hello friends blur,t tonight I want to post about arts, customs and culture, today I went to the Calonarang dance drama event in the area where I live
A number of folk arts in Bali are still well developed, providing an alternative option for the community to enjoy traditional entertainment that elevates local culture, one of the folk arts is the Calonarang dance drama.
This folk art performance is indeed quite popular among the public, although now in this modern era there are many various entertainment arts that are developing because of the rapid human ability to master technology, making traditional things quite rare, so dance dramas like this Calonarang performance quite attractive to the people of Bali.
About Calonarang Dance Drama
The Calonarang dance drama tells the story of a legendary antagonist on the island of the Gods, Bali, and is even quite popular in his hometown in Kediri Regency, East Java. The popularity of this story is not because of its goodness but its evil mastering black magic that interferes with the lives of others and causes misery.
Although the original story is not from Bali, the Calonarang dance drama is very popular here. Appointed in a dance drama performance, the theme carried is mystical and horror, even this folk art is not performed in any place or time, so folk art performances are quite rare to find.
Calonarang himself is known to be a very scary imitation, mastering high-level leak science so he is very feared. A number of dance drama groups on the island of the Gods, Bali, are special in presenting this dance performance.
The performance of the traditional Calonarang dance drama usually takes place at the Dalem temple or a place adjacent to the cemetery and in the middle of the night, this traditional Balinese dance drama is staged as a guardian dance that smells of horror aimed at cleaning up the wewidangan (region) of the traditional village.
This dance drama art is held after a series of yadnya (piodalan) ceremonies at the Dalem temple. Not just any dance group to perform it, as well as the audience, not for family entertainment, especially children, those who are underage are not recommended to watch this show, because it is not a spectacle for children and they are worried that something unwanted will happen.
In the performance of this traditional Balinese dance, to make it even more sinister at the peak, the scene is darkened without lights, accompanied by an invitation from the dance performers to those who are practicing black magic to try one of the performers in testing their supernatural powers, and not using their knowledge. for evil or harm to others.
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