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Renggong Horse


Renggong Horse 

Renggong is one of the typical art Sundanese (West Java), which show horse that can be danced. Above the horse usually sits a newly circumcised boy or a public figure. The word metathesis of ronggeng, Renggong is the meaning of dance movement with rhythmic swing (foot steps) followed by head movement and neck. Art  Renggong horses previously called because it can "Igel" (dance) is said to grow and develop in the village community Cikurubuk, Buah dua, District Sumedang. At that time (around 1880's) there was a boy named Sipan is the habit of observing the behavior of his own horses called the Cengek and the Dengkek. From his observations, he concluded that the horse can be trained to follow the movements desired by human.

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