New Concept || Sanur Village Festival is Opened :D

Hello traveler :D 

It's been long time from my last post , but I change my blog concept a little bit. It will be more casual and informative on place , event and many things that happening in Bali.

Well, 

Here is the first info on my new blog concept .

Sanur Village festival is Opened :D

yeeeeyyyyy .....! :D

Sanur village festival is yearly festival that held in Sanur of course which is commonly called SanFest for short . This year , 2015 is the 10th SanFest  that held from August 26th - 30th at Maisonette Area Inna Grand Bali Beach. 

You must be asking about , what is special or what can you see there # am i right ? i wish i'm .

Like all other festival , we can see food court , competitions, exhibition, music. etc

That kind a common festival right?

But SanFest is not a common festival , it also has a beach clean up, turtle release , traditional kite festival, Fishing competition, coral plantation, Village cycling tour, Sanur golf tournament, and many more exciting activities. 

Sooo ....,

Don't miss it , or you have to wait another year for the next SanFest.

That's all that i can tell you and all the things up there just kind a information that i can say base on my experience , so if something that i miss, i'm sorry 

And See yaaa on the next post Traveler :D

For more information about SanFest and the Schedule you can visit the official website of SanFest.

http://www.sanurvillagefestival.com/

Legong Dance

    Legong Dance

       Legong is one of Balinese dances that characterized by the intricate finger movements, complicated steps, expressive gestures and facial expressions and always did by females dancers. Its delicacy is heightened by the fact that is performed by richly costumed young dancers.

           Legong is always danced at public festivals. Excerpts from Legong dance dramas which are put on for tourists. Looking at the early begin, Legong dance was created because of the dream of Prince Sukweti during his illness. He dream about two maids were dancing in gamelan music. After he recovered, he arranged for such dance to be performed in reality. In other believe, Legong was originally dedicated to the Sanghyang Dedari, which the ceremony involving the two little girls by beneficent spirits.

           The Legong dancers have to learn the basic move and from early begin, start from the training of the posture (tangkep), movements and mimicry. Three dancers in glittering costumes – one tjondong lady-in-waiting and two princesses whose roles change according to the narrative – usually perform it. The ancient legong used to have a storyteller’s accompaniment, but these days they are only dance performances.

           Legong dancers are always girls who have not yet reached puberty. They begin rigorous training at about the age of five. These dancers are regarded highly in the society and usually become wives of royal personages or wealthy merchants.

Kecak Dance

Kecak Dance

           What makes the Kecak special is that the accompanying music is provided by the human voice, the gamelan suara, a choir of a hundred men or more sitting in concentric circles, swaying, standing up, lying prone as the story develops.Amongst the swaying masses the voices of the storytellers can be heard telling the unfolding tale.

The story is a fragment from the Ramayana, the Hindu epic which finds its expression in many forms, not only in dance, but also in painting and carving. Prince Rama, heir to the throne of the kingdom of Ayodya, and his wife Sita have been banished from the kingdom by King Dasarata as a result of trickery by Rama’s stepmother. The story begins with the arrival of Rama and Sita accompanied by Rama’s brother Laksmana in the forest of Dandaka.

           The trio have been observed by the demon Rahwana, King of Alengka, who lusts after the beautiful Sita. Rahwana sends his prime minister Marica to try and isolate Sita so that Rahwana can kidnap her. Marica's magical powers turn him into a golden deer and he enters the forest and when the Sita sees the golden deer she is so enchanted by it that she asks Rama to capture it for her. Rama chases after the deer leaving his brother Laksamana behind with strict instuction to protec Sita. When Sita thinks she hears a cry for help from Rama she forces Laksamana to go after Rama by accusing him of cowardice and he goes off to help Rama with great reluctance after drawing a magic circle on the ground and telling Sita the she should not under any circumstance step out side the circle.

           Sita, left alone in the forest becomes an easy prey to the trickery of Rahwana who has disguised himself has an old priest and bags Sita for some food as he is cold and hungry. Sita falls for for his trick, she steps outside the circle to give the old priest some food and Rahwana grabs her and takes her to his palace.Once back in his palace in Alengka, Rahwana tries everything he can to seduce Sita without any luck.

           In the palace of Alengka, Sita pours out her heart about her cruel fate to Rahwana's niece Trijata, when Hanoman appears telling her that hi is Rama's envoy and proving it by showing her Rama's ring. Sita gives Hanoman a hairpin to                                                  show she is still alive and sand him back to Rama with a massage to come to her rescue. In the meantime Rama and Laksamana accompanied by Tualen are wandering in the forest looking for Sita when Meganada, Rahwana's son, appears and engages Rama and Laksamana in Battle. Meganada uses his magic powers and shoots of an arrow which magically turns in to a dragon which overpowers Rama and Laksamana and they are trussed up in ropes.

           The bird Garuda, King of all the bird, a good friend of King Dasarata, has observed trouble Rama is in from high up in the sky and comes to the rescue freeing the brothers from the ropes. Rama and Laksamana continue on their way to rescue Sita and are joined by Sugriwa, king of the monkeys, and his monkeys army. This fragment of the Ramayana come to an end with the battle between Sugriwa and his Monkeys Army and Meganada and his Demon Army which ends with the defeat of Meganada.