| BARONG DANCE |
This dance we have
Daily
from 09.30 - 10.30.
Please book one day before!
price US$ 15/person.
Included: transport, and entree fee |
The Barong presented here is called Barong
Keket. This Barong Keket wear a mask, corresponding with a mythical "lion"
and the folower friend "monkey" and This type is the most popular
Barong.
No one can explain the meaning of the word
Barong. The name of the Barong depends on the animal represented. If the mask
is of a tiger (in Balinese: Macan) the Barong is then called Barong Macan,
and so if the mask is of 2 boar (in Balinese: Celeng or Bangkal) the Barong
is then called Barong Bangkal.
Barong,
a mythical creature with long swayback and curved tail, represent the affirmative,
the protector of Mankind, the glory of the high sun, and the favorable spirits
associated with the right and white magic.
Rangda,
the widow-witch, is its opposite complement. She rules the evil spirits and
witches who haunt graveyards late at night. Her habitat is darkness and her
specialties lie with the practice of black magic, the destructive force of
the left.
Both figures are of the same earthly substance,
possessing strong magical prowess. Somewhere in a mythical past, the Barong
was won over to the side of humanity, and in the dance, fights on behalf of
the people against the intruding death forces of the Rangda.
The barong play represent an eternal fight
between Good and Evil; the Barong represent Good the Rangda , the mythological
monster, represents Evil. It stages the story of Kunti Sraya, a favourite
theme of drama, depicts from the main episode of the famous Hindu epic, the
Mahabharata. This special story is about Dewi Kunti, the mother of the five
Pandawas who for some reasons, has promised to sacrifice Sadewa, one of her
five sons to Rangda.
The dance preceeded by a prelude and an intermezzo
and performed as follows:
Preludie:
The barong appears with his friend, the monkey. Then come three masked men,
the palm wine tapers who are very angry with the barong for killing a child
of one of them. They attack the barong who is helped by the monkey.During
the fight the nose one of the three men is bitten off by the monkeys.
Intermezzo:
Two girls dressed up very beautiful traditional do the Legong dance.
The performance:
First act:
Two servants of Dewi Kunti, Punta and Wijil come up; Punta is telling his
younger brothers (Wijil). The sad news that their beloved master (Sahadewa)
he will be sacrificed to the Rangda today. A hair rising howling sound is
herd, then followed by the
appearance of a frightening witch. After the witch disappears, punta and Wijil
request the patih (minister) to come soon.
Second act;
The Patih appears and after dancing for a while he squat down and makes prying
gesture towards the temple gate. Dewi Kunti enters the stage followed by a
servant and shortly afterward Sahadewa appears. Being a loving mother she
has not the heart to sacrifice he belove son. However a witch enters and bewitches
her. She become angry and orders to Patih to take Sahadewa to the forest in
where the Ranga lives.
Third
act:
The Patih also loving Sahadewa very much and he does not like his task. He
has very sad nearly cries. Again the witch arrives and bewitches the Patih.
He become angry and take Sahadewa to the forest. He ties him on a tree in
front of the abode of the Rangda.
Fourth act:
While Sahadewa tied on a tree and waits for arrival of his killer, the God
of Ciwa appears. He has pity on Sahadewa and therefore gives him immortality.
Fifth
act:
The Rangda come out, carried on the shoulders of her followers. She is ready
and eager to kill Sahadewa, but because the immortality given by Ciwa, the
Rangda can't kill him. Admitting that she can not kill Sahadewa, she ask him
for redemption so her (her soul) can go to heaven. Sahadewa agreed and redeem
her. Her soul goes to the heaven.
Sixth act:
The Randa has a disciple by name of Kalika. She also want to be redeem like
her master, but Sahadewa refuses and there ensues a fight between Sahadewa
and Kalika. Kalika using her magic power, meditates and transforms herself
into a boar. This boar is defeated. Out she come gain and this time is crow
(Garuda / Jabali). She fights and loses again and for the third time she transform
herself into the powerful of Rangda, as Ranga, she is too powerful for Sahadewa.
He meditates and becomes a Barong. There is short fights between the Rangda
and the Barong, but the fight is undecided and the Barong leaves the stage
to call his followers.
Seventh
act:
Out come of Barong's followers with the Kris and dance with their Kris to
attack the Rangda, evil can not yet be destroyed. By the spell of Rangda,
the Kris on the hand of those followers turn against to them, but the magic
of the Barong hardened their flesh so that although they push the sharp points
of the Kris, the dangers, with all their might against their naked chests,
they are not even hurt ………… only by a complete trance
can the dance be performed with impunity; otherwise a man will wound himself
or hurt others. Possessed as they are, they have a super natural power or
strength and it takes many men to hold them down to disarm. To take the men
out of trance, they are led, one by one, to where the barong stand and the
Pemangku (the temple priest) puts sacrificial offerings on the ground. After
finished to recite "mantras" the magic formulas, they then sprinkles
holy water to the face of each man and gradually the hysterical men come out
of trance, daze, simply walking away as if they did not know what had happened
to them.
The temple priest to sacrifice a black color baby chicken and the blood should
be spilled on the ground as a blood sacrifices to please the evil spirits,
The show end.
This dance we have Daily
from 09.30 - 10.30.
Please book one day before!
price US$ 15/person.
Included: transport, and entree fee
e-mail: Ketchak@visionbali.com
Phone / fax: (+ 62 361) 243486
24 Hrs phone call: 08123914438
At
the end of your trek you will have experienced a side of Bali that has remained
unchanged for generations
For
more information about this trip please contact to the Guide Danny Sridana
and for the others Trip please visit
here!
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