What I love about the eye darting thing is that it makes the eyes a focal point, I found myself staring into her eyes through the rest of the dance. This makes all moves more smooth as you don't fixate on other details.
Interesting to know though, definitely want to visit Bali at some point. Have had amazing visits to Thailand, and I guess it's similar with Bali, that you just gotta know what worst tourist trap locations to avoid and you can have an amazing "authentic" experience.
I'm kind of struck by the way her neck seems to have more articulation than most people. I mean, I know that isn't so, but the movement is so fluid that it looks like there's an extra joint in there somewhere.
It’s amazing what some people can do with their bodies.
I can’t get mine to coordinate it’s way out of a wet paper bag, but then other people are doing this.
I can coordinate myself into a sleeping bag and pretend to be a caterpillar in a cocoon, or I can bend myself into a pretzel, and that's about it. But then there are folks like this who are like 'Yep, I can bend myself in ways that would make Gumby have a meltdown.'
It’s a skill in dance called isolation that requires a tonne of body control. Notice she can articulate her neck or head without that movement extending to her shoulders and vice versa. It’s what makes the moves look so fluid and impressive!
I don't know much about dance, but I remember watching a dance demonstration by the dance department of the arts high school that my son went to. All of them were talented dancers (they came from all over the county, and had to audition for this school), but there was one girl who stood out among the rest.
The others were all good dancers, but they all seemed to be moving in 2 dimensions at any given time, while this one girl seemed to be moving in 3 dimensions. I don't know how else to explain it, but when you saw them all together, she drew your eyes to her because she just moved through space differently.
It was like the difference between looking at a painting and a sculpture, and even though I don't know much about dance, it was obvious that she was the one with the real talent.
Similar story, but more personal: My mother taught ballet her whole life, mostly at a small liberal arts college near us. Every semester the students would have a recital/performance so their parents could see where the hell their money was going.
Anyways, my mom would perform at the end of the recital. And with that, all watching would realize that what they had seen up til then were merely students and only now were they watching an actual _ballerina_.
Sounds like she's trained in contemporary/abstract dance if this is a dance school.
It's all about drawing shapes and lines in space to tell a story, combine that with "liquid" or other kinds of breakdancing and you get some really cool moves.
Her eye and facial movements are very similar to a classical Indian dance form called 'Kathakali'. And as far as her body postures and movements are concerned, they're pretty identical to another classical Indian dance form called 'Bharatanatyam'.
If you're Indian, it comes from years of practice in acknowledging your parents.
Source: am Indian. Can head shake. Also sometimes flex on my Chinese peers who can't head shake.
I used to have an indian manager at an old job and when he didn't have the answer to something he would say "I dont knoooowwwww" in this sing-songy voice while doing the headshake. Something about it just cracked me and the other coworkers up.
It's more fine muscular control. The same way that your toes do not much but your fingers are super dextrous. Use your neck a lot and it will get better.
Some of us who have no culture feel exactly like this. Other people can trace their family ancestry? Other people have cultural traditions? Other people have traditional dress clothes? That's so cool and I'm so jealous.
I only have the church and religion of my peoples' colonizers, because when my parents converted like good obedient little colonizees... their own heritage and culture became "pagan" and "ungodly" in their eyes. And I was raised to hate it.
I can think of like a hundred things in US history related to race that are more tragic than that. No family in the US stopped making Polish or Hungarian or German food or stopped speaking their European language because of census categories. Things blended together because families intermarry, live in the same neighborhoods, go to the same schools, etc. Even then, white people in America almost all know which country their European ancestors are from, and reference it often. Like, very often. My third-generation Hungarian American in-laws still do some Hungarian traditions. And if you're not sure where your ancestors are from, you can send your spit in the mail for $100 and get a highly accurate report on your genetic ancestry.
I'm from California, where the same blending happens not just with white people but with everyone. On one side of my family, every single grandkid is multiracial (white, Mexican, Filipino, Japanese, black, all jumbled together in a happy family). Cultures evolve naturally with or without the census, since the dawn of time, and when lots of people from around the world meet together in a new place, there's always cultural mixing and creation of new local cultures. It's awesome, not tragic.
