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Pendet dancers offering a greeting. The original Pendet dance is performed by 4-5 young pre-pubescent girls in the yards of Balinese Hindu temples. Pendet is the presentation of an offering in the form of a ritual dance. Unlike sacred ritual dances that demand arduous training, Pendet may be danced by anyone, taught simply by imitation.
A dancer completing his spinning movements. (Performed by Nyoman T. Usadhi at Sanata Dharma University, 2014) Generally, the kebyar duduk dance is performed by a single male dancer, though his make-up makes him appear almost androgynous. [8]
The Srimpi (Javanese: ꦱꦿꦶꦩ꧀ꦥꦶ, romanized: Srimpi) (also written as Serimpi) is a ritualised dance of Java, Indonesia, associated with the royal palaces of Yogyakarta and Surakarta.
Gandrung dance performance in Balinese manuscripts. A collection of the University of Leiden, Netherlands. Gandrung derives its name from the Javanese word for "love". [1] It is theorized that the dance originated as a ritual dance to express the people's affection for the rice goddess Dewi Sri, [4] with trance and as a kind of fertility dance. [5]
A dance known as cendrawasih was designed by I Gde Manik and was first performed in the Sawan subdistrict of the Buleleng Regency in the 1920s; the area is the origin of numerous dances, including Trunajaya, Wirangjaya, and Palawakya.
To create what would become panyembrama, Beratha combined the most beautiful moves of traditional dances such as legong, condong, and pendet. [ 2 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Ethnomusicologist Zachar Laskewicz writes that the continued inspiration of these dances allows similar texts to be interpreted from the panyembrama performance. [ 7 ]
Kecak (Balinese: ᬓᬾᬘᬓ᭄, romanized: kécak, pronounced "kechak"), alternate spellings: kechak and ketjak), known in Indonesian as tari kecak, is a form of Balinese Hindu dance and music drama that was developed in the 1930s.
Cakalele dance (pronounced "cha-ka-leh-leh", spelled tjakalele by the Dutch) is a war dance from North and Central Maluku in Indonesia. [1] Hybrid versions also exist among the natives of Sulawesi (Kabasaran dance or Sakalele of the Minahasan), [2] East Nusa Tenggara (Abui Cakalele from Alor), [3] and the Tanimbar Islands.