BALI'S KECAK DANCE

BALI'S KECAK DANCE

Kecak (pronounced: /'ke.tʃak/, roughly "KEH-chahk", alternate spellings: Ketjak and Ketjack), a form of Balinese music drama, originated in the 1930s and is performed primarily by men. Also known as the Ramayana Monkey Chant, the piece, performed by a circle of 100 or more performers wearing checked cloth around their waists, percussively chanting "cak" and throwing up their arms, depicts a battle from the Ramayana where the monkey-like Vanara helped Prince Rama fight the evil King Ravana. However, Kecak has roots in sanghyang, a trance-inducing exorcism dance.[1]Kecak was originally a trance ritual accompanied by male chorus. German painter and musician Walter Spies became deeply interested in the ritual while living in Bali in the 1930s and worked to recreate it into a drama, based on the Hindu Ramayana and including dance, intended to be presented to Western tourist audiences. This transformation is an example of what James Clifford describes as part of the "modern art-culture system"[2] in which, "the West or the central power adopts, transforms, and consumes non-Western or peripheral cultural elements, while making 'art' which was once embedded in the culture as a while, into a separate entity."[3] Spies worked with Wayan Limbak and Limbak popularized the dance by traveling throughout the world with Balinese performance groups. These travels have helped to make the Kecak famous throughout the world.

TASK 3: www lesson plan

LEVEL: Form 1 (Advance)
TIME: 1 hour
THEME: Process and procedures.
TOPIC: How to prepare it?

AIMS: To find specific information on a Website, to identify the usage of sequence
connectors and to practice e-mailing skill.

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS:
One computer per group of 2-3 students, with an Internet connection, a Web Browser and email. Each group needs an email address.

WEBSITE:
http://www.momswhothink.com/easy-recipes/macaroni-and-cheese- recipe.html


PREPARATION:
1. Prepare material on the topic.
2. Locate sites related to the topic.
3. Using the information on the site, prepare a worksheet.
4. Send the material and worksheet to the students’ email.

PROCEDURES:
1. Teacher asks students to open their email and show them how to look at what they
have received.

2. Teacher asks students to look at the first attachment and arrange the jumbled-up
methods on making a dessert called “Icy Dreams”.

3. Teacher asks on how students know the sequence, introduces the topic, asks more
examples of sequence connectors and jots the responses on the whiteboard.

4. Teacher sends the students to the website chosen and asks them to read the content
first.

5. Teacher asks students to open a worksheet (which in the second attachment in their
email) and asks them to complete the worksheet based on the website’s content.

6. Teacher asks students to send their completed worksheet to teacher’s email.