The Dazzling of The Unique Balinese Dances

The Bali island’s culture is famous for its high artistic value and one of them expressed clearly in a lot of performances that take place almost every day in this island. From sacred dances which mostly performed in ceremony until guest welcoming dance, that made Bali become the monst wanted destination in South East Asia to savour the marvelous traditional dance. Here are a few of Balinese dance forms:

Barong dance

Barong dance is one of pre-Hindu cultural heritage which is still exist until now. There are several information regarding the meaning of ‘Barong’. One of them said that the Barong name is absorption word of ‘bahruang’ meaning sacred bear with has magical power, which is believe as epitome of kindness.

There are several versions of barong dance history. One of them said that this dance is a symbol of kindness and evil. There are two main figures of the dance, they are Barong itself as the kindnees symbol and Rangda as the evil symbol. Most of you could be already familiar with the form of Barong and Rangda mask.

As we know, Barong is originaly performed by two peoples who wear a for legs animal custome but nowdays we could found several forms of Barong, they are Barong Ket, Barong Bangkal, Barong Asu, Barong Gajah, Barong Macan, Barong Landung and Barong Blasblasan.

Pendet Dance

Pendet is a dance created for the purpose of Hindus temple ceremony. Intended as Hindus gratitude to God. But now, thedance which designed by I Wayan Rindi is also used as a welcoming dance and performing in several tourism spots as well.  Pendet usually danced by a group of women with a tray containing flowers and in the middle of the dance they will be laying flowers as a symbol of welcome and gratitude.

Legong Dance

Legong dance is a classical dance other bali also intended as a dance for the gods. This dance is usually danced by young children in a ceremony. A dance that symbolizes beauty and grandeur with smooth movements and stomping. As well as other Balinese culture, each region in Bali has a different Legong dance which is absorbed the nature and everyday life.

Kecak Dance

Kecak dance is a very unique dance because it is danced by hundreds of people. This dance uses the human voice as the music accompanying selected story. They sat in a circle while kicked a unique sound to accompany a story that danced in the middle of the circle. Ramayana is a story commonly taken as the fragment.

Topeng

Topeng is actually an Indonesian type of dancing dramatization through which several professional dancers use masks as well as carry out old tales, frequently worrying old or even legendary kings as well as heroes. It has actually its own beginnings in the 17th century. Topeng dancings are actually very most common in Bali as well as Java however are actually likewise discovered in various other Indonesian islands like Madura (off the coastline of Eastern Java). Words "topeng" implies mask in Indonesian. The dancing is actually gone along with through gamelan songs.

It is actually thought that using masks is actually associated with the cult of the forefathers, which thought about professional dancers the interpreters of the gods. Topeng efficiencies available along with a collection of non-speaking, dance concealed personalities that might certainly not be actually associated with the tale that will certainly be actually carried out. These conventional masks frequently consist of "Topeng Manis" (a polished hero), Topeng Kras (a martial, tyrannical character), as well as Topeng Tua (an aged guy that might create jokes as well as attract the target market out).

The real tale is actually informed through a narrator using a half-mask, therefore allowing the star towards talk, referred to as Penasar. In team topeng, certainly there certainly are actually typically 2 penasars offering 2 various viewpoints. The efficiency of the tale alternates in between talking as well as non-speaking personalities as well as might consist of dancing areas, combats as well as unique impacts (in some cases offered due to the gamelan orchestra), as well as it is actually often concluded through a collection of comic personalities presenting their very personal sights.