DANCE ARTS DAYAK 
By: Tumanggung Sandipa        (Admin FB Group: Bubuhan KULAAN Urang Alai BORNEO) 

In the Dayak dance, known variously Dayak dance with the exotic and stunning movement. Through the movement of the dancers are usually accompanied by Dayak tetabuhan distinctive, rhythmic elements which blends harmoniously into a meaningful art.  

The types of Dayak dance quite often displayed in public, among them:
1. Gantar Dance     
This dance illustrates the growing rice. Sticks describe pounder while bamboo and wood grain in it   describes the seed in and recesses. This dance is quite famous and is often expressed in welcoming guests and other events. This dance is not only known by the Dayak tribe Tunjung but also known by the Dayak tribe Benuaq. This dance can be divided into three versions of the dance Gantar Rayatn, Gantar Busai and Gantar oppressed / Gantar Kusak. 

2. Dance Kancet Papatai / Dance War     
This dance tells the story of a hero of the Dayak Kenyah war against his enemies. This dance is very agile, nimble, energetic and sometimes followed by cries of the dancers. In this dance, the dancers use traditional clothing Dayak Kenyah equipped with the tools of war such as saber, shield and armor. This dance is accompanied by song Sak Paku and only use the instrument Sampe. 

3. Ledo Kancet Dance / Dance Gong    
If dance Kancet Pepatay depict male virility and strength Dayak Kenyah, conversely dance Kancet Ledo describe gentleness of a girl is like a rice snaking gently in the breeze. This dance is performed by a woman wearing traditional clothes Dayak Kenyah and on both hands holding a series of tail feathers hornbills. This dance is usually danced on top of a gong, which is also called Dance Kancet Ledo Gong. 

4. Dance Kancet welds    
Describes the daily life of hornbills, birds that glorified by the Dayak tribe because it is considered as a sign of greatness and heroism. Dance is a dance single weld Kancet Dayak Kenyah women the same motion and its position as Dance Kancet Ledo, but the dancers did not use a gong and hornbill feathers and also the dancers use a lot of humble position and squatting or sitting with knees touching the ground / floor . This dance is more emphasis on movement when flying hornbills and perch perched on a tree branch. 

5. Dance Serumpai     
This is the dance of the Dayak tribe Benuaq done to resist disease and treat people who are bitten by mad dogs. Called Serumpai dance because this dance is accompanied by musical instruments Serumpai (a type of bamboo flute). 

6. Dance Belian Bawo    
Belian Bawo ceremony aims to resist disease, cure the sick, pay vows and so forth. Once transformed into dance, this dance is often presented in other arts events. This dance is a dance of the Dayak tribe Benuaq. 

7. Dance Kuyang    
A dance of the Dayak tribe Belian Benuaq to expel the ghosts that keep large trees and tall so as not to disturb people or people who cut down the tree. 

8. Dance of Little Kina 
It describes the displacement queue Dayak Kenyah tribe who move from the Apo Kayan region (Kab. Bulungan) to the area of Long Segar (Kab. Kutai Barat), which takes many years. 

9. Dance Datun    
 This dance is a dance with the girl Dayak Kenyah with an uncertain number, perhaps 10 to 20 people.  According to history, dance together was created by a tribal chief in the Apo Kayan Kenyah Dayak named Nyik Selung as a sign of gratitude and joy over the birth of a grandson. Later this dance developed throughout all the provinces of Dayak Kenyah. 

10. Dance Ngerangkau       
Traditional dances in the event of death of the Dayak tribe Tunjung and Benuaq. This dance uses the tools of rice pounder who rammed-knock on a regular basis in a horizontal position, giving rise to a certain rhythm. 

11. Dance Baraga'Bagantar      
Originally Baraga'Bagantar is belian ceremony to treat infants with begging for help from Nayun Gantar. Now that this ceremony has become a dance composed by the Dayak tribe Benuaq. 

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