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The style of the Poenta is always pompous; his dress and bearing are puffed up. His poses are often splendid, for he is the herald of his master's grandeur, but he is also the butt of the kartala's wit, and though he sometimes resents the parodies of himself, he is really much more at home in this society. The two vie with each other in extravagant improvisation's of speech and movement, comically taking up and completing each other, spurred on from peak to peak of glorious absurdity by the rocking mirth of actors, audience, and musicians.
Some of the best dancers of Bali play these parts. Their rhythmic invention is boundless; a commentary of the utmost brilliance on movements observed by a people whose perception of movement is singularly acute

Some plays offer unusual opportunities for comic dancing; the scene, for instance, in Made Oambaran where the Poenta and WidjIl and the hero take the place of the stone figures which Galoeh Daha has set up in her garden in the image of her lost love Mantri Koripan' and his two servants. She comes with her Inia to bring food to the images and of course does not notice that they are real men, though they devour the food and perform innumerable sly antics. The dancing muscles of the Widid's face as he covetously eyed the food and swallowed it in imagination, the fettered, impatient lust of the crouching Poenta as he watched the lady and her Inia bathing, were of an exquisite comique, enhanced by the sculptural immobility of Mantri Koripan. The garden scene in this play offers other enchanting opportunities to the comic dancers; the enraptured dance of a dwarf Widjil round a pool in which the goldfish proved to be spat-out betel was a masterpiece of delicate mimicry.

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