{"id":5683,"date":"2026-10-16T06:48:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T06:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artsofbali.com\/?p=5683"},"modified":"2026-10-16T06:50:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T06:50:05","slug":"legong-dance-bali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsofbali.com\/fr\/legong-dance-bali\/","title":{"rendered":"Legong Dance: Bali&#8217;s Classical Dance, Story and Costume"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"aob-custom-article\">\n\n<div class=\"definition-box\"><p>Legong dance is a refined Balinese dance form known for intricate finger movements, complicated footwork, and expressive gestures and faces, danced to gamelan by two young dancers and a third called the condong. Wikipedia says it probably began in the 19th century as royal entertainment, while another source pushes the date earlier. This guide covers what legong is, the two origin stories, the Lasem plot, who dances it today, what to look at in the costume, and how a painter catches it on canvas.<\/p><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"highlight-inline\"><p><strong>Key Takeaways<\/strong><\/p><ul class=\"quality-list\">\n<li>The core cast is two dancers plus the condong, who, per Wikipedia, sets the scene, presents the dancers with their fans, and later plays the raven.<\/li>\n<li>The origin is disputed. Wikipedia says probably the 19th century, Indonesia Travel says the 17th or 18th. Two stories explain it: a Sukawati prince&#8217;s dream, and descent from sanghyang dedari.<\/li>\n<li>Traditionally the dancers were girls who had not reached puberty, training from about age five. Today dancers may be of all ages.<\/li>\n<li>Wikipedia files legong under balih-balihan, the category of dances made for entertainment.<\/li>\n<li>Our gallery lists The Elegant Legong Dancer Painting, a watercolor on cotton canvas, 60 \u00d7 80 cm, at Rp1,500,000.<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"img-block\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/artsofbali.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/legong-dance-keraton-lasem-agem-denpasar.webp\" alt=\"Two legong dance performers in gold costumes and flower headdresses holding fans in an agem pose\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" loading=\"eager\" title=\"- Arts of Bali\"><div class=\"img-meta\"><p class=\"caption\">Two dancers in a Legong Keraton Lasem performance at the Indonesian Institute of the Arts in Denpasar, July 2019. Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Agem_Keraton_Lasem.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kresnanta<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CC BY-SA 4.0<\/a>, via Wikimedia Commons.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n<span class=\"section-label\">The Basics<\/span>\n<h2 class=\"section-h2\">What Is Legong Dance? Fingers, Footwork and Faces<\/h2>\n\n<p>Search for legong dance Bali and most results are show listings and hotel pages. That is fine if you are booking, but we carry a legong painting in the gallery and wanted the dance itself on one page, with every source named.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Legong\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wikipedia&#8217;s Legong entry<\/a> calls it a refined dance form characterized by intricate finger movements, complicated footwork, and expressive gestures and facial expressions. The music is gamelan. The core cast is two young dancers plus a third, the condong. In <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Balinese_dance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wikipedia&#8217;s Balinese dance entry<\/a>, legong sits in balih-balihan, the entertainment category, next to wali for sacred dances and bebali for semi-sacred ones.<\/p>\n\n<p>If you have read our <a href=\"https:\/\/artsofbali.com\/fr\/baris-dance-bali\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Baris dance<\/a> guide or our <a href=\"https:\/\/artsofbali.com\/fr\/kecak-dance-bali\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">kecak dance<\/a> guide, legong is the opposite pole. Baris is a warrior in stance, kecak is a crowd of men chanting, and legong is two dancers, small gestures, and a lot of control.<\/p>\n\n<span class=\"section-label\">The History<\/span>\n<h2 class=\"section-h2\">Legong Dance History: A Prince&#8217;s Dream and Sanghyang Roots<\/h2>\n\n<p>Nobody agrees on the date, so here is what each source says. Wikipedia&#8217;s Legong entry says the dance probably originated in the 19th century as royal entertainment. It gives two explanations. In the legend, a prince of Sukawati fell ill and dreamed of two maidens dancing to gamelan music, and after he recovered he had such dances performed. In the alternative theory, legong descends from the sanghyang dedari ceremony, in which beneficent spirits voluntarily possess two young girls.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"table-wrap comparison-table\"><table>\n<thead><tr><th>Source<\/th><th>What it says about origin<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr><td>Wikipedia, Legong<\/td><td>Probably the 19th century, as royal entertainment. A Sukawati prince&#8217;s dream, or descent from sanghyang dedari.<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>Wikipedia, Balinese dance<\/td><td>Legong developed from Sanghyang Dedari and Gambuh.<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>Indonesia Travel<\/td><td>Believed to have originated in the 17th or 18th century, during Bali&#8217;s royal courts, inspired by a prince&#8217;s dream of celestial maidens.