April 10th, 2005
The Legong dance is one of the most graceful of the Balinese dances. A Legong is young girl, often as young as 8 or 9 and not much older than her early teens. It involves 3 dancers, two Legong and their 'attendant' (congong). If you did not have the flyer in front of you describing what you were seeing, you would have no idea what this dance was about as it jumped from different dance styles through out the performance and seemingly followed no storyline.


Gamelan orchestra with kedang drum.


Puspa Wresti-a ritual dance where Dancers bring "offerings" for temple ceremony.


Puspa Wresti


Puspa Wresti tossing floral offerings.


Topeng Keras-a mask dance where mask is red and the character is tough, representing the hard intesive denoting anger.




That temple I told you about a few posts ago. Here it is at night, as a stage for the Legong Dance.


Legong Kraton


Legon Kraton


Legong Kraton- dressed in gold brocade very tightly bound. Faces are elaboratly made up, eyebrows plucked and repainted, and their hair decorated with frangipani.


Legong Kraton




This is supposed to be a woman dressed to be a man, BUT, I'm pretty sure it's a man! The dance is called Kebyar Duduk or Tarunajaya.


This is a dancer in the Kupu-Kupu Tarum which is a sacred dance exhibiting the glamorous butterflies iin heaven.


Kupu-Kupu Tarum


Kupu-Kupu Tarum. I'm pretty sure this is a little boy performing this dance.


Oleg Tambulilingan is a graceful love dance.


Oleg Tambuliliangan.


Jauk is a mask dance exhibiting a demon who is alone in the jungle, but happy to move and be free.


Jauk.


The cast of dancers.


Was a paper offering, or Lamak, that had been a decoration on the stage.

© December 6, 2008