My Memorable in Bali and Cultural Beyond Journey Pt. 3

In my long-time previous post on this blog, I mentioned Bali's travel experience with traditional music and dance performance. But because it was a long time I had not written on this blog, so I want to re-arrange my journey diaries into the documentary article style that they will not fade away in the mood no matter how many times go by. To that point, I must research the origin of Legong dance, and then we can move on to other parts I have told you about before in the previous time. After I had written about the first two Legong drama storylines in the previous post. Today I will continue to the next famous storyline that usually performs by this traditional Balinese dancing drama.

There are many tales for Legong dance drama. At this time, they could record to have more than fifteen different stories in this repertoire. The dancers perform to the tourists refer to dance for entertaining purposes. In comparison, some storytelling keeps performing in the holy ceremony at the temple only. Some intend to use it for the ceremony festival of the island as a semi-scared dance. The most famous story arc generates from East Java and Ramayana's Indian epic with the Balinese Hindu culture. Today, we continue to introduce another of Legong's most famous storylines. This one calls Legong Kuntul. It performs by two to six girls with fans in their hands. The rule is all female dancers would have no period at that time. It always holds at the palace yard on the full moon. It tells the story of white herons from the Balinese folktale.

Next time, I will introduce more storylines of Balinese Legong dance drama. There are some interesting storylines that I have come across on the internet and have seen there in Bali too. So don't miss rechecking my blog.

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