Dance Indonesian Jaipongan

Jaipongan is a genre of dance that was born from the creativity of an artist from Bandung, Gugum Gumbira. His attention to folk art, one of which is Tap Tilu know and know very well make Treasury dance movement patterns that exist in the tradition of Kliningan / Bajidoran or Tap Tilu. Motions openings, pencugan, nibakeun and several kinds of motion mincid of some art above have enough inspiration to develop a dance or art that is now known as Jaipongan.

Prior to this emerging form of performance art, there are several influences behind this form of social dance. 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 existence and pamogoran ronggeng. Ronggeng in social dance is no longer functioning for the ceremony, but for entertainment or slang way. Ronggeng existence in the performing arts have an attraction that invites sympathy for the pamogoran. For example on Tilu Tap dance is so well known by the Sundanese, estimated this art popular around the year 1916. As the folk performing arts, this art is supported only by simple elements, such as waditra which includes fiddle, drums, two kulanter, three percussion, and gongs. Similarly, the dance movements that do not have a standard pattern of motion, a simple costume dancer as a reflection of democracy.

Along with the waning of the above type of art, the former pamogoran (spectators who take an active role in the performing arts, Tap Tilu / Doger / Tayub) turned his attention to the performing arts Kliningan, which in the north coast of West Java (Karawang, Bekasi, Purwakarta, Indramayu, and Subang ) known as a pattern Kliningan Bajidoran dance performances and events have similarities with the previous art (Tap Tilu / Doger / Tayub). In the meantime, the existence of mask dances in Banjet quite popular, especially in Karachi, where some Bajidoran motion pattern taken from the dance in this Banjet mask. In koreografis dance it still reveals the patterns of tradition (Tap Tilu) that contains elements of the motions of the openings, pencugan, and some range of motion nibakeun mincid which in turn became the basis of the creation of dance Jaipongan. Some basic dance movements apart from the Tap Tilu Jaipongan, Ibing Bajidor and Mask Banjet is Tayuban and Matrial Art.

The emergence of dance works Gugum Gumbira initially called Tap Tilu development, which is because it is a basic dance from Tap Tilu development. The first work Gugum Gumbira still very thick with color ibing Tilu Tap, both in terms of choreography and iringannya, who then dance it became popularly known as Jaipongan.