Barong Dance

Barong Dance is one of Balinese dance which is a pre-Hindu culture apart heritage Sangyang is dance Barong dance. The word comes from the word bahruang barong which means the animal bears, an animal is a mythology that has supernatural powers, is regarded as a protector of animals.

In its development, then barong in Bali is not only embodied in the four-legged animals but there is also a two-footed, as for the types available in Bali barong, namely:

A. Barong ket (ketet) barong is the most widely found in Bali and the most often performed and has a vocabulary of dance movements that lengkap.Barong ketet a mix between a lion, tiger, cow, or bona.
Barong body is decorated with carving carving is made from leather, glass and feathers attached that are made from braksok, palm fiber or all of crow feathers.
In this barong carried by two (two) dancers called the interpreter or interpreters bapang saluk. This play is generally describes the battle between virtues and vices, where the theme is almost always the basis of the performing arts play in the play Bali.Gambelan to accompany the barong dance is a barreled gambelan bebarongan pelog. In some places there are also accompanied by gambelan pegulingan Semar.



B. Barong Bangkal means big pig that old age, it resembles a barong bangkal called boar or barong bangkung. Gambelan for accompaniment is gambelan batel, in his plays are rarely accompanied by a play and staging bangkal barong is usually by ngelawang (staging) of one place elsewhere) and there is also just mafajar or carried around.

C. Asu barong mask resembles a dog, especially, is very sacred and Dawa are at the top of the temple of Tabanan Baturiti

D. Barongs that resembles the elephant is an elephant, a very sacred and one of them being located in the Village Singapadu.

E. Barongs Macan it resembles a tiger, in his plays danced by two dancers and there is also equipped with a sort dramatari Arja, a dipai gambelan accompaniment is gambelan batel.

F. Landung barong, barong is different from the already mentioned diaatas. Barong Landung his form was not an animal but the legs of two early humans. In general, Landung barong was made in pairs, consisting of the queen Lanang (Barong Landung male) and Queen Luh (Barong Landung women). Barong is called so because of its large and high (like ondel-ondel Jakarta). Queen Lanang very scary face, black face with her teeth out while the Queen Luh jump the form of an old woman like chinese women.

In some places in Bali Barong Landung there is also equipped with other types of barong Landung like Mantri, Baluh, Limbur and others. In this Landung barong plays take the play as play Arja (especially in Badung Area) and accompanied by gambelan batel.



G. Barong Blasblasan, is also called the barong kedingkling, barong blasblasan is a form of staging that done ngelawang, dancers wear masks just masks wayang wong play footage with excerpts from the Ramayana which generally is the battle scene. Barong is performed on the day of many days Galungan and Kuningan and the dancers are children usually have a retinue child.Gambelan batel and some sort of bebarongan (Gambelan batel equipped with reyong).



Besides the types mentioned above barong, there are also the kinds of barong barong other brutuk Trunyan contained in (a small village east edge of Lake Batur). Barong is wearing fur that has been dried banana leaves (Kraras massacre) and very sacred by the community Trunyanese. Barong (a kind of barong Landung are numerous in the region of Tabanan is usually displayed at the ceremony Ngaben.