<\/td><\/tr>\n<\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\n<p class=\"table-note\">Sources: Wikipedia&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Legong\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Legong<\/a> et <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Balinese_dance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Balinese dance<\/a> entries, and the Indonesia Travel page on legong. They disagree on the date, and we do not pick one.<\/p>\n\n<p>The sanghyang connection matters because it links legong to a ritual, not just a palace. Sanghyang dedari, as Wikipedia&#8217;s Balinese dance entry describes it, is a sacred trance dance performed by two young girls in Karangasem to counteract negative supernatural forces. We cover the wider sanghyang roots in our kecak guide, since kecak grew from the same family of rituals.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"img-block\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/artsofbali.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/legong-dancers-group-portrait-1905-1915.webp\" alt=\"Historic group portrait of legong dancers in costume with a gamelan ensemble behind them in Bali\" width=\"700\" height=\"523\" title=\"- Arts of Bali\"><div class=\"img-meta\"><p class=\"caption\">A group portrait of legong dancers with a gamelan ensemble behind them, dated by the Tropenmuseum catalogue to between 1905 and 1915. Photographer unknown, studio O. Kurkdjian &amp; Co. Photo: Wereldmuseum Amsterdam (formerly Tropenmuseum), <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a>, via <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:COLLECTIE_TROPENMUSEUM_Groepsportret_van_legong-danseressen_Bali_TMnr_60019065.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a>.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n<span class=\"section-label\">The Story<\/span>\n<h2 class=\"section-h2\">The Legong Story: Lasem, Princess Rangkesari and the Raven<\/h2>\n\n<p>Classical legong enacts traditional stories. Wikipedia says the most common is based on the Malat, a collection of heroic romances. In that plot, a king of Lasem, in East Java, is at war with the father or brother of Princess Rangkesari. He wants to marry her, but she flees, is captured in the forest, and is imprisoned. He launches a final assault on her family and is attacked by a monstrous raven that foretells his death.<\/p>\n\n<p>Wikipedia adds that fifteen types of legong were traditionally performed and names eight of them: Bapang Sabab, Jebog, Kraton, Kuntir, Lasem, Raja Cina, Semarandana, and Sudasarna. They varied in length and movement style, and some could last an hour. Today most visitors see excerpts.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"cultural-cards\">\n<div class=\"cultural-card\"><h3>The two dancers<\/h3><p>The core of the piece. Wikipedia credits legong with intricate finger movements and complicated footwork, and the pair is where you see both.<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cultural-card\"><h3>The condong<\/h3><p>The third dancer. Wikipedia says she sets the scene, presents the dancers with their fans, and later plays the raven.<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cultural-card\"><h3>The music<\/h3><p>Gamelan, the Balinese percussion orchestra. Indonesia Travel describes it as including gongs, metallophones, and drums.<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cultural-card\"><h3>The stories<\/h3><p>Classical legong draws on tales such as the Malat romance of the king of Lasem, so the dance is theater as much as display.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<span class=\"section-label\">The Costume<\/span>\n<h2 class=\"section-h2\">What to Look At: Headdress, Cloth, Fan and Eyes<\/h2>\n\n<p>The costume is the part painters ask us about most, so it is worth slowing down. In the photographs on this page you can see the same set of features. A gilded headdress set with fresh flowers sits high above the brow. Layered cloth printed or worked in gold is wrapped tight at the chest and hips. A fan is held in the hand. Indonesia Travel summarizes it as silk sarongs, shimmering accessories, and ornate golden headdresses.<\/p>\n\n<p>Then there is the face. Wikipedia lists expressive gestures and facial expressions as defining features, and in a close photograph the eyes and hands do as much work as the feet. If you want to see how a painter handles the same costume in paint, our guide to <a href=\"https:\/\/artsofbali.com\/fr\/peinture-dune-danseuse-balinaise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Peinture repr\u00e9sentant une danseuse balinaise<\/a> covers the headdress, gold, and technique side.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"img-block portrait\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/artsofbali.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/legong-dance-costume-ubud-palace.webp\" alt=\"Legong dance performer in a gold crown and pink and green costume kneeling on stage at Ubud Palace\" width=\"960\" height=\"1479\" title=\"- Arts of Bali\"><div class=\"img-meta\"><p class=\"caption\">A dancer in a legong scene at Ubud Palace, March 2024. The Commons description says the performer sits alone and upset in the story. Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:A_traditional_Balinese_dancer.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SolomonAsghar<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CC BY-SA 4.0<\/a>, via Wikimedia Commons.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n<span class=\"section-label\">Who Dances It<\/span>\n<h2 class=\"section-h2\">Who Dances Legong, Then and Now<\/h2>\n\n<p>According to Wikipedia, the dancers were traditionally girls who had not reached puberty, starting rigorous training around age five. They were highly regarded and often became wives of royalty or wealthy merchants, usually stopping dancing after marriage. Today the article says dancers may be of all ages, and it reports performances by men in women&#8217;s costumes.