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Kebyar Duduk Dance

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Tari Kebyar Duduk

Another one of many Balinese dances

The Kebyar Duduk dance comprises a single male dancer, seated cross-legged in the middle of the orchestra who nimbly undulates his very supple upper torso and hands to the music. The Kebyar Duduk dancer is responsive to the orchestra, projecting every mood and nuance of rhythm. The sitting posture indicates his dependency on the orchestra. Accessories may include a fan and an extra length of narrow gold cloth wound around his torso, the train of which the dancer may pick up and flick around with his hands. He has a headcloth, with a red hibiscus flower over the left ear and wears make-up such as powder and painted lips.

Kebyar Duduk, like Baris, is a solo exhibition dance. In Baris, it is the dancer who dominates the gamelan. In Kebyar Duduk, the dancer is dependent on the gamelan, as typified by his sitting posture throughout the performance. The dance is set to a single musical composition and progresses through a sequence of moods of an idealized Balinese youth who is just at the point of reaching full maturity. He expresses a gamut of emotions, ranging from sweet flirtatiousness to bashfulness, melancholy and angry bravado.

Many of the basic poses, gestures and longer phrases of movement have been adapted from the Legong dance, but they have been made more intricate, more elaborate, and more artificial.

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artist note:

This is my favorite dance, and one of my specialty. Even tough this dance is for young male, but I'm able to do it (most of dances that I excel is male dances). it's because Tari Gebyar duduk is a bebancihan type dance.

This dance is a difficult one, because it's special squating like movement (you'll be understand if you watch the dance), but a playful and expressive one. This also have a variation called Tari Kebyar Terompong. The difference is, the dancer plays a terompong (a musical instrument) by him/her self. (I'm also excel at this dance :XD:)

About the costume, yes, it's really colorful and bright. That's a usual costume for male dances.

there's also other balinese dances that use a same costume as kebyar duduk, like Panji Semirang, Wiranatha, etc. Fascinating, isn't?

I'm really proud to be a Balinese dancer, and to be an Indonesian :D
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dhamiar's avatar
Huwaa..cantik banget coloring-nya :D
nice pic ^^