Jaipong
The jaipong or jaipongan is a style of Danse originating in the country Sunda, in the province Indonesia of Western Java. It was created with the beginning of the year 1970 with Bandung, capital administrative and cultural of the province, by a choreographer sundanais, Gugum Gumbira, in reaction to a prohibition by the president Soekarno in 1961 of the Western music, in particular the Rock-and-roll.
The jaipong is based on a style of village dance called ketuk tilu , which had bad reputation in the urban good company sundanaise because of its very suggestive movements. Launched in 1974, the jaipong was immediately an enormous success. Attempts, by certain Moslem mediums, to make it prohibit under pretext of immorality did nothing but make it still more popular.
Dance of company, the jaipong dances itself in particular at the time of marriages. It also became very popular like spectacle, that it is carried out by women, mixed couples or in solo.
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