Entering the hectic backstage area of Taman Ismail Marzuki’s playhouse in Jakarta, I was immediately greeted by the big motherly smile of Ayu Bulantrisna Djelantik. Bulanstrina is direct descendant of ...
The dance drama performed by frangipani-crowned girls is an emblem of this tiny Southeast Asian island province Legong is a “balih-balihan”, or secular, Balinese dance form meant “purely for ...