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  2. Pendet dance - Wikipedia

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    Pendet dancers offering a greeting. The original Pendet dance is performed by 4-5 young pre-pubescent girls in the yards of Balinese Hindu temples. Pendet is the presentation of an offering in the form of a ritual dance. Unlike sacred ritual dances that demand arduous training, Pendet may be danced by anyone, taught simply by imitation.

  3. 2009 Pendet controversy - Wikipedia

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    The advertisement was created by a private company in Singapore for Discovery Channel’s *Enigmatic Malaysia* program. [1] The incorrect label of Pendet as a Malaysian dance caused strong reactions in Indonesia, where cultural experts, government officials, and the tourism ministry demanded Malaysia explain the mistake.

  4. List of ethnic, regional, and folk dances by origin - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list with the most notable dances. Names of many Greek dances may be found spelt either ending with -o or with -os.This is due to the fact that the word for "dance" in Greek is a masculine noun, while the dance itself can also be referred to by a neuter adjective used substantively.

  5. Poco-poco - Wikipedia

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    Poco-poco or Poco poco is a popular line dance from North Maluku province in Indonesia.. The Poco-poco dance became popular in early 1998. In the beginning, the Poco-Poco dance was only an environment known for its emotional closeness with family, relatives, and relatives in North Maluku.

  6. Kancet Papatai - Wikipedia

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    In every appearance of the Kancet Papatai Dance, the man (or Ajai), is typically accompanied by a woman who expresses two different types of dance: . The Kancet Ledo dance, a dance by one woman which depicts "the gentleness of a girl as a piece of rice being gently blown by the wind". [4]

  7. Panyembrama - Wikipedia

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    To create what would become panyembrama, Beratha combined the most beautiful moves of traditional dances such as legong, condong, and pendet. [ 2 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Ethnomusicologist Zachar Laskewicz writes that the continued inspiration of these dances allows similar texts to be interpreted from the panyembrama performance. [ 7 ]

  8. Topeng dances - Wikipedia

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    Picture of Topeng dance performance accompanied by gamelan in Damar Wulan Manuscripts, 1770-1795 AD. A collection of the British Library. Topeng (from Balinese: ᬢᭀᬧᬾᬂ; Javanese: ꦠꦺꦴꦥꦺꦁ, romanized: topèng; [1] Sundanese: ᮒᮧᮕᮨᮔᮌ) is a dramatic form of Indonesian dance in which one or more mask-wearing ornately costumed performers interpret traditional ...

  9. Ngajat - Wikipedia

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    The history of Ngajat dance begins with the ancestors of the Iban community following the movements of the common hill myna and the great argus.According to an oral interview with an Iban people from Lubuk Antu, Sarawak, the ancestors of the Iban community dreamed of coming to a remote village.