Music & Dance

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Bali's most famous and crowded resort is Kuta beach, a six-kilometre sweep of golden sand, with plenty of accommodation, shops and nightlife. Nearby Sanur is much quieter, but most backpackers prefer the beaches of peaceful east-coast Candi Dasa and traveller-oriented Lovina on the north coast. The island's other major destination is the cultural centre of Ubud , a still charming but undeniably commercialized overgrown village, where traditional dances are staged every night of the week and the streets are full of arts-and-crafts galleries.

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Sumatra's heavier Islamic influence is reflected in their musical instruments: a primitive type of oboe, serunai, is almost identical to the Persian original, the surnai. A type of drum, rebana (like a tamborine) found here is also popular in other Islamic areas of the world. Each region of Sumatra has its own choreography and dance forms, performing primarily dances of the feet. Sumatran dancers are known for their gays (grace), very smooth, soft, willowy movements. Candledances (tari li/in or tari piring) are danced all over the island. Girls with tassled caps carry lighted candles affixed to saucers. As the dancer dips and rises, their open palms describe in space semi-circles and figure eights. Music is accented by the clicks of rings against the bottom edge of the plates which are turned over and under very quickly, though the flame never quite goes out. When tari /i/in is over, the girl blows the candle out and silently leaves. In the Handkerchief Dance, men and women hold one end of a large white square of cloth. They do a kind of maypole dance, winding in and out and turning around, tying the handkerchiefs in a series of knots. At the conclusion, they can untangle it immediately and faultlessly. Sometimes they let it drop on the floor and pick it up with their teeth. They say there's a different dance for every one of Sumatra's 100 districts and as many dancers as it has single girls. When a woman dances at her wedding ceremony it's for the last time.