Scissors, Rock and Paper

The game of scissors, rock and paper is a popular around the world. Clenching your hand in a firt means rock, an poen hand means paper and 2 fingers means scissors. When 2 people play this game, each will show their hand in one of these three forms, one of which will win over the other. Rock wins againts scissors,which wins againts paper, which beats rock.

In Bali tnis game is also popular. But in the past there was smiliar game of monkey, ant and elephant known as “Sut”. Instead of using our whole hand, we just used our fingers. The forefinger is for monkey, the thumb for elephant and the little finger for ant. When 2 people are playing, they each stick out one of these fingers ; monkey (forefinger) wins againts ant (little finger) because it can easily kill ant with its finger, an elephant beats a monkey by stepping on it, and an ant can easily go inside an elephant’s ear and cause such havoc that the elephant can’t bare the pain and collapses.

Dramatari Arja

Art performances in Bali are a media that can deliver messages and information to the community. This we can see from the sort of performance that entertains us, especially performances that has a dramatic story. The information and messages can be delivered to the audience in the dialogs between the dancers, along with the messages of the story. One of the famous drama dances in Bali is the Arja Drama dance (Dramatari Arja).

The Arja is a drama dance where the dialogs are sung. The word arja is though to come from the world “Reja’ (comes from the Sanskrit Languange), which means beautiful ar contains beautiful ness, is reckoned to apper in 1825. the source of the main story of the Arja drama dance come from panji, folktales, Mahabhrata, Ramayana and group of other stories that are well known ro the community. The Arja always brings you the characters of ; Inya, Galuh, Desak Rai, Limbur, Liku, Penasar, Mantri Manis, Mantri Buduh, and the two royal servants Punta and Kartala. In the Arja drama dance, the Gamelan orchestra that is normally used is the Geguntangan, which has sweet and gentle sound to increase the beauty ness of the songs that are sang by the dancers.

Ciwa Nataraja

In hindu myhtology, Siwa Nataraja is a form of the God Siwa, who is known as the king of dance. As the highest dancer. Siwa dances continuously to maintain rhythm and balance in the cosmos. The movements in this dancing are so powerful that it creates and combines this world realm.

The form of Siwa Nataraja has been transformed into a dance by N.LN Swasthi Widjaja Bandem. It is danced by nine female dancers, one of whom portrays Siwa Nataraja while the other eight represent the eight magical powers of Siwa. Incoporating elements, it is now an important dance of indonesia Arts School (STSI) Denpasar.