RONGGENG IN MANDAILING

RONGGENG IN MANDAILING INDONESIA
Ronggeng is a type of dance in Mandailing Godang, Nort Sumatra, Indonesia. (Great Mandailing). Ronggeng is consist of man and women in dance. But in Mandailing long time ago, it was difference. A man dancer would be a really man. But a woman dancer was not a woman. But a man who wear the garment of woman. He would act as he is a woman. It was happen cause a woman was forebode to dance in Mandailing. So in every dancing, everybody would change a woman become a man who used the garment of woman.
Ronggeng is not a Mandailing culture. It was adopted from the other culture. But because everybody liked this dance, so the ancestor of Mandailing always played this dancing. But not the perfect Ronggeng anymore.
But Ronggeng has very seldom to dance nowadays. The people prefer to watch the television now. Ronggeng has been become a story now.