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Piring Dance is very popular among the West Sumatra people. It consists of a skill in an exotic and dynamic movement while the dancers are having plates or saucers in their palms! It is also famously called Candle Dance.
Randai Traditional Drama and Theatre of Kota Nan Ampat a Minangkabau Traditional art and the drama has an educational message, while Rantak dance is created by Gusmiati Said and is dominated by Pencak Silat movement, taping, hand movements, waving and jumping. It is explored from the dynamic movements of the Minangkabau Pencak Silat. 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 culture and art 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.
A very 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 in 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.