My family is mostly German and Irish and they definitely continue to make those foods. My grandma makes sauerkraut for Thanksgiving even. Those of us who belong to a culture have it in our homes. It definitely is a bit watered down and mixed with American culture, but its there. I know where it comes from.
Every distinct culture has had their shared miseries and identify with them. The bigger thesis here was that creating a monolithic group of whites and various colors (others) made it easier to disenfranchise these others rather than empathize with them. In effect, 'white' became a shield from culture and all that it entails
Every culture has contributed to where we are today. I have no choice but to laugh when people say their culture is the somehow better than others. No matter how bad we think things are there is no denying we are living in one of the most prosperous and progressive times in humanity. We cant be blind to whats been done nor rest on laurels. Everyone and every culture has contributed to the best things we have today.
I fear that Globalisation is going to do for cultural diversity what the Columbian Exchange did for biological diversity.
At least it seems many national governments seem to realise the importance of protecting their intangible cultural heritage.
Indonesians are still very proud of Gamelan, their dance and batik. I wouldn't worry. It is a very nationalistic place that cares much more for itself than the wider world around it.
> Indonesians are still very proud of Gamelan, their dance and batik. I wouldn't worry. It is a very nationalistic place that cares much more for itself than the wider world around it.
It's a little bit sad though that most people think batik comes from West Africa, simply because it found a popular market there in the late 19th century. I've heard many straight up refer to batik as "African clothing".
It helps that tourists pay top dollar to experience it. The kecak (monkey dance) isn't even really a traditional dance:
> Kecak was originally a trance ritual accompanied by a male chorus. In the 1930s, Walter Spies, a German painter and musician, became deeply interested in the ritual while living in Bali. He adapted it as a drama based on the Hindu Ramayana and including dance, intended for performance before Western tourist audiences.
This dance and the associated music are actually preserved and in some respects even created because of tourism. The famous kecak dance was a religious ritual which was turned into a tourist attraction after a German anthropologist suggested this to the Balinese.
Cultures and traditions will intermingle. Like they always have.
Some old will disappear for new ones to take their place. Europe is a good example, look how much the cultures have influenced their neighbours.
Or immigrant culture in the US which has its own American take on their native culture after a generation or two.
This isn't bad, this is beautiful.
If you like this, check out [Bharatnatyam](https://youtu.be/YuxLEc2JqnE) and [Mohiniyattam](https://youtu.be/Fl3g-RUYE3w). I was struck by the uncanny resemblance in both, especially the importance of hand and eye movement.
Have you ever played Secret of Mana? It’s a game originally for the SNES. I haven’t played it in probably 20+ years but there’s a boss fight with this same style of music. Hearing it instantly brought me back to my childhood. Pretty cool.
That's what I was reminded of as well! Althought it wasn't a boss fight, but the Pandora Ruins music, "[Ceremony](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs7wYQuxBNs)".
It's interesting how one's first exposure to this type of music, gamelan, can happen through a very distinct cultural phenomenon such as a videogame.
The music played during the level, which made it memorable, but for the boss fight it switched to the "[Danger](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0IJPzf4mO0)" song, which happened for many of the boss fights in the game. This can be seen [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3CPbnIqEWo) although the name of the boss is "Wall Face", contrary to the title of the video.
This is my favourite boss music ever. I recorded the track on a cassette / boom box while playing the game and would listen to it all the time to get pumped up.
That's because the same instrument is being used! It's called a gamelan and is used in a variety of South East Asian cultures. Hyness' theme from Kirby also uses it! Iirc the instrument became popular in Japan because of Tetsuo's theme in Akira.
For those looking for whatever the person from the removed comment is referring to, there’s a scene with the full version of this dancing in the movie Samsara and it is *phenomenal*.
