Kuda Lumping (Embleg) Dance

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In addition to Rampak yakso dance, you can enjoy the dance “Kuda Lumping” / embleg.  Usually the Dieng plateau presents this dance when there is a big celebration.

Kuda Lumping (Embleg) Dance also called braid or jathilan is a traditional Javanese dance center featuring a group of soldiers on horseback. This dance uses a horse made ​​of wicker and bamboo which is cut like the shape of a horse. Matting horse is decorated with colorful paint and fabric. Lumping horse dance scenes usually show only the horsemen, but some performances will also serve lumping horse possessed attractions, immunity, and magical powers, like eating glass and attractions immunity against flogging whip. Jaran braid is part of the dance performances reog. Though this dance came from Java, Indonesia, this dance is also inherited by the Javanese settled in North Sumatra and in some areas outside of Indonesia as in Malaysia.

Kuda Limping dance is played with a horse property imitation, made ​​from woven bamboo or braid. None of the historical record can explain the origin of this dance, only verbal history passed down from one generation to the next.