Tuesday, April 04, 2006

Bali Tours, Art & Culture

Everyone who has visited Bali is always favourably impressed with its cultural attractions and natural beauty. Bali is enriched by it`s indegenious and unique culture, arts, traditional dance & drama, custom, tradition, belief, spectacular panorama. All aspects are blended in a balance of an eternal search for peace.

Balinese Dance
Dance is the main art form in Balinese culture, performed at the main temple festivals and in ceremonies of the cycle of life and death. The range of dances in hotels and on special stages is only a small fraction of what Balinese dance has to offer.

There are several dances that could excite you. There is the kecak - perhaps the most popular of all Balinese dances, the barong, is the magical protector of Balinese villages, the gambuh - a classical form of dance-drama, the topeng, which is traditional masked dance, the Baris or the warrior's dance, legong, the Dance of the Heavenly Nymphs, the kebyar which is a flashy modern dance and the Shanghyang Dedari, the ritual trance dance.