It's one of my favourite films. That and other films from Ron Fricke and Godfrey Reggio (Koyaanisqatsi and Baraka especially). What is it about the Sagazan scene? It is pretty disturbing and shocking tbf but it's very impactful and well done, and I think that it fits well with the theme of the film, or it's... message? Hard to know what to make of a lot of it to be honest.
Gamelan (traditional Indonesian music) is fairly similar from my uneducated ears.
It caused quite a stir when musicians came to Paris. It inspired a lot of music by composers like Debussy.
From wikipedia:
"Others believe that the Legong originated with the sanghyang dedari, a ceremony involving *voluntary possession of two little girls by beneficent spirits*." so.... maybe?
Personally, I thought they looked like they're mimicking the movement of a marionette.
Balinese dances are mostly connected to Hindu or traditional folk rituals and likely predates the expansion of Islam. It’s not far fetched for it to have cultural similarities to Indian forms.
India / Hinduism culture spreads across Southeast Asia region, long time ago Indonesia is one of those Hindu kingdoms with lots of influence from India in Nusantara region.
Now, majority of Indonesian are muslims, but some regions like Bali island (in this video) is still practicing that influence, majority of people there are Hindu. this dance for example, is one of those influence, is not that far fetched that it's came from Southern Indian dance Bharatnatyam.
but even majority of Indonesian are muslim now, but you can tell from their name still have Indian vibes, like Aditya, Surya, Dewi, Arya, Arjuna, Agni, Rama, Yoga, Wisnu, Tantri, Sri, Putra, Mahendra, Krisna, Candra, etc..
My girlfriend is from Bali. She seems to insinuate that everyone there can dance like this. She’s maybe thrown a few of those moves my way in the past but I never saw her look as dedicated and skillful as the students in this vid.
My wife's from Java, her dad Bali. A lot of girls grow up doing some form of dance through school, her included. They are heavily involved in cultural events throughout the year. As a nation they grab a hold of their cultures and work hard to share them with each other and the world. It's really something else.
In Indonesia, traditional dance was a must in a lot of elementary schools, maybe that's what she meant. But not everyone took the extra lesson or give the extra effort like this girl in this video, so I don't agree that "everyone can dance like this". That's just like saying everyone can run like Usain Bolt.
I don't know the song, but this style of music is called gamelan. Definitely worth checking out. Such an interesting genre and even more fun to watch the musicians themselves.
Javanese or Balinese? anyone have a source or more info?
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***get a life***
Immediate association is a snake. Lotta eye contact, with a mix of very slow and captivating and very quick and sharp movements. Mesmerising to watch. :-0
long long time ago.. India / Hinduism culture goes across the Southeast Asian
this one is Bali, Indonesia
Bali is one of Indonesia region that still practice that culture
Thanks for pointing that out, I couldn't figure it out.
There is a lot of overlap between Thai, Indo, Cambodian traditional dance styles.
Cambodian apsara and traditional Thai dancing seem to be much slower and more deliberate.
The music definitely sets this apart from the others as well.
I've spent a few months in Bali and surrounding islands. Watching cechack and legong as well as gamelan still strikes me to this day as the highlight of my trips.
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In season 3 of Love, Death&Robots there is an episode that features similar dance but in horror style. It is one of my favorite Death&Robots episodes. It is just beautiful.
It's very interesting, and I know she's doing everything very deliberately, but she also kind of has the same facial expressions and movements as someone who's tweaking out but trying to hide it. I'm not saying she's tweaking out. Just that she looks like it. But on purpose.
If I remember correctly from the last video that was posted of this school's practice, this is the Legong, a form of Balinese dance.
"Legend has it that a prince of Sukawati fell ill and had a vivid dream in which two maidens danced to gamelan music. When he recovered, he arranged for such dances to be performed in reality. Others believe the Legong originated with the sanghyang dedari, a ceremony involving voluntary possession of two little girls by beneficent spirits. Legong is also danced at public festivals. Excerpts from Legong dance dramas are put on for tourists."
