brightly-dressed dancer <br />invites men from crowd <br />to dance with her <br />in a pretence of seduction <br /> <br />music is made with <br />bumbung instruments <br />begins with a long opening sequence <br />by the female dancer <br /> <br />long shawl in her hand <br />she selects a man from the audience <br />by either pointing with her fan <br />or touching his waist <br /> <br />he comes on stage <br />to hoots from the audience <br />expected to be as adept <br />at teasing as the women dancer <br /> <br />the better he is <br />the louder the cheers <br />and roars from the crowd <br />audience may laugh loudly <br /> <br />he may try to pinch her <br />dance hip to hip with her <br />even behave like an angry lover <br />and may try to hit her <br /> <br />Joged means dance <br />Bumbung means bamboo <br />exclusively secular dance <br />very popular with tourists<br /><br />Ahmad Shiddiqi<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/joged-bumbung-dance/
