{"id":218,"date":"2021-04-25T17:27:21","date_gmt":"2021-04-25T10:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/student-activity.binus.ac.id\/bidc\/?p=218"},"modified":"2021-04-25T17:32:33","modified_gmt":"2021-04-25T10:32:33","slug":"all-you-need-to-know-about-traditional-balinese-kecak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/student-activity.binus.ac.id\/bidc\/2021\/04\/25\/all-you-need-to-know-about-traditional-balinese-kecak\/","title":{"rendered":"All You Need To Know About Traditional Balinese Kecak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">By: Angelika Natasha Utomo<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The infamous tropical getaway on earth, Bali Indonesia still has its own sets of mysteries, these mysteries come in form of traditional dances where the locals believe that the dance signifies the war between Gods.\u00a0 The legend of Ramayana passed down over generations is still portrayed into a critical ceremony called<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Tari Kecak<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, where movements describe the story.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As one of Bali\u2019s ancient traditional dances,\u00a0 Tari Kecak has a certain correlation with the Balinese beliefs, where the religion of Hinduism developed the story of Ramayana. The legend of Ramayana is based on historical warfare between the god Rama and the demonic King Ravana. Thus, the performance of Tari Kecak attempts to convey the antiquity of Balinese culture to the audience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The dance <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cTari Kecak\u201d<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> can be seen to perform daily at 6 pm according to Bali\u2019s time region. The performance takes place in the Hindu temples Tanah Lot and Uluwatu Temple. The dance starts as the male dancers form a circle around the female dancers who can be seen at the center of the circle, the males who circle the female dancers wear checked clothes around their waist and usually forms three layers, males gather and start to chant \u201cchak\u201d while moving their arms and hands. The sound of the Gamelan can also be heard to help synchronized the chants and gain tempo as time passes. At the peak of the speed of the chant, the chant is cut and deafening silence is followed.\u00a0 The dance was a movement of circular waves that are synchronized, as if it was an eye of the hurricane where the female dancers being at the center in a swirl of hands and arms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bali has many essential cultural points and \u201cTari Kecak\u201d is one of them, the mysterious rhythmic dance\u00a0 with the correlation to the Gods of Hinduism has not lost its touch for decades. It has continued to mesmerize all who see the performance, and it will continue to do so for decades to come.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Image source: https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=i&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fbalispartantour.com%2Fblog%2Fthe-history-of-bali-kecak-dance%2F&amp;psig=AOvVaw35Ssf3TVZmaeF4-W9qvI_r&amp;ust=1619433384649000&amp;source=images&amp;cd=vfe&amp;ved=0CAMQjB1qFwoTCKDF1M-ZmfACFQAAAAAdAAAAABAO<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Source: <\/i><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kompas.com\/skola\/read\/2021\/03\/03\/152551469\/tari-kecak-tari-tradisional-bali-dengan-50-penari-pengiring?page=all\"><b><i>www.kompas.com<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Angelika Natasha Utomo The infamous tropical getaway on earth, Bali Indonesia still has its own sets of mysteries, these mysteries come in form of traditional dances where the locals believe that the dance signifies the war between Gods.\u00a0 The legend of Ramayana passed down over generations is still portrayed into a critical ceremony called [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/student-activity.binus.ac.id\/bidc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/student-activity.binus.ac.id\/bidc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/student-activity.binus.ac.id\/bidc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/student-activity.binus.ac.id\/bidc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/student-activity.binus.ac.id\/bidc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/student-activity.binus.ac.id\/bidc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222,"href":"https:\/\/student-activity.binus.ac.id\/bidc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions\/222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/student-activity.binus.ac.id\/bidc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/student-activity.binus.ac.id\/bidc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/student-activity.binus.ac.id\/bidc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/student-activity.binus.ac.id\/bidc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}