This dance was created by an artist from Bandung, Gugum Gumbira, circa 1960's, with the aim to create a type of music and dance socially art treasures unearthed from folk traditions archipelago, especially in West Java. Although the art of dance including a relatively new creation, jaipongan developed based folk arts that have been developed previously, such as Tap Tilu, Kliningan and Ronggeng. Gumbira attention to folk art, one of which is Tilu Tap into treasury well know and recognize patterns of dance traditions that exist in Kliningan / Bajidoran or Tap Tilu. Opening movements, pencugan, nibakeun and some range of motion of several arts mincid the inspiration for developing the arts jaipongan.
Prior to this emerging form of performing arts, there are some influences behind the formation of this social dance. In urban areas Priangan example, the elite society, social dance influenced dance Ball Room of the West. While the folk arts, social dance influenced by local traditions. Performances of traditional dance, social dance can not be separated from the presence of dancer and pamogoran. Ronggeng in social dance is no longer working for the ceremony, but for entertainment or a way to get along. Existence dancer in the performing arts has an appeal that invites sympathy for the pamogoran. For example in Tilu Tap dance is so well known by the Sundanese people, estimated this art popular around the year 1916. As the folk performing arts, art is only supported by simple elements, such as waditra which includes fiddle, drums, two kulanter, three percussion, and gongs. Similarly, the dance movements that do not have a standard pattern of motion, a simple costume dancer as a reflection of democracy.
Along with the gradual type of art on top of the former pamogoran (audience who played an active role in the performing arts Tap Tilu / Doger / Tayub) turned his attention to the performing arts Kliningan, which in the Northern Coast of West Java (Karawang, Bekasi, Purwakarta, Indramayu and Subang ) known as a pattern Kliningan Bajidoran dance performances and events have in common with the previous art (Tap Tilu / Doger / Tayub). In the meantime, the existence of dance in mask Banjet quite popular, especially in Karachi, where some Bajidoran motion patterns extracted from the mask dance Banjet this. In choreographic dance is still reveals patterns tradition (Tap Tilu) that contains elements of the opening movements, pencugan, nibakeun mincid and some range of motion, which in turn became the basis of the creation of dance Jaipongan. Some basic dance movements Jaipongan apart from Tap Tilu, Ibing Bajidor and Mask Banjet is Tayuban and Pencak Silat.
The dance is becoming known widely since the 1970s. The emergence of dance works Gugum Gumbira was originally called Tap Tilu development, which is due to basic dance was a development of Tap Tilu. The first work Gugum Gumbira still very thick with color Ibing Tap Tilu, both in terms of choreography, then dance it became popularly known as Jaipongan.
