Tari Legong (Legong Dance)
The Legong dance might be the most interesting and graceful dance in the island, A legong is a girl, a young girl not older than early teens. According to the legend, this dance was inspired by the imagination of a king in 19 century. Others said that Legong was inspired by the dream of a King about goddess, the King then search the entire kingdom to find dance gurus and train them hard to make the dream close to reality.
The Legong Dance is a classic dance that has a very complex library of movement that flow along with gamelan. The word “Legong” is from the word “leg” mean elastic, elegance, and the word “gong” mean the music, so the Leg - Gong is a dance represents the epitomy of grace and femininity. The dancer has to let all the energy of the gamelan’s sounds flow to their body untill you feel shaking. The hands are the most mesmerizing, as the arms move up and about, the fingers are doing a dance of their own. They can make individual pairs of fingers flutter simultaneously, at the same time, the eyes are darting from left to right.
The story behind legong is very stylized and symbolic, involves three dancers, the two legong and their attendant, the congong. The legongs are beautifully dressed tightly with gold brocade that so surprising they can move so rapidly.
You can find Legong dance performance every Monday and Sunday nights at 7:30pm at the Puri Saren Palace Ubud.
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10 Responses to “Tari Legong (Legong Dance)”
February 27th, 2007 at 11:22 pm
Tell more information about the dance because it is an imported event
March 1st, 2007 at 4:50 am
hi Caroline,
I am very sorry I have seen your comment get listed in spam filter. Ok about your comment … what specific information would you like to know about the dance?
March 7th, 2007 at 11:27 pm
hi dee,
maybe you could give a little more about the history and specific details where the dance is performed and the price ticket. Some more pictures…. just more information!
thanks
March 9th, 2007 at 4:09 am
hi caroline,
I will try to find it for you … and get a bit detail about this dance.
March 12th, 2007 at 1:57 am
Thanks alots
Caroline
July 17th, 2007 at 10:50 pm
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October 31st, 2007 at 12:45 am
hi…! well i would like to say i like the information but can you give me some detail? well i have a project with legong keraton dance in my school. so i need to find the primary resource that i need to interview. if you let me interview you please e-mail me. i hope you would like to share your information.
thx,
dcutie
February 19th, 2008 at 3:45 am
hi um…………… this is got nothin 2 do with dancing but could u put some info about comunity life eg;how they work together,crime and punish ment,banjars.villages and islands
March 17th, 2008 at 11:37 pm
suka sekali…it’s cool tradisional dance,i am proud have cool and unique culture..
August 10th, 2008 at 10:24 am
Haiii,
thanks for the definition, i was looking for it
makasih ya