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Manage No, Sortation, Country, Writer ,Date, Copyright Manage No EE00000961 Country Malaysia ICH Domain Performing Arts Address The state of Johor, Malaysia
| Description | The Ketam Bangkang Dance (or the ‘Crab Dance’) is an arts form of the Orang Asli (indigenous people) that live in Bakar Batu, Johor. Ketam Bangkang is called ‘Yok Sang’ in the language of the indigenous people. Among the dance steps are elements of the crab like ‘clawing’, ‘crab run’, ‘provoking’, ‘crab’s joke’ and ‘shooing the crab’, as well as ‘wave’s billow’, ‘peeping’, ‘rowing a boat’, ‘the Seletar sway’, ‘dipping mud’, ‘wiping sweat’, ‘nose picking’ and ‘brink of bridge’. |
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