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Just west of the bridge
over Champuan river before the home of artist Antonio Blanco there is a
turn to the left. The road ascent, and a few meters after the end of it,
from a bungalows nearby radiated a sound of gamelan, a traditional Balinese
music.
Inside a hall, Yoshie
Kobayashi a Japanese and Kim Tran a Vietnam born New Yorker, practising
Balinese dance helped by a little boy from Colorado, Mischa Samson. |
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They learned kebyar
style of dance created in north Bali in the beginning of this century.
Guided by the drummer
and sound of kebyar music from a cd player operated by Mischa, they practised
a few hours that morning.
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Although their movement
is not yet reached that of Balinese dancers that trained since childhood
and heard the sound of gamelan since in the womb, their movements was indicating
the good skill and understanding of this one type of Balinese arts.
Their movements, the
sound of gamelan, spacious surrounding in that clear morning, contributed
to an artistic calmness of the morning in Ubud.
The boy who came to
Bali with his father said that he and his father would be back to the US
in a few days for his mom birthday. He insisted to his father to come back
to Ubud next time, "to this place" he said. |
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