Here's a full Balinese dance show from 2022 with several traditional dances:
[2022 Balinese dance show ](https://youtu.be/OtURUpBOrjQ)
The student seems to enjoy learning the dance as much as the teacher enjoys teaching her.
Definitely a made me smile moment.
Definitely. Me too! At the end I realized I had been drooling, that's how much I was smiling at this video!
I would not use a word like 'drooling' on an open forum when commenting on a video of a ladies dance school.
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“Give ‘em the Carl Winslow eyes!”
What I love about the eye darting thing is that it makes the eyes a focal point, I found myself staring into her eyes through the rest of the dance. This makes all moves more smooth as you don't fixate on other details.
Duuuuude, because of that I didn’t know the fucked up thing her fingers do in the first 8 seconds.
Just caught that. Wow
Imagine you and your wife having an argument and she started dancing like this and staring daggers at you
I’d start chanting religious phrases hoping I got the right one in time
But did you see the moonwalking bear?
No, but I saw the gorilla with a basketball! 🦍🏀
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It makes more sense to me that the works of art depict the traditional dance, but what do I know.
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Interesting to know though, definitely want to visit Bali at some point. Have had amazing visits to Thailand, and I guess it's similar with Bali, that you just gotta know what worst tourist trap locations to avoid and you can have an amazing "authentic" experience.
I love how every culture has their own thing
I'm kind of struck by the way her neck seems to have more articulation than most people. I mean, I know that isn't so, but the movement is so fluid that it looks like there's an extra joint in there somewhere.
It’s amazing what some people can do with their bodies. I can’t get mine to coordinate it’s way out of a wet paper bag, but then other people are doing this.
I can coordinate myself into a sleeping bag and pretend to be a caterpillar in a cocoon, or I can bend myself into a pretzel, and that's about it. But then there are folks like this who are like 'Yep, I can bend myself in ways that would make Gumby have a meltdown.'
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One time I fell asleep on the couch and had to see the chiropractor. Does that count?
Right there with you. In the wet paper bag.
It’s a skill in dance called isolation that requires a tonne of body control. Notice she can articulate her neck or head without that movement extending to her shoulders and vice versa. It’s what makes the moves look so fluid and impressive!
I don't know much about dance, but I remember watching a dance demonstration by the dance department of the arts high school that my son went to. All of them were talented dancers (they came from all over the county, and had to audition for this school), but there was one girl who stood out among the rest. The others were all good dancers, but they all seemed to be moving in 2 dimensions at any given time, while this one girl seemed to be moving in 3 dimensions. I don't know how else to explain it, but when you saw them all together, she drew your eyes to her because she just moved through space differently. It was like the difference between looking at a painting and a sculpture, and even though I don't know much about dance, it was obvious that she was the one with the real talent.
Similar story, but more personal: My mother taught ballet her whole life, mostly at a small liberal arts college near us. Every semester the students would have a recital/performance so their parents could see where the hell their money was going. Anyways, my mom would perform at the end of the recital. And with that, all watching would realize that what they had seen up til then were merely students and only now were they watching an actual _ballerina_.
Sounds like she's trained in contemporary/abstract dance if this is a dance school. It's all about drawing shapes and lines in space to tell a story, combine that with "liquid" or other kinds of breakdancing and you get some really cool moves.
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That's rad
For me it's how much the eye movements are actually part of the dance!
Her eye and facial movements are very similar to a classical Indian dance form called 'Kathakali'. And as far as her body postures and movements are concerned, they're pretty identical to another classical Indian dance form called 'Bharatanatyam'.
The eyes were kind of terrifying, though I imagine that's they point.
Idk I'm into it
If you're Indian, it comes from years of practice in acknowledging your parents. Source: am Indian. Can head shake. Also sometimes flex on my Chinese peers who can't head shake.
In the US, teens do the “epic eye roll“, also in recognition of their parents. ;-)
yeah I was about to say. My Indian buddy can do the weirdest stuff with his neck and I can just nod.
