Classified Pendet oldest dances in Bali

Pendet or welcome dance is one of the oldest dances in the dance that is similar in the island resort. 

"According to some accounts, the Balinese performing arts experts agreed to name the year 1950 as year of birth Pendet dance," said Professor Institut Seni Indonesia (ISI) Denpasar professor Dr. I Wayan Dibia in Denpasar, on Saturday. 

He said since the creation of the dance is always used as the opening act for another dance performance presentation, whether to treat the important guests who come to Bali and are shown to foreign countries. 

"Pendet is a dance group that is usually danced by a group of young women in which each dancer brought a silver bowl (bowl) that contains colorful flowers," he added. 

At the end of the dance, the dancers throw their flowers that they bring to the audience, as a form of expression and welcome. 

About the initiators of the dance by artists Dibia was born two villages namely Denpasar Sumertha I Wayan Rindi and Ni Ketut Reneng. 

"Both these artists create a welcoming Pendet dance with four dancers to be presented as part of the show turistik in a number of hotels in Denpasar, Bali," he added. 

In 1961, I Wayan Beratha Pendet reworked dance becomes a pattern like now, including adding the number of dancers to five people. 

Then in 1962, I Wayan Beratha and his colleagues created the mass Pendet dance, with the number of dancers no less than 800 people, to appear in the Asian Games opening ceremony in Jakarta.