DANCE ARTS KECAK

Kecak / Ketjack: Dance is a typical Balinese performing arts, Indonesia, which was created in 1930 and played mainly by men. This dance is usually performed by many (tens or more) male dancers who sat lined circular and with a certain rhythm called the sound "Cak .. Cak .. Cak" and raised both arms, depicting the Ramayana or the story when Rama's line of apes help fight Ravana. However, Kecak Trance ritual comes from, ie dancers dance traditions will be in unconscious condition or the conditions under conscious (Trance), to communicate with God or the spirits of the ancestors and then convey their expectations to the public.

The dancers are seated in a circle is wearing plaid cloth like a chessboard their waist worn. Besides the dancers, there were other dancers who portray the characters of Ramayana as Rama, Shinta, Ravana, Hanuman, and Sugriva

Kecak dance songs taken from the ritual dances sanghyang. In addition, do not use musical instruments. Only used kincringan worn on the feet of dancers who portray the characters of Ramayana.

Around the 1930s Wayan modulus worked with German painter Walter Spies to create the Kecak dance is based on the tradition of Trance and parts of the story of Ramayana. Wayan modulus popularizing this dance while traveling the world with his troupe of Balinese dancers more interested to see the Kecak dance of close please come to the city of Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia so thank you hope this brief info