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Today I will continue writing about the culture of Balinese Legong traditional dancing drama and its next famous storyline that usually performs. From the previous posts, I tried to introduce some storylines from Ramayana like Legong Jobog and the story about the two kings who turn into monkeys by the cause of the powerful magic with the sad ending when they forget their old identities and fight together, Later to Legong Lasem that focuses on the triangle love story in Ramayana on the part of Majapahit King when the gigantic bird tried to rescue the princess from King Lasem's kidnapping between the battle with the prince to win her heart and ended up by finally killed it which led the following events for the kings to lose the battle to the prince, and another storyline from Balinese folktale like Legong Kuntul with the story of the white herons. As we look into each repertoire, each Legong storyline involves deeply all around the island's beliefs, religion, and culture that fo...

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...

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 write 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. 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. I ndonesia, the archipelago country of many ten thousand islands, has known for its diverse cultures and ethnicities. Bali is one of its very distinctive destinations. Due to the root of the religion, here is Hinduism. That's in contrast to the Muslims on the other islands. Balinese has developed their traditional art and believing in every part of life. Since the culture of Bali begins to introduce worldwide. The most recognized icon of the island is the picture of the young girls dancing in the tradi...

Good morning from Thailand. Today I bring a story of culture from Bali, Indonesia, to share with you all. I had visited there around this season back in 2018. So I write it to my remembrance. When I was in Bali, I had the opportunity to see a folk dance-drama called Calon Arang, which is the most well-known dance drama because it often shows in front of tourists many times. The story of the struggle between the good god (Barong) is seen in the video as shapes like a lion mixed with various animals and the devil called Rang Da. This video recorded a regular version of this dance drama. While the formal one is always performed in the holy temple at the sacred ceremony of the island. The people are holding the dagger enter into the gate of the big temple and will be possessed by the spirit that believing to be Rang Da. They will have to stab the dagger and tickle themselves unconsciously. The storyline of the full version of dance-drama is cut down in this light tourist version that no on...