Dances with the suling
9 dances from around the world that are danced to the suling.
🇮🇩 IndonesiaTopeng danceTari Topeng
A masked Indonesian dance-drama telling ancient stories through movement and gamelan musicDance-drama · Solo · Group
🇮🇩 IndonesiaCendrawasih danceTari cendrawasih
A Balinese duet depicting the mating ritual of the bird of paradise.Folk dance · Couple
🇮🇩 IndonesiaSanghyangᬲᬂᬳ᭄ᬬᬂ (Tari Sanghyang)
A sacred Balinese ritual where dancers enter trance to channel spiritual entities.Ritual dance · Solo · Group
🇮🇩 IndonesiaCakaleleTari cakalele
A male warrior performance from the Maluku Islands featuring mock combat with spears and shields.Folk dance · Group
🇮🇩 IndonesiaSisingaan
A Sundanese lion palanquin dance celebrating a boy's rite of passageFolk dance · Group · Procession
🇮🇩 IndonesiaSandiwaraᮞᮔ᮪ᮓᮤᮝᮛ
A traditional Indonesian folk theatre form blending drama, music, and danceDance-drama · Group
🇮🇩 IndonesiaJoged Bumbung
A flirtatious Balinese dance accompanied by lively bamboo gamelan musicFolk dance
🇮🇩 IndonesiaSundanese danceTarian Sunda
Dynamic, drum-led dances of western Java, from village harvests to JaiponganFolk dance · Solo · Couple
🇮🇩 IndonesiaIreng mask danceꦠꦺꦴꦥꦺꦁꦲꦶꦉꦁ
A Javanese group dance featuring feather crowns and clattering boot bellsFolk dance · Circle · Set or square
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Topeng dance: Sudanto Ponco Sularso, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Sanghyang: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Cendrawasih dance: Crisco 1492, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Cakalele: Ardian Djati, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Sisingaan: Amir Hosseini, CC BY 4.0, source
- Joged Bumbung: fir0002 flagstaffotos [at] gmail.com Canon 20D + Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8, GFDL 1.2, source
- Sundanese dance: Gunawan Kartapranata, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Ireng mask dance: Fandy Aprianto Rohman, CC BY-SA 4.0, source