Balinese Dance |
 Balinese dance is an ancient dance tradition and is part of the religious and artistic expression among the people of Bali. Balinese dance is dynamic, angular and intensely expressive, with the dancers expressing the stories of dance-drama through the gestures of their fingers, hands, head and eyes. There are more than a dozen different dances in Bali, each with rigid choreography, requiring high levels of discipline. The great richness of the ritualistic dance dramas are connected to Hindu or traditional folk rituals, such as the Sanghyang Dedari sacred dance that invokes benevolent hyang spirits, believed to possess the dancers in a trance state during the performance. |  The Barong dance represents the eternal fight between the good and evil. Barong, a panther-like creature and character in the Balinese mythology is the king of the good spirits, and enemy of Rangda, the demon queen and mother of all spirit guarders in the mythological traditions of Bali. |
