The dance drama performed by frangipani-crowned girls is an emblem of this tiny Southeast Asian island province Legong is a “balih-balihan”, or secular, Balinese dance form meant “purely for ...

Entering the hectic backstage area of Taman Ismail Marzuki’s playhouse in Jakarta, I was immediately greeted by the big motherly smile of Ayu Bulantrisna Djelantik. Bulanstrina is direct descendant of ...

Mysterious forces drew Bonnie Simoa to Bali, Indonesia to study the legong dance, which she has now been practicing for two decades. Simoa founded a dance company in Davis, California, and as the ...

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The UCLA Film and Television Archive recently restored the picture and sound of this rarity from 1935, one of a spate of “quasi-documentaries” made in the 1920s and ‘30s after the international ...

Dewa Nyoman Irawan, a 30-year-old Balinese dancer, expertly twirls a fan in his right hand while performing intricate finger movements with his left, captivating his audience at the Viceroy Bali ...

This ritualistic dance-drama is performed during festivals and special ceremonies in Bali temples, writes Priti Agrawal In fact, dances are so much a part of Balinese daily rituals that they have ...