Kecak Dance, The Most Attractive Of Bali Dance

Kecak Dance Story

Kecak dance is an attractive blend of hand movements at the combine with shouts with a tone of a dynamic beat of the dancers. Now it's been very popular kecak dance well in Indonesia among the public as well as tourists from abroad. Can be said one of the Indonesian culture has an international and worldwide. "Cak cak cak,," that's the typical sounds we hear from Bali's Kecak dance. This dance is a Balinese dance drama that played out as many as 50 people up to 150 people dancers.

Kecak, Bali Dance

True to its name, the dancers are mostly men will sit cross-legged, forming a circle. Clothing used cloths and gloves, black and white boxes that coiled around the waist. They dance with hand movements up and down while making the chorus "cak cak cak", which is set in such a way to sound beautiful rhythm. It also punctuated the songs typical Balinese hand in hand while dancing, Bali's kecak dance.

No one knows where the beginning kecak dance first emerged and flourished. But there is a consensus of the Balinese people who mention that the kecak dance first developed in Bona, Gianyar. At first the kecak dance is an art music produced from a blend of sounds that usually accompany the dance sahyang. In the beginning can only be on show at the temple, because Dance Sahyang is one of the sacred dances.

But around 1930, an artist named Wayan Limbak is teaming up with a painter from Germany named Walter Spies who are trying to develop this dance by taking part of the ramayana story presented as the successor of sahyang with the aim to dance this dance can be performed in front of audiences. The story is taken and performed originally was when Dewi Shinta was abducted by Rahwana. Kecak dance itself became popular abroad since the 1970 's when Wayan Limbak ' traveling the world to promote this dance

Kecak Fire and Trance Dance

The theme of the dance is the story of Ramayana and some famous puppet characters like Rama: a handsome young man kind, Dewi Shinta: a lovely lady who held sacred, Hanoman: a human APE and Rahwana: who plays evil.

Scene from Hanoman, Kecak dance

The famous Kecak dance performances in Bali is at Uluwatu temple one of the attractions of Bali. The distance is about 30 kilometres from Ngurah Rai airport in Bali, or more precisely at the foot of the island of Bali. This dance is held every day starting at 6 pm held at the open stage. Unless the weather is raining, then the show will move to the Hall. The visitors have provided higher seating from the stage so that more freely when watching this dance. Kecak dance.

Usually the tourists who want to watch kecak dance will come early and book tickets in advance. Previously they were way way to enjoy beautiful scenery and Sun will be set around the area of Uluwatu Temple. If we are looking down this temple is built on the cliff of Hindia Ocean. It's what makes the atmosphere of Kecak dance at dusk the exclamation point. Plus more lights glowing torch that makes this dance more unique.

This dance is sacred, as many dancers who are not aware of while on stage. But before the dance started and there was a Regent (Hindu priest) who led the prayer and worship for the sake of safety together. If you pay a visit to Bali, do not forget to watch Kecak dance performances in Uluwatu Bali.

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