Malay Dance is one of the local content dances from North Sumatra Province - Indonesia. It is important that Malay dance is well understood by various groups, both students and the general public as art connoisseurs. Understanding of Malay dance aims to increase insight and comprehensive knowledge related to Malay dance and its characteristics. Thus, through a deep understanding of the characteristics of Malay dance, the skills to create new dances become more creative. This study aims to formulate or formulate the characteristics of Malay Dance as the foundation for engineering new dance creations. The results showed that the characteristics of Malay dance were grouped intointo three major parts, namely: a) head movement group which includes four (4) kinds of motion; b) group of hand movements which includes fourteen (14) kinds of motion; and c) group of footwork which is divided into eleven (11) kinds of motion. All of these characteristics become the foundation for engineering the creation of a new Malay dance by using the elements of energy, space, and time as a foothold.

Batak Simalungun is a part of the five Batak tribes, namely Batak Toba, Batak Karo, Batak Pakpak, and Batak Mandailing, as well as from eight indigenous tribes namely Melayu, Nias, and Sibolga Pesisir in North Sumatra Region. This study aims to explain how the traditional Batak Simalungun dance movement technique in Tortor Martonun, or in Indonesian can be interpreted as a weaving dance. The method used in this research is descriptive-qualitative. The approach used is an ethnographic study with an emphasis on the cultural aspects of the Batak Simalungun tribe. The research location was conducted in Simalungun Regency. The results showed that the Tortor Martonun belonging to the Simalungun community had 20 types of movements consisting of: Mamuyuk (collecting cotton fruit), Manrobus (boiling cotton fruit), Mamispis (separating seeds from cotton), Mamusur (developing), Manusun Bonang (composing thread), Marsigira (coloring), Manjomur Bonang (drying the thread), Mangganti (shaping the thread), Mamuyuk Bonang (taking the thread), Partorsahon Bonang (tidying the thread), Manggulung Bonang (rolling the thread), Martonun (weaving), Manggulung bonang (winding thread), Papeakkon Bonang (putting/placing the thread), Martonun (weaving), Mambuka Hiou (untying the woven/traditional woven cloth), Patorsahon Hiou (tidying the hiou), Pataridahkon Hiou (showing hiou), and Panutup (closing). To facilitate the learning process of Tortor Martonun while responding to technological advances, the entire range of motion is packaged in its entirety in audio-visual media, and uploaded to podcast “Rumah Tari’. with a link link Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYn7jZKYq0mEVgjWajsInag