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She is conveyed away, and the troop of spear-dancers advance in a sidelong movement towards the gamelan pointing their lances, then kneel in front of the offerings. The Boris head-dress and the Bird's are laid upon the offerings. The pemangkoe prays over a chicken, which he holds up by its open wings, and gives at last to a man in the front of the kneeling group of dancers, who bites its head o He is given water in a banana-leaf and held over the fire, and falls back in a sort of momentary trance.

They all rise and lean their lances against the bal4; then kneel outside the temple gateway and remove the flowers from their crowns, praying over each flower as they throw it away.

One almost feels, so perplexed is his air, that he was all the time searching for this magic syllable to put an end to the babel, and now at last has hit on the right combination.
Song and tjak numbers alternate, each song being sung first in its esoteric form, and again in its so called interpretation. The multiplicities of concerted movements performed by the boys are also many times repeated. At first one is astounded by the ingenuity of the counterpoint, even within one row. But one soon begins to feel that their prodigious syncopations and vertiginous accelerandos and rallentando would be still more effective if reduced to half their actual length. Before half-time two of the girls who are going to take part in the Ardja episode to which the Djanger is a prelude, stand up and do a dance in the style of Legong. They then go out and dress, eat sirih, drink coconut, etc., and return as characters of the play. A favorite episode is Arjuna Vivaha, in which the two dancers will be the Vidyadharis or heavenly nymphs who are sent by the gods to entice Arjuna out of his meditation, the Daaa acting as his penasar or vizir

Or it may be a scene from the Bharata Yuddha or a Javanese or Balinese romance. The Djanger continues during this scene as a muted background of movement, often beautiful in its effect; the almost imperceptible vibration of the girls, the spell weaving of the boys, as they rock slightly to and fro with hands in perpetual motion, and an occasional low cry or accent, forming a vivid frame for the action. it was no doubt to make Djanger more interesting that it became thus connected with Ardja; partly because Ardja can be modem as well as classical, partly because the elementary gamelan of Djanger, percussion, flute, and drums, resembles that of Ardja. Neither, as we have seen, had originally any instrumental accompaniment.
But Djanger, which has as respectable a religious origin as any dance in Bali, has been caught up in the train of the Malay opera, and made to serve as a frame for a curious Oriento European bastard known as Stamboel, which has introduced various very 'modeeran' features to the Balinese stage, stockings, football shorts, and jerseys, spectacles, the reach-me-down with all its accessories ... mufflers, ties, shirt-studs, etc.

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