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Ramayana Ballet is the performing arts are wonderful, amazing and difficult unrivaled. This performance is able to unite various Javanese arts such as dance, drama and music on one stage and one momentum to present the Ramayana story, a legendary epos written by Valmiki in Sanskrit. Ramayana story that brought on this show is similar to that engraved on Prambanan temple. Like a lot of legend, Ramayana story carved on the Hindu temple similar to the story in oral tradition in India.

Ramayana ballet

Roads are long and suspenseful story was summarized in four plays or act, the abduction of Sinta, Anoman mission to Lanka, Ravana’s death or Kumbhakarna, and the founding Sinta. All the stories presented in a series of dance movements presented by the beautiful dancers, accompanied by gamelan music. You are invited to actually dissolve in the story and observe each movement of the dancers to know the story. There’s no spoken dialogue of the dancers, the only speaker was Sinden who describes the story through the songs in the Java language with a distinctive voice. (more…)

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Kuda Lumping is the art of dance that is played with a horse property in the form of imitation, made from woven bamboo or braids. None of the historical record can explain the origin of this dance, only verbal history passed down from one generation to the next. Kuda Lumping dance is a form of appreciation and support of the commoners against cavalry of Prince Diponegoro in the face of Dutch colonizers.

Kuda Lumping player who eating a hot coals

There is also a version that mentioned that the Kuda Lumping dance depicting the struggle of Raden Patah, assisted by Sunan Kalijaga, against the Dutch colonialists. Another version says that, this dance tells the story of the Mataram army war game led the lane I, King of Mataram, to face the Dutch troops.
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In Ubud, Bali, especially in the area every night, tourists can watch traditional Balinese dance performance. In some places in Ubud Bali held a variety of dances from various dance studio, usually dance popular among the tourists, among others, namely Legong, Kecak dance, Barong Dance and others. Legong who became one of the favorite dances watched by the tourists both domestic tourists and foreign tourists is a dance that developed in the palace or the palace in Bali. Legong dance is usually danced by two girls and Legong itself has many varieties or types.

Beautiful of Kecak dance

While the Kecak dance is a dance performed by many people shouting or singing, accompanied by the melodious rhythm of dozens of men who sat around in the arena of dance to express “Cak cak cak cak.” This dance is the theme or story of the Ramayana and the Barong dance which became one of the favorite dances watched by the tourists is a dance that tells a never-ending battle between Barong as a symbol of goodness and Rangda as a symbol of evil. In addition to these dances are still many more dances that can be watched in Ubud and other areas in Bali. (more…)

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