**Saman, From Gayo Highland to The World**

**Saman, From Gayo Highland to The World**

 The natural beauty of Gayo Highland, The motherland of Saman Dance in Aceh Province, Indonesia Source

Exciting, that is the sensation that I feel every time I watch Saman dance performance. Everyone I know claimed to feel the same when they watch the dance that overseas popularly known as thousand-hand dance.With its unique, dynamic and heroic character, the beautiful combination of fast, straightforward, yet compact and neat movements, as well as traditional clothing costumes are contrasted and look very ethnical, Saman Gayo dance is a super show, a show that often raises the spirits of its audience. No wonder, Liliane Fan, a human rights activist from Malaysia who is very familiar with Aceh, admitted fascinated, could not hold back and cried as she was being exposed to the energy and heroism of the Saman dance.