Pendet

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In 1968 a huge religious procession in Tabanan produced many versions of Pendet one was danced by a member of the household, who presented the family's offerings in a slow Pendet before the approaching wave of thousands of people. In large villages, a selected group of young girls, bare shouldered and formally dressed in wraps of gold cloth, carried silver bowls of flowers as they danced a more elaborated Pendet, choreographed in interweaving rows and files. When the procession settled before a small temple, old woment dressed in ordinary clothes began to dance still another from of Pendet They carried no offering but moved feverishly as if possessed by the music.

Recently, pendet was introduced to open the Legong, Here, the young girls are accomplished members of dance troupe, and their movements are coordinated an exact. Toward the finished of the dance, the girls make praying gestures and throw flowers to the audience a welcome and blessing to the public.

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