Trance and Dance in Bali (1952)

Directors

Gregory Bateson, Margaret Mead

The story

thumb|upright=1.35|The women dance ecstatically, stabbing themselves with their razor-sharp kris daggers, and coming to no harm.|alt=Film still showing women dancers bending and writhing The film describes and illustrates a single performance of the Kris Dance, a ritual dance on the Indonesian island of Bali. The dance portrays the struggle of good, in the shape of dragons, against evil, in the shape of masked Tjalonarang witches. The dancers are young women.

Genres

Film metadata comes from the open sources listed in Credits & Contact. Catalogue details may be incomplete.

Your lists

Loading your lists…