Zapin Dance is one kind of dance which is comes from malay ethnic. Usually zapin dance is performed at wedding, tradition ceremony, and art show. Zapin dance is accompanied by traditional music, which consists of gambus, marwas, and violin.
Zapin dance consists of many variants and appropiated with dance characteristic and geographic. These days, kinds of zapin dance divided becomes two. They are traditional zapin dance and modern zapin dance.
Traditional zapin dance has movement inspired by traditional movements, and habis, for example : the ebb and flow of the tide, flying birds, etc. This movements has harmonic move from top to toe.
Modern zapin dance is developing movements and revolution movement of traditional zapin dance. The characteristic of modern zapin dance is variety, expresive movements and the costumes are more various.
Zapin dance comes rom Middle East by Persian and Arabic missionarist, and introduced to Malay during the fifteenth century. The dance is originally performed by males only. However it is also perfomed by female dancers these days.
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