Rejang

An indigenous, sacred temple dance presented as an offering to the deities who have momentarily visited a shrine, the rejang is performed by women ages two to 85 to propitiate ancestral spirits. The steps and gestures are absurdly simple, probably Polynesian in origin. The dancers move slowly and deliberately to the Padmasana, holding their hip sashes and twirling their fans. Occasionally a pedanda or a pemangku leads.