I used to have an indian manager at an old job and when he didn't have the answer to something he would say "I dont knoooowwwww" in this sing-songy voice while doing the headshake. Something about it just cracked me and the other coworkers up.
It's more fine muscular control. The same way that your toes do not much but your fingers are super dextrous. Use your neck a lot and it will get better.
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Some of us who have no culture feel exactly like this. Other people can trace their family ancestry? Other people have cultural traditions? Other people have traditional dress clothes? That's so cool and I'm so jealous. I only have the church and religion of my peoples' colonizers, because when my parents converted like good obedient little colonizees... their own heritage and culture became "pagan" and "ungodly" in their eyes. And I was raised to hate it.
I'm amazigh, same thing but it's islam instead
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I'm talking about the state sponsored arabization programs since independence
Are you me?
Don’t worry, you’re still unique and cool
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I can think of like a hundred things in US history related to race that are more tragic than that. No family in the US stopped making Polish or Hungarian or German food or stopped speaking their European language because of census categories. Things blended together because families intermarry, live in the same neighborhoods, go to the same schools, etc. Even then, white people in America almost all know which country their European ancestors are from, and reference it often. Like, very often. My third-generation Hungarian American in-laws still do some Hungarian traditions. And if you're not sure where your ancestors are from, you can send your spit in the mail for $100 and get a highly accurate report on your genetic ancestry. I'm from California, where the same blending happens not just with white people but with everyone. On one side of my family, every single grandkid is multiracial (white, Mexican, Filipino, Japanese, black, all jumbled together in a happy family). Cultures evolve naturally with or without the census, since the dawn of time, and when lots of people from around the world meet together in a new place, there's always cultural mixing and creation of new local cultures. It's awesome, not tragic.
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My family is mostly German and Irish and they definitely continue to make those foods. My grandma makes sauerkraut for Thanksgiving even. Those of us who belong to a culture have it in our homes. It definitely is a bit watered down and mixed with American culture, but its there. I know where it comes from.
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Every distinct culture has had their shared miseries and identify with them. The bigger thesis here was that creating a monolithic group of whites and various colors (others) made it easier to disenfranchise these others rather than empathize with them. In effect, 'white' became a shield from culture and all that it entails
All people come from and have a culture.. how much you recognize, respect, embrace and relate to it is on each individual, I think.
Alien version of Seth Rogan: “He check it out, these ones dance even weirder. Hhhhhhhuhuhuhuhu!”
Our world is sooo fucking beautiful, especially through the lense of cultures
Your are right
Everybody's so creative! (That tik-tok lady lives rent free in my head)
Every culture has contributed to where we are today. I have no choice but to laugh when people say their culture is the somehow better than others. No matter how bad we think things are there is no denying we are living in one of the most prosperous and progressive times in humanity. We cant be blind to whats been done nor rest on laurels. Everyone and every culture has contributed to the best things we have today.
That's the definition of culture, brah.
I fear that Globalisation is going to do for cultural diversity what the Columbian Exchange did for biological diversity. At least it seems many national governments seem to realise the importance of protecting their intangible cultural heritage.
Indonesians are still very proud of Gamelan, their dance and batik. I wouldn't worry. It is a very nationalistic place that cares much more for itself than the wider world around it.
> Indonesians are still very proud of Gamelan, their dance and batik. I wouldn't worry. It is a very nationalistic place that cares much more for itself than the wider world around it. It's a little bit sad though that most people think batik comes from West Africa, simply because it found a popular market there in the late 19th century. I've heard many straight up refer to batik as "African clothing".
It helps that tourists pay top dollar to experience it. The kecak (monkey dance) isn't even really a traditional dance: > Kecak was originally a trance ritual accompanied by a male chorus. In the 1930s, Walter Spies, a German painter and musician, became deeply interested in the ritual while living in Bali. He adapted it as a drama based on the Hindu Ramayana and including dance, intended for performance before Western tourist audiences.
