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Kadek Dewi Aryani - Balinese Dance "I always wished to pride my family, to honor the village... and to please our gods through my dancing. As a dancer and dancer instructor, I am able to pass on our traditional beliefs and moral values to a new generation in the most wonderful way I can imagine..." Balinese dance, traditional and contemporary, is very complex. Every dancer plays a specific character in a story - portraying and expressing this character with energy throughout the whole body, and defining this character with hand gestures and the appropriate eye movements.	Dewi - in Truna Jaya costume
Many of the dances are very spiritual and sacred - dance plays an important role in the Hindu belief. Hindu is the predominant religion, and actively practiced by most Balinese. In the Hindu religion, a dancer is believed to be the right hand of Siva, the manifestation of God, the Almighty. As a dancing god, Siva keeps moving and these movements bring rhythm and regularity to the cosmos.	Dewi - on location (Batur) for music video
Presenting human emotions silently - only through movements and facial expressions - showing fear, anger, or sadness with your body, hands, feet, and eyes... is extremely difficult. At the end of the long learning process, finally being able to combine the strictly technical part with your own personal style - to make it both formally correct, but stylistically unique as well... that is when you know: ...the dance has become a part of you. MORE ABOUT: DEWI | DANCE | TEACHING | FAMILY | TRADITION	Dewi - in Oleg Tamulilingan costume