Tari Piring Kubu Durian (Pencak Silat)

[psutan]

The story that i was told was that during the war Pencak Silat was forbidden. The enemy would not allow practising they considered it dangerous. So the people started to make dancing moves to cover up the silat. But it's also used to misled your opponent.

[RealBadrul]

Pencak silat is not only for fighting... :-) Peace. Salaaam.

[faRahGT]

..i thought pencak silat is a fighting technique..?

[Ketrin01]

I think its somewhere i between fighting technique and dance, -at least you need musik for it. In Brazil they have capoeira, in Indonesia they have pencak silat.

[wrikudoro]

yes it is. but often it was developed into dance too. to make it more interesting for newbie.

[xrainisfallingx]

does anyone know any source about the history of this dance? i need it for my school project

[alanjenlien]

does anyone know what the green horn is called?

[psutan]

yes its called: tupuik padi

usually it is made out of banana leaves with a fresh padi

[lakikul]

bukan "pupuik sarunai" yah namanya..??apa cuma beda nama karena beda bahasa..??itu daunnya bukan dari daun kelapa..??

[psutan]

eum... nederlands begrijp ik beter :-)

[palimobasa]

in Canduang, Bukittinggi West Sumatra its called "ole-ole"

[turdtrousers]

This is typical Sumateran plate dance. It is rather different to Javanese in terms of tempo and style- a reflection of the superior Javanese being court-based culture with greater refinement and grace of movement. Mingangkabau, Batak etc are considered cruder, more village-like and too Islamiyah (like Arab) as it much closer to Malay who worship the peasant Arab. This female dancing would be considered most uncouth in Java- but is good representation of Sumatran.

[mikesatu]

very typically jawa-centric turdtrousers. maybe most of the turds are in your brain rather than your trousers. without us peasants from Sumatera who would feed the nation?

[senantiasa]

First of all, there are no dances that are Islamiyah. Islam is a religion, it teaches many things, but not dances!

Second, Minang dances are not in anyway similar to Arabic dances.

Third, to each his own. I'm not Minang, but I have to defend. Javanese dances are slow and boring. So to me Minang dances are superior to Javanese dances! I'm saying this just to counter what you said, not because I have no manners like you. I just hope you're not Javanese, because if you are, you're disgusting!

[thelawnet]

um, Batak are nearly all Christian, and are far less Islamic than Javanese, who have been exposed to Islam for many centuries. Batak and Batak Karo dances are very different from this style in any case.

[venomscorpion]

@turdtrousers, I'm not javanese and I'm not Sumateran either, but surely your point of view show us how narrow-minded you are. You don't even realised that Batak dance are nowhere near Islamic culture. You even forgot that not all Javanese dances are graceful. BTW, most Javanese are peasants, and the Arabs mostly are traders. Learn the facts before you're mumbling foolishly. Shame on you.

[puticarabao]

Awesome video. Thanks for posting it. When one is involved in the pursuit of the combat arts the culture must be taught with it. Combat without culture is brutality.

[cimande67]

Thank You for sharing the culture of West Sumatra!!! Very nice...

[kirvin2]

This is a different bowl dance than taught by my Guru from Java. Thanks for sharing. Very nice.

[psutan]

Do the Javanese have similair moves? Or can we say that their are typical javanese tari piring and typical sumatran tari piring? The rings are shells from a nut. It's very difficult to follow the tempo of the music and hitting the nuts on the plates and also doing the moves :-)

[kirvin2]

There are similar hand movements. There is also more complicated footwork and twists of the torso. The dancer also does forward rolls or somersaults on the ground etc. There is no object of hitting nuts on plates.

[senantiasa]

There is no Javanese Tari Piring, however there are different versions of Tari Piring. Many dance Gurus from all over Indonesia know the dances from other parts of Indonesia, so it's not surprising that a Javanese dance guru knows a Minang dance. If you asked Indonesians who graduated with a degree in dancing, they'll most likely know dances from other ethnic groups in Indonesia.

[ThePupil]

nice to see how this is made with what kind of instruments.

[senantiasa]

They also wear rings on their fingers that they hit against the plates to make the clinking sound.

[psutan]

I'm happy you like it. Maybe i will post some more :-)

[brseavey]

Nice. Thank you for sharing this.