
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.
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