Legong DanceLegong dance is one of Wali dance which function to performance entertainment, historically this dance is develop in Keraton-keraton in Bali at 19 century the idea of this dance is starting when a prince from Sukawati ubud (gianyar regency) that had the illness hard dream and see two beautiful girls dancing with the graceful accompanied by the beautiful Gambelan. When the prince recovered from the illness, the dreams that he had are set in the repertory dance complete with the gamelan. The legong dance basically is a dance which has complicate structure in body, eyes movement. Legong came from the word leg which means the complicate movement from body, foot, hand and eyes. And gong means gambelan so legong is a dance in complicate movement body from the dancer which followed with the instrumental Gambelan which calls Gambelan Semar Pegulingan. At the beginning this dance are dancing with two girl which is had not menstruation yet, virgin and dancing in the yard of Keraton down in the moon light and bring out Kipas (fan) and in the development it had a additional dance which call condong the other structure of this dance are papeson, pangawak, pengecet, dan pakaad.Kinds of Legong DanceThere are many kind of legong dance which these dance take some theme which presented in dance here some kind of legong dance: Legong Lasem (Kraton) Legong Jobog Legong Legod Bawa Legong Kuntul Legong Smaradahana Legong Sudarsana

Philosophy of Legong DanceEach of those dance are has the own characteristic like legong lasem it tell about the stories from prabu lasem which kidnap the princess from Daha, legong jobog it tell about the stories from Sugriwa and Subali from Ramayana epos, Legong legod bawa it tell about the stories from competition Dewa Dewa Brahma and Vishnu when searching for the secret commemorative Dewa Syiwa, Legong Kuntul narrate a pair of heron, which occupied sociality, and Legong Sudarsana tok the stories about Calonarang.The most common is the tale of the King of Lasem from the Malat, a collection of heroic romances. He is at war with another king, the father (or brother) of Princess Ranjasari. Lasem wants to marry the girl, but she detests him and tries to run away. Becoming lost in the forest, she is captured by Lasem, who imprisons her and goes out for a final assault against her family. He is attacked by a monstrous raven, which foretells his death.The dramatics are enacted in elaborate and stylized pantomime. The two little actresses are accompanied by a third dancer called a tjondong or attendant. She sets the scene, presents the dancers with their fans and later plays the part of the raven.