Traditional Dance of Minangkabau

The Piring Dance is very popular among the West Sumatran people. It involves great skill and exotic and dynamic movements while the dancers hold plates or saucers in their palms! It is also known as the Candle Dance. Randai Traditional Drama and Theatre of Kota Nan Ampat is a Minangkabau Traditional art centre and the drama there has an educational message. The Rantak dance is created by Gusmiati Said and is dominated by Pencak Silat, the traditional martial art of West Sumatra, with movements such as taping, hand movements, waving and jumping. The composition takes great consideration of space, time and energy (power) thus resulting in an entity presented as an art of expression. Tiupan Saluang is a traditional art expressing the feeling followed by the blowing flute, while the Tabuik Festival of Pariaman regency is a traditional cultural ceremony held on 1st - 12th Muharram. Tabuik comes from Bengkulu to respect Huse in (The grandson of Prophet Muhammad) who died in the war against King Yazid. Tari Payung or the umbrella dance is anothervery well known dance among the young people from the land of Minangkabau. Danced to the tune of "Babendi-bendi" (a song about a horse drawn carriage which is original to that area), this dance portrays the happy bantering between newly married couples on their honeymoon. The umbrella becomes a symbol that the husband should always protect his wife from the rain and heat of life. --------- For more information on workshops & training sessions for "Traditional Dances of Sumatra, Indonesia" --- EMAIL

L'aphabet Minangkabau

L'aphabet Minangkabau Dérivé fortement de l'arabe, cette écriture note la langue Minangkabau parlée dans l'île de Sumatra..

People, Dress, and Traditional

Minangkabau culture festival

Note : Girls wear Minangkabau traditional dress


The marriage womens with traditional dress for a cultural festival

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The marriage Minangkabau womens in a engaged ceremony

The Womens with traditional dress

The wedding couple "Anak Daro (for woman called)& Marapulai (for man called) with Pasumandan's (girls beside Anak daro and Marapulai)

Girls with traditional dress in a Cultural ceremony


Minangkabau Girls play Talempong (Traditional Music) at the car

The mens playing Pupuik and Gandang

Tabuik Celebrtion, in Pariaman. Usually Pariaman people make this celebration for celebrate Islam New Year ( 1 Muharam)

Randai (Traditional Dance)Players sitting near the beach

Minangkabau culture festival

Note : Girls wear Minangkabau traditional dress


The marriage womens with traditional dress for a cultural festival

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The marriage Minangkabau womens in a engaged ceremony

The Womens with traditional dress

The wedding couple "Anak Daro (for woman called)& Marapulai (for man called) with Pasumandan's (girls beside Anak daro and Marapulai)

Girls with traditional dress in a Cultural ceremony


Minangkabau Girls play Talempong (Traditional Music) at the car

The mens playing Pupuik and Gandang

Tabuik Celebrtion, in Pariaman. Usually Pariaman people make this celebration for celebrate Islam New Year ( 1 Muharam)

Randai (Traditional Dance)Players sitting near the beach

Sumatera Map

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A thirty-post traditional Minangkabau house in Nagari Koto nan Gadang, Lima Puluh Kota

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A thirty-post traditional Minangkabau house in Nagari Koto nan Gadang, Lima Puluh Kota