Four Balinese girls performing a welcome dance in gold costumes
About this photograph
- Creator
- Margery H. Freeman
- Date created
- 1986
- Location
- Peliatan, Bali, Indonesia
- License
- This photograph copyright ©2007. Terms of use
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- Traditional performing arts in Bali: Photographs and text illustrate traditional performance in Bali, including music, theater, and dance. (Page 12)
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Four Balinese girls performing a welcome dance in gold costumes hold their right arms raised. In their left hands they hold decorated offering bowls whose flowery contents they toss as a kind of cheerful blessing to the audience and forthcoming events.
The girls all wear golden crown headdresses, tight gold and yellow sleeveless bodices, and gold-threaded wrapped skirts striped with pale green and pink stripes. As with all Indonesian dances, they dance barefoot using carefully controlled leg, arm, and facial movements.
