Reog Ponorogo dance

Historically, this dance was taken from the journey of King Kelana Sewandana who was looking for her idol, his journey accompanied by soldiers and patihnya namely Bujangganong. Until finally he met with Dewi Sanggalangit a daughter Kediri. However, he will accept his love when the King successfully created an art.


This is where the creation of Reog Dance to prove the love of King Kelana to the Princess. He asks for his soldiers reinforcements to fill in the dances he created.


Created 5 components of dancers who fill Reog Ponorogo Dance, namely:

A. King Kelono Sewandono

B. Patih Bujangganong

C. Jathil
Reog Dance comes from Ponorogo, East Java. Usually performed by 6-8 men and 6-8 women. This dance passes through several sessions, so it has a fairly long duration. But if you like art, will not bored deh see it. Special mention of reog dance is actually other than ponorogo other areas also exist but still jatim, such as reog kendang, reog dogdog, reog cemandi, reog bulkio, all the art form is almost the same, cuman very legendary and popular even still sustainable until now only reog ponorogo Have traveled up beyond Indonesia.


D. Warok


I was amazed by this dance, because there was a session where a dancer wearing a mask like a lion barongsai almost as big as his body, the mask's weight was about 50 kg. Cool, the dancer holds that big mask with his teeth. Just imagine, how can the dancers can withstand the weight of 50 kg with his teeth?

E. Pembarong



The mask used is not cheap, the way of making it takes a short time. Craftsmen reog mask did not just learn 5 -12 months. On average they spend 7-10 years to learn to make this mask.

To find out more about this dance takes longer, because each dance session will be replaced with a different dance. Just like a novel. There is a preface, opening, story content, cover and prologue.

Not strange, this dance is in great demand by foreign tourists. We should be proud to have a diverse culture