Kecak Dance Bali Tradition Special Feature
In Bali there is a kind of dance that is quite unique, and is played mainly by men, where the number of players in the tens or more dancers who sit in line and a circle with a specific rhythm called the vote "smack" as he raised his hands. It is described as rows of monkeys helping Rama against Ravana in the Ramayana story.
Kecak from Sanghyang ritual, that is the tradition in which the dancers will be unconscious for communication with the gods, or spirits of the ancestors who then convey to the public expectations. In kecak dance does not use musical instruments and using only kincringan imposed on the feet of the dancers who are playing characters of Ramayana. While the dancers in the circle wearing a checkered cloth wrapped around their waists.
Kecak dance is created in the year in the 1930s by Wayan Limbak and with a German painter Walter Spies. They create a dance based on ancient traditions and take sanghyang from other parts of the Ramayana story. This dance became popular when Wayan Balinese dancers Limbak with his tour around the world to introduce the Kecak dance. Until now, dance dance kecak become famous Balinese art.
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