Indonesian Dance

Indonesia has a rich heritage of traditional dance styles. Balinese dance tends to be precise, shifting and jerky, like the accompanying gamelan music, which has abrupt shifts of tempo and dramatic changes between silence and crashing noise.

There's virtually no physical contact in Balinese dancing each dancer moves independently, but every movement of wrist, hand and finger is important. Even facial expressions are carefully choreographed to convey the character of the dance.

Legong is the most graceful of Balinese dances. A performance involves just three dancers the two Legongs and their 'attendant' known as the Condong. The Legongs are identically dressed in tightly bound gold brocade. Their faces are elaborately made up, their eyebrows plucked and repainted, and their hair decorated with frangipanis.

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[sisterforall]

The dance is beautifull, but it seems YOU missed the point with the music. ....I pitty you is it ignorance? Hopefully someone else has more respect for the traditional dances.....and music

[kotam4307]

Beautiful balinese dances, but wrong music

[vergiber]

search  bolder gazet van antwerpen

[zwang77]

With this music the harmony is broken.

[MissSanthagen1988]

im an indonesian girl

[NSResponder]

This is really bizarre, to hear this mediocre soundtrack instead of the gamelan. What were you thinking?

-jcr

[EverAppl14]

What's with the totally miserable ballad?

[jajakasakti]

wrong music.....more respect to our traditional dance and music,please.....

[invertedhearts21]

wow.they almost look like Filipinos.:)

[loisearth48]

wonderful..my grandmother her roots coming from Sumatra and I did a long time ago Eastern ballet..its so good to see this..

[tidurme]

Lovely compilation of dances, thank you'

[0500542743ful]

i like this dance & indonesia

from saudi arabia