Bali is the name of a province in Indonesia and also the name of the largest islands that are part of the province. In addition consists of the island of Bali, Bali provinceconsists of the islands smaller in the vicinity, namely the island of Nusa Penida, Nusa Lembongan Island, Nusa Ceningan Island and Serangan Island.
Bali lies between Java and Lombok Island. Denpasar is the capital of it's province, located in the south of the island. The majority of Balinese are Hindu. In the worldfamous Bali as a tourist destination with a unique variety of art-culture, especially for the Japanese and Australian tourists. Bali is also known as Island of the Gods and The Thousand Pura Island
Balinese Culture
Music
Balinese traditional music has similarities with traditional music in many other areas in Indonesia, for example in the use of the gamelan and various other percussionmusical instruments. Nevertheless, there are peculiarities in the technique of playingand his composition, for example in the form kecak, namely a form of singing thatsupposedly mimic monkeys. Similarly, a variety of gamelan are played even unique,for example Jegog gamelan, gamelan gong gede, gamelan xylophone, gamelan andgamelan Semar selunding Pegulingan. There is also music playing for ceremoniesNgaben Angklung and Bebonangan music played in a variety of other ceremonies.
Dance
Balinese dance expert I Made Bandem in the early 1980s never classify theseBalinese dances, among others, who belong to the guardian for example Berutuk,Sang Hyang Dedari, Rejang and Line Gede, bebali among others are Gambuh, Topeng Pajegan and Wayang Wong, whereas balih-balihan among others is the Legong,Parwa, Arja, Prembon and Joged and various other modern dance choreography.
One of the dances are very popular for tourists is the Kecak Dance. Around the1930s, Wayan Limbak worked with German painter Walter Spies to create thisdance based ontradition Sanghyang and parts of the story of Ramayana . WayanLimbak popularizing this dance while traveling the world with his troupe of Balinese dancers.
Balinese dance in general can be categorized into three groups, namely wali, the sacred art of dance performances, art bebali or dance performances for ceremonies and also for visitors and balih-balihan or the art of dance to entertainment the visitors.
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