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Friday, May 25, 2012

Balinese Dancer

Balinese dance
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Balinese dances are a very ancient dance tradition that is a part of the religious and artistic expression among the Balinese people.

General description
In Hinduism, dance is an accompaniment to the perpetual dissolving and reforming of the world. The creative and reproductive balance is often personified as Shiva's wife, Durga, sometimes called Uma, Parvati, or Kali. This has significance in Balinese Hinduism, since the common figure of Rangda is similar in many ways to Durga[1].


Variants
In Bali there are various categories of dance[2], including epic performances such as the omnipresent Mahabharata[3] and Ramayana. Certain ceremonies at village temples feature a special performance of a dance-drama, a battle between the mythical characters Rangda, the witch representing evil, and Barong, the lion or dragon, representing good.
Among the dance traditions in Bali, the following deserve special mention:
Technique
Bali dancers learn the craft as children from their mothers as soon as they are born, in the womb they are played the Balinese music and are taught to dance with their hands before they can walk. Official training as a Bali dancer starts as young as 7 . In Balinese dance the movement is closely associated with the rhythms produced by the gamelan, a musical ensemble specific to Java and Bali[4]. Multiple levels of articulations in the face, eyes, hands, arms, hips, and feet are coordinated to reflect layers of percussive sounds.

The number of codified hand positions and gestures, the mudras[5][6][7], is higher in India than in Java or Bali. It has been speculated that they have been forgotten as the dance was transmitted from India to Java[8]. Hand positions and gestures are nonetheless as important in Javanese and Balinese dance as in India[9]. Whether in India, Indonesia or Cambodia, hands have a typically ornamental role and emphasize the dance's delicate intricacy.

See also
References
  1. ^ Bali: Sekala and Niskala :Essays on Religion, Ritual, and Art (Bali--Sekala & Niskala) by Fred B., Jr. Eiseman (1989) p. 24
  2. ^ The Folk Art of Bali: The Narrative Tradition (The Asia Collection) by Joseph Fischer and Thomas Cooper (1998)
  3. ^ Story Cloths of Bali by Joseph Fischer (2004) p.57
  4. ^ Performance in Java and Bali by B. Arps (1993) p.77
  5. ^ Mudras: Yoga in Your Hands by Gertrud Hirschi (2000)
  6. ^ Mudras in Buddhist and Hindu Practices: An Iconographic Consideration by Fredrick W. Bunce (2005)
  7. ^ The Music and Dance of the World's Religions: A Comprehensive, Annotated Bibliography of Materials in the English Language (Music Reference Collection) by E. Gardner Rust (1996) p.72
  8. ^ Burmese Dance and Theatre (Images of Asia) by Noel F. Singer (1996)
  9. ^ A Dictionary of Theatre Anthropology: The Secret Art of the Performer by E. Barba (2005) p.156
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