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    Kinds of Legong Dance

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    Legong dance originated in the 19th century in the royal courts of Bali. It features two young girls dancing gracefully to the accompaniment of gamelan music. The intricate movements of the body, feet, hands and eyes give the dance its name - "leg" means intricate movement and "gong" refers to the gamelan. There are many variations of Legong dance, each telling stories from Balinese mythology and folklore through symbolic movement and gesture. The philosophy emphasizes conveying tales like the kidnapping of a princess or the competition between Hindu gods through elaborate yet stylized pantomime performed by the young dancers.

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    Legong dance originated in the 19th century in the royal courts of Bali. It features two young girls dancing gracefully to the accompaniment of gamelan music. The intricate movements of the body, feet, hands and eyes give the dance its name - "leg" means intricate movement and "gong" refers to the gamelan. There are many variations of Legong dance, each telling stories from Balinese mythology and folklore through symbolic movement and gesture. The philosophy emphasizes conveying tales like the kidnapping of a princess or the competition between Hindu gods through elaborate yet stylized pantomime performed by the young dancers.

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    Legong dance originated in the 19th century in the royal courts of Bali. It features two young girls dancing gracefully to the accompaniment of gamelan music. The intricate movements of the body, feet, hands and eyes give the dance its name - "leg" means intricate movement and "gong" refers to the gamelan. There are many variations of Legong dance, each telling stories from Balinese mythology and folklore through symbolic movement and gesture. The philosophy emphasizes conveying tales like the kidnapping of a princess or the competition between Hindu gods through elaborate yet stylized pantomime performed by the young dancers.

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    Legong dance originated in the 19th century in the royal courts of Bali. It features two young girls dancing gracefully to the accompaniment of gamelan music. The intricate movements of the body, feet, hands and eyes give the dance its name - "leg" means intricate movement and "gong" refers to the gamelan. There are many variations of Legong dance, each telling stories from Balinese mythology and folklore through symbolic movement and gesture. The philosophy emphasizes conveying tales like the kidnapping of a princess or the competition between Hindu gods through elaborate yet stylized pantomime performed by the young dancers.

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    Legong Dance

    Legong dance is one of Wali dance which function to performance entertainment,


    historically this dance is develop in Keraton-keraton in Bali at 19 century the idea of this dance
    is starting when a prince from Sukawati ubud (gianyar regency) that had the illness hard dream
    and see two beautiful girls dancing with the graceful accompanied by the beautiful Gambelan.
    When the prince recovered from the illness, the dreams that he had are set in the repertory dance
    complete with the gamelan. The legong dance basically is a dance which has complicate
    structure in body, eyes movement. Legong came from the word leg which means the
    complicate movement from body, foot, hand and eyes. And gong means gambelan so legong is a
    dance in complicate movement body from the dancer which followed with the instrumental
    Gambelan which calls Gambelan Semar Pegulingan. At the beginning this dance are dancing
    with two girl which is had not menstruation yet, virgin and dancing in the yard of Keraton down
    in the moon light and bring out Kipas (fan) and in the development it had a additional dance
    which call condong the other structure of this dance are papeson, pangawak, pengecet, dan
    pakaad.
    Kinds of Legong Dance
    There are many kind of legong dance which these dance take some theme which presented in
    dance here some kind of legong dance:

    Legong Lasem (Kraton)

    Legong Jobog

    Legong Legod Bawa

    Legong Kuntul

    Legong Smaradahana

    Legong Sudarsana

    Philosophy of Legong Dance


    Each of those dance are has the own characteristic like legong lasem it tell about the stories from
    prabu lasem which kidnap the princess from Daha, legong jobog it tell about the stories from
    Sugriwa and Subali from Ramayana epos, Legong legod bawa it tell about the stories from
    competition Dewa Dewa Brahma and Vishnu when searching for the secret commemorative
    Dewa Syiwa, Legong Kuntul narrate a pair of heron, which occupied sociality, and Legong
    Sudarsana tok the stories about Calonarang.
    The most common is the tale of the King of Lasem from the Malat, a collection of heroic
    romances. He is at war with another king, the father (or brother) of Princess Ranjasari. Lasem
    wants to marry the girl, but she detests him and tries to run away. Becoming lost in the forest, she
    is captured by Lasem, who imprisons her and goes out for a final assault against her family. He is
    attacked by a monstrous raven, which foretells his death.
    The dramatics are enacted in elaborate and stylized pantomime. The two little actresses are
    accompanied by a third dancer called a tjondong or attendant. She sets the scene, presents the
    dancers with their fans and later plays the part of the raven.

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