Joged Bumbung Dance

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