Kuda Kepang

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KUDA KEPANG, a hobby horse trance dance popular in the state of Johor, is accompanied by a percussion ensemble consisting of 2 drums, a hanging gong, a pair of knobbed gongs (kenong) on a rectangular wooden frame, and 5 angklung or bamboo tubular chimes.

It tells the story of nine Javanese men who spread Islam into the interiors of Java. To catch people's attention, these men rode on horseback and dramatised tales of battles won for Islam. The dance is performed by nine dancers who sit on two dimensional horses made of hide.

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