Ngusabha Kasa Festival

 

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  • Address:

    Asak Village, Karangasem Regency, Bali

Held just outside of Candi Dasa in the indigenous Bali Aga village of Asak in Karangasem Regency, this ritual ceremony features a very traditional dance form called the Pendet Rejang. This ancient dance with its own function, role, attributes and elaborate costumes, is performed around June/July each year and takes place in the Great Hall of the village. The dancers are adorned with ornamental crown-like headdresses decorated with artificial gold foil flowers called sasak flowers and they wear wraps made from traditional weaves (saput kain karah) on their tops. The offering dance Pendet Rejand is performed to kebyar gong gamelan and along with other dances such as the Abuang Taruna and Abuang Krama. It starts at the southern end of the village and moves north in a circular fashion. Once the circuit is completed the dancers present special offerings to a group of young women called Jro Krama Saing who lay await in the main hall and the ceremony concludes with the commencement of the main ceremony once all the prani offerings have been arranged in the temple.