Bali Dance Festival 2009

30th BALI ART FESTIVAL Legong Leko dance Jun 21, '08 1:44 AM
for everyone
Legong is a long-established genre of Balinese dance that
achieved its modern form between about 1915 and 1935. The genre is
regarded as a treasury of the movements for Balinese women’s dance,
and no dancer’s training is complete if she lacks a solid grounding in
legong. In the past, legong dances were presented as a secular entertainment
for the village nobility—hence the name legong keraton, which
means palace legong. Legong is now performed for Balinese as an entertainment
at festivals and major social events. It is most often presented
at temple ceremonies, where, being a secular dance (tari balih-balihan),
it is relegated to the outer courtyard, a nonsacral space. It is given also
at concerts specially organized for tourists. In these, the legong dance
is one of a potpourri of dances most of which
Tari Leko or Leko dance is basically is a kind of legong dance come from Tista Village Tabanan regency - Bali