Legong Keraton Dance - Dances of Bali

Legong Kraton is a classical dance of Bali which has a very complex motion pembendaharaan and bound by the structure of percussion accompaniment that supposedly received influence from Dance Gambuh. Legong Keraton word consists of two words namely legong and palace. Legong word probably derived from the word "leg" which means a graceful dance movement. Graceful. While the "gong" means gambelan. "Leg" and "gong" were merged into legong which implies a movement bound, terutamaaksentuasinya by gambelan that go with it.

So the Legong Keraton is a dance palace diiiringi by gambelan. Legong court designation is the next progression. There is a presumption that the Legong Kraton Dance comes from Sang Hyang development.

At first legong from Sang Hyang Dance is a dance improvisation and then the motions of improvisation was arranged, composed according to the pattern or structure of pegambuhan (gambelan). Gerakaan-dance movements that build the Dance Palace is adapted to gambelan so that dance becomes a beautiful dance, dynamic and abstract. Gambelan who used to accompany this dance in the performing arts, new packaging is gambelan kebyar gong.

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