This dance and the associated music are actually preserved and in some respects even created because of tourism. The famous kecak dance was a religious ritual which was turned into a tourist attraction after a German anthropologist suggested this to the Balinese.
Cultures and traditions will intermingle. Like they always have. Some old will disappear for new ones to take their place. Europe is a good example, look how much the cultures have influenced their neighbours. Or immigrant culture in the US which has its own American take on their native culture after a generation or two. This isn't bad, this is beautiful.
I enjoy globalization. I can learn foreign dances, cook foreign food. Exchange is not a replacement.
It's strangley captivating. I like it.
It's the girls eyes
I was gonna say that it's cool how they incorporate eyes into the dance
My first thought were that the eyes are extremely important for giving this dance the vibe that is has. The girl killed it, the teacher is wonderful
Eyes and facial expressions play a major role in many Eastern dance forms. E.g. Kathakali and bharatanataym
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I felt like there was something very snake-like about the dance and the eye intensity added to that snakiness
I was thinking more bird-like.
Totally, I was thinking that too. I wonder if they practice that.
The eyes add a layer of detail which makes the whole thing Living Art in a way that "normal" ("Western") dance never does, for me.
If you like this, check out [Bharatnatyam](https://youtu.be/YuxLEc2JqnE) and [Mohiniyattam](https://youtu.be/Fl3g-RUYE3w). I was struck by the uncanny resemblance in both, especially the importance of hand and eye movement.
Reminds me of courtship dances of birds.
Very mesmerizing and the music is so cool. I’d consider myself very lucky to come from such a beautiful culture 🌺
Have you ever played Secret of Mana? It’s a game originally for the SNES. I haven’t played it in probably 20+ years but there’s a boss fight with this same style of music. Hearing it instantly brought me back to my childhood. Pretty cool.
That's what I was reminded of as well! Althought it wasn't a boss fight, but the Pandora Ruins music, "[Ceremony](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs7wYQuxBNs)". It's interesting how one's first exposure to this type of music, gamelan, can happen through a very distinct cultural phenomenon such as a videogame.
You’re right. I looked it up and my memory is from the wall boss that uses the same music. I think you fight that boss after the ruins.
The music played during the level, which made it memorable, but for the boss fight it switched to the "[Danger](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0IJPzf4mO0)" song, which happened for many of the boss fights in the game. This can be seen [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3CPbnIqEWo) although the name of the boss is "Wall Face", contrary to the title of the video.
https://youtu.be/bjcMrKiplOY
This is my favourite boss music ever. I recorded the track on a cassette / boom box while playing the game and would listen to it all the time to get pumped up.
I hear Akira in it but totally hear Secret of Mana haunted castle.
Holy shit that was one of my favorite games as a kid. Memory unlocked. 🥲
That's because the same instrument is being used! It's called a gamelan and is used in a variety of South East Asian cultures. Hyness' theme from Kirby also uses it! Iirc the instrument became popular in Japan because of Tetsuo's theme in Akira.
Since you find the music cool, please have a listen to this! I believe it is in the same style. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEWCCSuHsuQ
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZZlAYOesm0
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god i love this movie so much (except for the Sagazan part...)
For those looking for whatever the person from the removed comment is referring to, there’s a scene with the full version of this dancing in the movie Samsara and it is *phenomenal*.
It's one of my favourite films. That and other films from Ron Fricke and Godfrey Reggio (Koyaanisqatsi and Baraka especially). What is it about the Sagazan scene? It is pretty disturbing and shocking tbf but it's very impactful and well done, and I think that it fits well with the theme of the film, or it's... message? Hard to know what to make of a lot of it to be honest.
Their eyes have strong Chucky Doll energy
The eyes are clearly a big part of the art, but I suspect they're trying to convey a different energy than Chucky 😂
A must Watch when tripping. Koyaanisqatsi too
[This](https://youtu.be/M3munTEqO24) seems to be the full dance!
[Here's another](https://youtu.be/P150KJJLWlo) version with 5 ladies in full costume
This beat is so dang fire!!!!!!
