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Barong Dance

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Barong Dance.
If you are on holiday in Bali, make sure you do not just relax in the hotel which is located on the beach; you have to watch the performance art of Balinese dance. Apart from a very famous Kecak dance, you will be charmed by the Barong Dance. 


This dance is very interesting because there are elements of action, drama and interesting story. Balinese Gamelan or music that accompanies the show is also very beautiful to hear as you will feel the atmosphere of the dance is more interesting. Barong Dance music is composed of in accordance with the dance scene, so you will feel in the performances of this dance. Costumes worn by dancers are also very supportive of the story and characters are displayed for you. 


This dance is a Pre-Hindu cultural heritage that uses tangible stuffed quadruped or ancient humans who have magical powers. Presumably the word comes from the word bahrwang barong or construed bear, an animal mythology that has magic powers, regarded as a protector. But in reality Barong in Bali is not only embodied in the four-legged animals but there is also a two-legged. The mask of Barong is made from wood which taken from places-a place armature such as graves, by because it Barong is an objects sacral which highly sanctified by the society Hindu Bali. This dance performance with or without the play, always start with a demonstration of gamelan performances are accompanied by varying such as gamelan gong kebyar.

In the development, then barong in Bali is not only manifested in the four-legged animals but there is also a two-legged, as for other types of Barong in Bali, namely:

a. Barong Ket (ketet) barong is the most widely available in Bali and the most frequently staged and has a kind of dance movement vocabulary is complete. Ketet Barong is a mix between a lion, tiger, cow or bona. Barong body is decorated with carved engravings made from leather, glass and fur attached is made of braksok, fibers or also of crow feathers.

In the show you will see barong is carried by 2 (two) dancers are called interpreters or interpreter saluk Bapang. This act generally describes the struggle between virtues and vice, where the theme is almost always the basis for the performing arts.
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b. Barong Bangkal big old mean old hog, it resembles a barong bangkal called barong or barong bangkung. Gamelan to accompany the gamelan Batel, in the play is very rarely accompanied by a barong bangkal staging the play and this is usually by way of ngelawang (staging) of one city to another).
c. Asu barong mask resembles the dog in particular, and there is a very sacred temple of Tabanan top Dawa Baturiti

d. Elephant barong that resembles an elephant, very sacred and one of them contained in the Village Singapadu.

e. Tiger barong in the play danced by two dancers, and there is also equipped with a sort Arja, who accompanying gamelan is gamelan Batel.

f. Landung barong, this dance is different from the already mentioned above. Barong Landung form of early humans are not animals but the two legs. In general Landung barong was made in pairs, consisting of the queen.  Lanang (Barong Landung male) and Queen Luh (Barong Landung women). Barong is called such because of its large and high (such as Ondel-ondel Jakarta). 

In some places in Bali there is Barong Landung also equipped with other types of barong Landung like Mantri, Baluh, Limbur and other players. 

 g. Blasblasan barong,  is also called kedingkling, barong Blasblasan is a form of staging is done ngelawang, dancers wearing only a mask with a mask of wayang wong plays a story footage excerpts from the Ramayana, which generally is a battle scene. Barong is a lot of the day performs in Galungan Hollyday and Brass and the dancers are usually escorts the child is a form anak. Gamelan Batel and some are kind of bebarongan (Batel gamelan equipped with reyong).

Besides the types mentioned above barong, there are also other types, namely barong other brutuk Trunyan contained in (a small village just off the east of Lake Batur).Barong is wearing the fur of dried banana leaves (Kraras) and very sacred by the people Trunyan.

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