DANCING SALEGY

Salegy is the traditional dancing for the Malagasy located in the North of Madagascar it presents the common of several ethnical groups such as Betsimisaraka, Sakalava, Antakarana, Tsimihety. If you dance to move all of your body you seem to dance Salegy but there are many specific movements to describe Salegy to refer another dance. For examples, a woman dances Salegy she must wear wrapper as uniform ritually without shoes. The way to dance Salegy traditionally to make a circle and there is a representative dancer goes in the middle to dance and the other stand and clap their hands and sign together mostly, one person must be spoker singer to do “Jijy”.

         In addition to that, according to the dance progression the Malagasy invented Salegy compounds “KAWITRY”

Kawitry is a dance shows typically Malagasy culture above all in North, the way to

dance kawitry is simple but it contributes surly tiredness because the woman moves their hips strongly in different position and the man stand behind the woman’s moving hips and touch tightly the hips. The couple dancers move their hips to go down and up down and up several times. That kind of moving hips calls Kawitry. It is the most popular dance in this island according to the show and clips which we see from the TV.

        To sum up, Salegy is famous, good and pleasurable. Many singers become rich and famous because of it, all Malagasy like dancing it and naturally for them to know how to dance Salegy.