There is no accompanying orchestra on this dance. Instead, a large group of men provide a continuous vocal background, something like a sound picture of an ocean in all its moods. They are dressed only in black and white check sarong, with red flower behind the right ear and a white one behind the left.

They move around on their haunches, sometimes swaying from this side to that, sometimes bouncing up and down, sometimes flinging themselves for head in a circle with arms outstretched toward the center. All the time they utter a non-verbal-chant, sometimes in unison, sometimes contrapuntally between sections of the group. The central performance area is lit only by a flaming lamp, but the gorgeously clad characters in the drama to which the group of men provide an accompaniment usually arrive on the scene through a temple gateway, dramatically lit from behind.

The story is of Rama’s trip to the forest with Shita to seek a golden deer. Rawana, king of the demons, kidnaps Shita, but Hanoman,the white monkey, come to her aid by telling Rama what’s happened. The son of the demon king fires an arrow (that turn into the snake) at Rama, but Rama calls on Garuda, the bird God, to save him. The king of the monkeys, Sugriwa, then arrives on the scene and the drama ends with a fight between the monkeys and the demon, with the kecak chorus dividing in support of the two sides. Rama is reunited with his beloved Shita.

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