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Kuda Lumping or Kuda Kepang is a folk ritual performed on auspicious occasions
in Central and East Java. The dancers ride the decorated rattan horses
to the music of gongs, drums and flutes. One or several of the dancers
go into a trance, becoming a horse, and feverishly eats fire, glass, coconuts,
or hay. At this point it can become dangerous and requires the help of
a dukun, village mystic teacher, to break the trance with holy water, incense
or incantations. Calm returns to the world with the musicians ending the ritual.
While this is a old village ritual today, it has been adapted as a dance performance
by traveling troupes. The
photographs of this dance were taken by Sheila Huth in 1992 at Dieng Plateau,
Central Java, Indonesia |
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Lumping Trance Dance Horses For Sale
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