Balinesse Traditional Dance – Kecak Dance at Uluwatu
Evenings are dependably a great opportunity to visit Uluwatu, the southern tip of the island. Not exclusively to appreciate the beautiful sunset from the highest point of the cliff yet in addition to watch the amazing famous Balinese traditional dance, Kecak Dance Performance, otherwise called the Bali Fire dance with the view of Uluwatu Temple and Hindian ocean.
History of the Kecak Dance
The Kecak Dance is quite possibly of Bali’s most conspicuous cultural showcases, however it isn’t precisely an “old tradition”. The dance was made, created back in the 1930’s, a cooperation between Balinese artist Wayan Limbak and the German craftsman Walter Spies.
The Kecak dance had existed preceding this, yet as a trance ritual and a long way from what it has become today. Basically the two artists took the popular story of the Ramayana into a theatric show of Balinese dance, with components of its unique ‘cak’ and different incorporations.
Wayan Limbak then carried his dance groups to show this performance all over the world, establishing a social feature that people recognized as ‘Bali’.
The Story and Elements of the Kecak Dance
The Kecak dance is performed by in excess of dozen dancers; truth be told, it is the most dancers on the stage at any one season of Bali’s well known dances. The choir group consists of at least 50 male dancers who perform extremely basic routines. The main dancer, who assume the main parts and perform countless dance routines, ordinarily incorporate around 10 to 15 dancers.
The dance portrays the story of Asia’s most legendary, Ramayana. Although the original from India this story has since spread to each side of Asia, specifically, South East Asia through similar channel as Hindu and Buddhist teachings. In Bali, the Ramayana story has become piece of the social life and strict and moral teachings since the Hindu teachings came to the island around 100 BC.
At 6pm, a group of male dancers, perfectly wrapped in black and white costumes went onto stage singing, “cak… cak… cakcakcakcak… cak… ” before sitting and cross-legged in circle.
Rama and Sita, the two heroes, enter the stage to perform wonderful and piercing dance routines portraying the dynamic love between the two people. At the point when Rama passes on to go hunting, a horrible and fiendish monster called Ravana delegates his men to capture the Princess. Lakshmana, Rama’s yunger brother, is frightened to find Sita missing, but wastes no time in going to Lanka (Ravana’s Palace) to rescue her. Jatayu, a demi-god who appears as a vulture, assists with protecting Sita, however in the process he is severely harmed.
Finally, the saviour comes from Hanuman and his followers. Hanuman is a Hindu divinity, the manifestation of Lord Shiva, and the central character in the story. Unfortunately, Ravana catches the fearless Hanuman.Ravana has the White Monkey King tied up while his men prepare the wood and fire to burn him alive. This is where the epithet of the Bali fire dance worked out as expected.
Obviously, crushing the powerful Hanuman is not excessively simple. The wood is burning flares around him, but with magic, the supernatural power Hanuman sets himself and rises free from the blast. At the same time the dance is over, the sun is setting. The sky is fixed with red, orange and pink tints; a stunning finish to an extraordinary story.
This Balinese traditional dance is very famous among tourists. They enjoy the beautiful scenery of Uluwatu and amazing Kecak dance performance before they have dinner at Jimbaran or Kedonganan.
