KECAK Ritual
The modern performance of Kecak is one of the best-known, sensational dances of Bali. Most unusual because there is no gamelan accompaniment and, only a lot of bare-chested men sitting in a circle around a flickering single oil lamp. A chanting choir of these bare-chested men provide the sound "chak-a-chak-cak-cak" (pronounced "tjak"), like produced by monkeys.It's told the Kecak evolved from the male chorus of the ritual Sanghyang Dedari Trance Ceremony. It includes a drama-tale, in which the circle (so-named mandala-dance) of light changes into an alive theatre, dramatized by the noise of the chak that distinguished the dance. Best Kecaks (Monkey-dance) you can watch with special events near Tanah Lot, Uluwatu and other temples areas.It was in the 30's that the modern Kecak was performed at wish of the German artist Walter Spies. Only some later the epics of Ramayana created space for...
