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Wednesday, 5 November 2014

CANDLE DANCE IN PAHANG (TARI LILIN)




This unique dance origin from Sumatra and has a story during the presentation. Supposedly a beautiful girl was abandoned fiancee because he went to trade across assets. During she abandoned by her fiancee, the girl was losses the engagement ring. With sadness feeling, the girl looking for the ring, until late at night with a candle placed on the plate. The graceful body movements, bending, gaze upward (pray) to produce beauty of this event has spawned Candle Dance among the girls of the village.


During this dance, the dancers will bring a plate containing a candle and wearing a ring on her finger. While dancing he rang the rhythm of the dance with a ring on a finger tap to the plate in his hand. It’s require the expertise of someone to dance with tread plate set and cupped the glass plates were set earlier.





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