Zapin dance is one of several types of Malay dances that still exist today. This dance inspired by the descedant of Arab who came from Yemen. Historically, the dance was originally a dance Zapin entertainment among the kings of the castle after being taken from Yemen by merchants on the early 16th century.
Malay community, including artist and the humanist has a high creativity. It can be seen from the development Zapin dance creations that are identical with the Malay's culture and in terms poem.
Zapin dance musical accompaniment consists of two main tools, the stringed musical instrument and three small drum percussion instrument, called Marwas. Another version of the dance is accompanied by a musical ensambleconsisting of Marwas players, drum, flute, violin, accordion, dumbuk, harmonium and vocal.
Before 1960, Zapin only danced by male dancers. But now commonly dance by female dancers even mix of men and women. Zapin dance very wide variety of dance movements, altough the basic motion is basically the same Zapin. It danced by the people in Borneo.
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