty of the movement. For the sung song or poem that contains the advice and the proverb, has a deep and thick meaning that contains the moral message, compactness, togetherness, and the heroism of aceh religious community with the teachings of Islam that will be impregnated by anyone who heard it. With deep meaning and no wonder if this saman dance is often featured in big events.
Harmony and Saman Dance
Amazing movements make this dance so stomping and energizing. There are two basic motion elements available in the saman dance that is clapping hands and chest clapping. And it usually consists of one or two "Sheikhs" that will boost the poems and occasionally accompanied by the sound of dancers. Uniformity and timeliness are a must in performing dance, so dancers must have high concentration and serious training in order to perform perfectly.
Another uniqueness of this saman dance art is the sitting position of the dancers and the wobble of the body that is knocked left and right when the poems are in doubt. Saman dance is usually played by men and the number must be odd, but the series of development of buadya, saman dance is also played also by women or a mixture of women and men with other modifications of motion.