Story of Bali, Indonesia

The last group of six even "dug" strokes sets the tempo to come; one kempli beat for every two "dugs." Led by the raised mallet of the ugal player, the entire gamelan comes crashing down on the note dang right after the final drum stroke, making an explosive attack the Balinese call "byong." After a few flourishes the large gong sounds, the kempli starts tapping the beat, the jegogans and calungs enter, and the Baris melody proper begins.

Even more than, Indonesian dancing today has become a branch of learning. This is clear from the measure taken by the Indonesian Government in establishing the Dance Conservator, of Indonesia in Yogyakarta in 1961 followed by the Dance Academy of' Indonesia in 1963. The setting up of these two State institutes of dancing education is indisputable evidence that Indonesian dancing 'has become An' object of learned study.

From the sounding of the initial gong, the colotomic instruments and core melody cycle continuously until the end! Meanwhile, the rest of the instruments may be said to be in either a "poised" or an "active" state. In the former they are repeating prescribed patterns. In the latter they are somehow reacting to angsels-signals given by the dancer-by interrupting the flow of those patterns. The poised state is quiet, static and tense; the active state is explosive and kinetic.

The periods of Indonesian dancing discussed here have been delimited by the essential element in development. Since dancing practically grows and develops only if that process runs parallel with the development of the society supporting it, the most exact division into periods of dancing is that based on the development of its society.

Moving from the former to the latter is a matter of sudden release and violent crescendo. When the dancer completes the angsel movement the activated instruments simply drop out and remain silent for a moment, leaving only the colotomic insatruments, jegogans, and calungs. Soon they reenter on their patterns as before.The Period of Primitive Society covers the time from the first human societies up to about the year 400 A.D. The Indonesian social structure was still very primitive, and so we can say that dances of that period were still very simple or very primitive.During this period, which coincides with Indonesia's prehistoric period, Indonesian society was marked by mutual cooperation and the non-existence of classes in society. With such a social structure, the dancing of that period must have belonged to all members of the society.

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