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The inordinate length of Ardja is due to these enormous comic accretions; the drama itself could be developed to its utmost extent in three hours.
The curtain plays a very important part in the entrance of an Ardja dancer. As in Topeng, the shaking of the curtain from within, the long hesitations, with drawals, half-exits, and renewed reluctance to emerge are a powerful element of suspense and excited anticipation. The difference is only in the temper of the two forms. The agitation of Topeng is replaced in Ardja by a long smooth, tentative curtain-drawing, which is in keeping with the slow tempo of the players and the play. Long before the curtain even begins to be withdrawn we hear the servant's voice singing behind

When she has sufficiently prepared her entrance she emerges, and winding leisurely about the stage repeatedly exhorts her mistress to appear, for she has made all ready. When the mistress has been exhorted long enough she will in her turn begin singing behind the closed curtain and all eyes will be fixed on it in anticipation of her slow and fascinating entry, drawing it aside with infinite deliberation, poised diagonally between its two wings, and at last winding out to zigzag in wide curves about the stage in contrary motion with her servant. The two dancers contrive to fill all the space with their dance, meeting and crossing and hastening away again between phrases of song or speech, with arms and fingers poised and ceaselessly turning, knees much bent every line and curve of the body harmoniously balanced.

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