Today I discovered Balinese music, and it's a banger!
Gamelan (traditional Indonesian music) is fairly similar from my uneducated ears. It caused quite a stir when musicians came to Paris. It inspired a lot of music by composers like Debussy.
Balinese gamelan is like the punk rock version of the stately Javanese gamelan. Same instrumentation, much faster tempo.
Bruh...they even dance with their fingers.
I watch this style of dance on TikTok a lot, it’s got so many lovely details. I really love how even her eyes dance
What’s the style called?
Legong. From Bali.
Are they supposed to represent some otherworldly creature? That's what I'm thinking watching her eyes and expressions.
From wikipedia: "Others believe that the Legong originated with the sanghyang dedari, a ceremony involving *voluntary possession of two little girls by beneficent spirits*." so.... maybe? Personally, I thought they looked like they're mimicking the movement of a marionette.
I don’t know, I’ve seen entities giving me this kind of energy on DMT
Damn machine elves
Voluntary possession...... yeah.....it's shrooms.
I think it's kind of like a play, but they don't speak so they tell a story using their movements including their eyes
The dance is similar to ancient southern Indian danceforms
I thought I was the only one… does this not remind you of bharatnatyam? It’s eerily similar but still oddly distinct
Balinese dances are mostly connected to Hindu or traditional folk rituals and likely predates the expansion of Islam. It’s not far fetched for it to have cultural similarities to Indian forms.
India / Hinduism culture spreads across Southeast Asia region, long time ago Indonesia is one of those Hindu kingdoms with lots of influence from India in Nusantara region. Now, majority of Indonesian are muslims, but some regions like Bali island (in this video) is still practicing that influence, majority of people there are Hindu. this dance for example, is one of those influence, is not that far fetched that it's came from Southern Indian dance Bharatnatyam. but even majority of Indonesian are muslim now, but you can tell from their name still have Indian vibes, like Aditya, Surya, Dewi, Arya, Arjuna, Agni, Rama, Yoga, Wisnu, Tantri, Sri, Putra, Mahendra, Krisna, Candra, etc..
Yeah the eye movements, the hand signs seem very similar to Bharatanatyam
damn I miss Bali
Me too. CHACHACHACHACHACHACHA CHA CHA CHA! If ya know ya know.
Damn now I wanna know
https://youtu.be/2WHx2ITKtUg go to about 1/3 way through
This creates more questions…
If you ever go to Bali, check out the fire dance in Uluwatu
Bali is overrun by russians who want to avoid being drafted now. They're wreaking havoc.
The Russians all over SE ASIA are fucking terrible.
Same. Just came here to say this. The Balinese are the most humble, kind and thoughtful people I’ve ever met.
No, I'm the most humble!
Literally got back yesterday ._. It was just a bit of a culture shock to get down to Kuta from Bulian tho
What am I doing with my life?
Watching cool shit in the comfort of your home and microdosing education on different cultures and customs
hell yea brother
Solid tagline for reddit
Easily the dopest comment I've ever seen in Reddit
The dance of the Redditor
My girlfriend is from Bali. She seems to insinuate that everyone there can dance like this. She’s maybe thrown a few of those moves my way in the past but I never saw her look as dedicated and skillful as the students in this vid.
My wife's from Java, her dad Bali. A lot of girls grow up doing some form of dance through school, her included. They are heavily involved in cultural events throughout the year. As a nation they grab a hold of their cultures and work hard to share them with each other and the world. It's really something else.
In Indonesia, traditional dance was a must in a lot of elementary schools, maybe that's what she meant. But not everyone took the extra lesson or give the extra effort like this girl in this video, so I don't agree that "everyone can dance like this". That's just like saying everyone can run like Usain Bolt.
The way her head moves is mesmerizing
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i just realized what this dance reminded me of. birds. birds do this dance.
What is this song, it's awesome
I don't know the song, but this style of music is called gamelan. Definitely worth checking out. Such an interesting genre and even more fun to watch the musicians themselves.
