Plate Dance

Dancing Plate (Minangkabau) is an art of dance belongs to the Minangkabau people from West Sumatra. He is one of Minangkabau art of dance is still practiced residents Negeri Sembilan Minangkabau descent.
 
This dance has a motion that resembles the movement of farmers during planting bercucuk, making work reaping and so on. This dance also symbolizes joy and gratitude with the results of their crops.

This dance is a jig with the dancers holding plates in their palms, accompanied by a song played by talempong and Saluang. Sometimes, the dishes will dilontar into the air or slammed to the ground and climbed by the dancers.
 
To add aesthetic elements, magic and surprises in this dance, male and female dancers will trample the broken plates without fear nor wound. The audience will certainly feel terrified when the glass broke and it climbed sharply, pulling.

Randai Dance

Randai in the history of the Minangkabau have a rather long history. The legend says that he was played by the community Pariangan, Tanah Datar when mesyarakat managed to capture the deer out of the sea. Randai in Minangkabau society is an art that is played by several people in the sense of group or team event, where there is a story in this Randai brought, like the story Cindua Mato, Malin Deman, Anggun Nan Tongga, and other folklore. Randai aims to entertain people during a party usually held in public or on the feast of Eid al-Fitr.

Randai is played by the protagonist who will be tasked with telling a story, the protagonist of this could amount to one person, two, three or more depending on the story that was delivered, and in bringing the main character or act it is circled by the other members that aims to animate berlansungnya event.

Randai Now this is something foreign to young Minangkabau, this is because the shifting orientation of art or hobby of that generation. Randai contained in pasisie (coastal) and Darek area (mainland).
 
Initially Randai is a medium to convey the tale or folklore through couplets or poems are sung and galombang (dance) which originate from Minangkabau silat movements. But in its development, adopting Randai style characterizations and dialogue in the plays, such as group Dardanela.

Randai at first is a medium to convey stories of the people, and less appropriate if called as a theater Randai Minangkabau tradition, although in its development Randai adopting storytelling or theater or theatrical dialogue.