BALINESE DANCE
Indonesia has a rich heritage of traditional dance styles...

Mixing cultural images and sounds has always fascinated me and in this case I cut Balinese dance moves to a song by Joy Enriquez called How Can I Not Love You from the movie Anna and the King.  ​

Indonesia has a rich heritage of traditional dance styles.  Balinese dance tends to be precise, shifting and jerky, like the accompanying gamelan music, which has abrupt shifts of tempo and dramatic changes between silence and crashing noise.

There's virtually no physical contact in Balinese dancing -- each dancer moves independently, but every movement of wrist, hand and finger is important.  Even facial expressions are carefully choreographed to convey the character of the dance.

Legong is the most graceful of Balinese dances.  A performance involves just three dancers -- the two Legongs and their 'attendant' known as the Condong.  The Legongs are identically dressed in lightly bound gold brocade.  Their faces are elaborately made up their eyebrows plucked and repainted, and their hair decorated with frangipanis.*

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                          * This caption is from Indonesia -- a Lonely Planet travel guide.