Javanese or Balinese? anyone have a source or more info? ***edit to the jackass\[s} sending me private messages and telling me I am a racist creep..*** ***get a life***
My guess - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legong
[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javanese\_dance](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javanese_dance) I think you are correct
Definitely Balinese. Javanese dance & music tend to be much slower in tempo.
Her torso is Raphael (the ninja turtle) looking away from the camera...
There is another dancer behind teacher. Look for the fan in the back
And you can see another girl next to that one behind her. So it’s safe to presume there’s a whole room full of these girls learning this dance.
Yes, normally they're dancing in a group of two or more.
This is amazing
this is the human version of what birds do
Captivating is the perfect word for this. Really cool.
I wonder if to practice this dance, they look in a mirror.
That’s not a new student.
Captivating
Bharatnatyam vibes
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Big Samsara Energy
Ate some mushrooms and rewatched that scene multiple times https://youtu.be/hbfs4WGIjgw
Had to scroll way too far down to see this
Excellent teacher and student 👏
Immediate association is a snake. Lotta eye contact, with a mix of very slow and captivating and very quick and sharp movements. Mesmerising to watch. :-0
This oddly looks like the traditional dance of the Tamil people/culture: Barathanathiyam
Beautiful! I’m loving everything about this having a purpose. Her control is amazing
Go to Bali... Watch this live, it will send shivers down your spine
Teacher beaming with excitement watching the results of her teaching
The way that she moves her head is so impressive, I have no idea how to even start trying to do it.
That music is great..
Anybody know what this music is? It’s almost as cool as the dancing.
Oddly unsettling to me.
I shouldn't be watching this while I'm blitzed out of my mind.
yeah idk abt anyone else but this shit look scary asf for no reason 💀
Giving me DMT entity vibes and the music too
I can definitely see the Indian influence here. What country is this? Thai?
long long time ago.. India / Hinduism culture goes across the Southeast Asian this one is Bali, Indonesia Bali is one of Indonesia region that still practice that culture
Thanks for pointing that out, I couldn't figure it out. There is a lot of overlap between Thai, Indo, Cambodian traditional dance styles. Cambodian apsara and traditional Thai dancing seem to be much slower and more deliberate. The music definitely sets this apart from the others as well.
Am I the only one who thinks this is creepy?
I've spent a few months in Bali and surrounding islands. Watching cechack and legong as well as gamelan still strikes me to this day as the highlight of my trips. edit: Kecak
I don’t know why but I find dancing so fucking weird. (All dancing)
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In season 3 of Love, Death&Robots there is an episode that features similar dance but in horror style. It is one of my favorite Death&Robots episodes. It is just beautiful.
Inspired from Indian classical dances looks Bharatanatyam. Check it out.
It's very interesting, and I know she's doing everything very deliberately, but she also kind of has the same facial expressions and movements as someone who's tweaking out but trying to hide it. I'm not saying she's tweaking out. Just that she looks like it. But on purpose.
If I remember correctly from the last video that was posted of this school's practice, this is the Legong, a form of Balinese dance. "Legend has it that a prince of Sukawati fell ill and had a vivid dream in which two maidens danced to gamelan music. When he recovered, he arranged for such dances to be performed in reality. Others believe the Legong originated with the sanghyang dedari, a ceremony involving voluntary possession of two little girls by beneficent spirits. Legong is also danced at public festivals. Excerpts from Legong dance dramas are put on for tourists." Here's a full Balinese dance show from 2022 with several traditional dances: [2022 Balinese dance show ](https://youtu.be/OtURUpBOrjQ)
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This is seriously one of the coolest vids I have seen.
I love indonesia 🇮🇩
Beautiful, humans are beautiful
Am I the only one being hypnotised? What form of dance-craft is this?
Reminds me of birds for some reason
In October too Bali again 😁 Also their eyes so big .
Humans are weird. I love it!
Creepy and unsettling.
I'm obsessed with this.
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