Putu is a second grade student of elementary school. Her friends of friends from Australia came to Bali and held the wedding here.
Legong Dance on Wedding at Tirta Gangga
As a present for the wedding Putu gave a special present – Balinese dance performance. She had tried her best to learn this dance. In a month, few times a week she visited Putu Sutarini ( m (mayumi)’s dance teacher) learned the Condong of Legong Lasem dance.
This wedding was held in Tirta Gangga, Karangasem, a water park owned by the Royal family of Karangasem Kingdom. Putu’s dance performance was accompanied by a small group of gamelan Semara Pegulingan.
m ‘s students from Sanggar Tunas Maragawi “Dila” and “Bila” were also joining the performance. They danced as Lasem and Rangkesari.
Legong Dance on Wedding at Tirta Gangga
Tirta Gangga was located in Karangasem regency, quite far from Ubud. It took more than two hours to get this place. One of the dancer had a travel sickness, but she danced good and very energetic. How wonderful, all audiences / invitations gave their appreciation to this performance.
There was a request from Putu’s father, that the flowers of the Legong headdresses (the gelungan) should with original frangipani flowers.
Sometimes its difficult to find, but we were lucky that it was frangipani season. For one gelungan needed about 90 flowers. We got these flowers from our home garden, neighbor, and from the market.
The gelungan Legong on Wedding at Tirta Gangga
Cheers for a wonderful performance and Happy Wedding!
