Two girls performing welcome dance engage each other in mirror image pose
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 15)
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Two girls performing a welcome dance engage each other in a mirror image pose.
The dancers wear flowered headdresses and green and gold silk costumes. With bent knees and straight backs the dancers lean towards each other and touch arms and shoulders while turning their heads in opposite directions.
In Balinese dances, all movements are carefully choreographed, even the quickly shifting eye movements.
