Assignment 01: Traditional dance from Minangkabau - Sumatra Barat

Plate Dance - Tari Piring

Plate Dance or the Minangkabau language called Piriang Dance is one art of dance in the traditional Minangkabau from the city of Solok , the province of West Sumatra . This dance is played by using the plate as the main media. Plates were then rocked with quick movements regular, without eluded the hand. Sometimes dishes are throwing them into the air or to land they menghempaskannya and diinjak by the dancers with naked feet. 

This dance has a movement that resembles the movement of the farmers during the planting farming, creating employment and so reap. Dance is also the feeling of joy and gratitude with the results of their plants. Dance is a jig with the dancers holding the plate in the palm of their hands, accompanied with songs played by talempong and saluang. Sometimes, the dishes thrown into the air and the dancers will let them hit the ground to be broken into pieces. To add elements of aesthetics, magic and surprises in this dance, male and female dancers will tread plate broken without fear nor wound.

Dance art plates is done in a pair or group with a variety of movements performed with the fast, dynamic sound and interspersed plates that brought in by the dancers. Dancing is a great dish tune even in the neighboring country such as Malaysia. Usually events made official in West Sumatra Dance presents one of the plates as a form of preservation Minangkabau culture. In the school taught to students in order to perform this dance.

History

At first, this dance is a ritual greeting local community gratitude to the gods after getting abundant harvests. Rituals performed by bringing offerings in the form of food which is then placed on the plate as he walked with a dynamic movement.

After the entry of religion of Islam to the Minangkabau , plates dance tradition is no longer used as a greeting ritual of gratitude to the gods. However, dance is used as a means of entertainment for many people who appear at events crowd.