Wherever you travel in Bali, the atmosphere filled with the sound of gamelan. The people playing the gamelan in the mock religious ceremony taking place, in the village hall, and in the streets as the procession went to the temple ceremony or the grave. Gamelan sometimes even played well to welcome the high-level government officials who were visiting.
Gamelan is usually supplemented by some dancers. For the purposes of the ceremony at the temple dancers are usually represented several generations. Old age and not through formal training is not an obstacle. In a ceremony at the temple you may have seen old ladies to dance with grace continued.
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| Balinese Dance |
So you can see a little girl dancing with her mouth open for too much lip coloring daub. Boys, girls, men and women all dance. Not all of them through formal education in terms of dancing before he could dance in public. Anyway they were all dancing. But why do they dance?
If we talk about sacrifice, what is in our mind is flowers, fruits, cakes, and so on. For the Balinese, a dance is an offering, too. The main purpose of the dance is for offerings to God and the gods, rather than as a spectacle for the general public.
In a ceremony at the temple, to welcome the gods of a group of dancers (mostly women) to dance around the main temple three times. While dancing in a simple but graceful movements they bring also some equipments such as holy water, fire, the fabric in various colors, and so on. These dancers berkitar follow-clockwise direction of rotation as a symbol of the mountain. Group play gamelan gamelan follow dancers and a few others sang songs of praise to God. (Photo: lusiangelina.wordpress.com)
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