<\/p>\n\n<p>That change in who dances is also a change in where a Balinese legong dance lives. Wikipedia says excerpts from legong dance dramas are performed for tourists, and legong is also danced at public festivals. Indonesia Travel lists Ubud Palace, Pura Dalem in Ubud, the annual Bali Arts Festival in Denpasar, and the cultural villages of Batubulan and Gianyar as places to see it.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"img-block\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/artsofbali.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/legong-dance-performance-ubud.webp\" alt=\"Young legong dance performer in a flower headdress and red costume in mid-movement in Ubud, Bali\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" title=\"- Arts of Bali\"><div class=\"img-meta\"><p class=\"caption\">A young legong performer in Ubud, June 2012. The background is desaturated in the file as uploaded. Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Bali_Legong_Dancer.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AjarnRichard<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CC BY-SA 4.0<\/a>, via Wikimedia Commons.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"table-wrap comparison-table\"><table>\n<thead><tr><th>Where<\/th><th>What Indonesia Travel says<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr><td>Ubud Palace (Puri Saren Agung)<\/td><td>Nightly performances.<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>Pura Dalem Temple, Ubud<\/td><td>Performances take place in the courtyard.<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>Bali Arts Festival<\/td><td>Held annually in Denpasar.<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>Batubulan and Gianyar<\/td><td>Cultural villages where performances take place.<\/td><\/tr>\n<\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\n<p class=\"table-note\">Source: the Indonesia Travel page on legong dance. Schedules and prices change, so confirm with the venue or your hotel. We are a gallery with no ticket desk.<\/p>\n\n<span class=\"section-label\">From Our Side<\/span>\n<h2 class=\"section-h2\">What We Know and What We Defer On<\/h2>\n\n<p>We are a gallery, not a dance school. What we write here comes from the sources named in this post and from the pieces in our own collection. On points of dance technique and ritual, we defer to the teachers and performers who carry legong. If you spot something we should correct, tell us and we will fix it.<\/p>\n\n<span class=\"section-label\">In the Gallery<\/span>\n<h2 class=\"section-h2\">The Elegant Legong Dancer Painting<\/h2>\n\n<p>The Elegant Legong Dancer Painting is listed as an original watercolor on cotton canvas, 60 \u00d7 80 cm, in an impressionistic watercolor style, priced at Rp1,500,000. The listing describes a dancer in full ceremonial attire holding a fan, with soft sweeping washes of warm earthy tones in the background. It does not name the painter, so we do not either.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"img-block portrait\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/artsofbali.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/legong-1_9_11zon.webp\" alt=\"Legong dance painting: The Elegant Legong Dancer, original impressionistic watercolor, 60 x 80 cm\" width=\"880\" height=\"1173\" title=\"- Arts of Bali\"><div class=\"img-meta\"><p class=\"caption\">The Elegant Legong Dancer Painting, original watercolor on cotton canvas, 60 \u00d7 80 cm, at Arts of Bali.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"table-wrap comparison-table\"><table>\n<thead><tr><th>Detail in the painting<\/th><th>What it refers to<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr><td>Fan held up in one hand<\/td><td>Fans are part of the dance. Wikipedia says the condong presents the dancers with theirs<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>Tiered gilded headdress with red flowers<\/td><td>The gold headdress seen in the photographs above<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>Sweeping brown and grey washes behind the dancer<\/td><td>The painter&#8217;s choice of background<\/td><\/tr>\n<\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\n<p class=\"table-note\">Details are from the product listing and our own photographs, checked on 14 October 2026. Price and availability can change.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"cta-block\"><h3>Ask About the Legong Painting<\/h3><p>Tell us the wall you have in mind and we will send close-up photos, the exact size, and shipping options for The Elegant Legong Dancer Painting. We ship worldwide.<\/p><a href=\"https:\/\/wa.me\/6285237454011\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"cta-btn\">Discuter sur WhatsApp<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/artsofbali.com\/fr\/galerie\/the-elegant-legong-dancer-painting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"cta-btn outline\">View the Legong Dancer Painting<\/a><\/div>\n\n<span class=\"section-label\">Questions<\/span>\n<h2 class=\"section-h2\">Legong Dance FAQ<\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"faq-section\">\n<details class=\"faq-item\"><summary class=\"faq-q\">What is legong dance?<\/summary><div class=\"faq-a\">Legong is a refined Balinese dance form characterized by intricate finger movements, complicated footwork, and expressive gestures and facial expressions, according to Wikipedia. It is danced to gamelan by two young dancers and a third called the condong. Wikipedia&#8217;s Balinese dance entry files it under balih-balihan, the category of dances made for entertainment.<\/div><\/details>\n<details class=\"faq-item\"><summary class=\"faq-q\">Where does legong dance come from?<\/summary><div class=\"faq-a\">Sources disagree on the date. Wikipedia says it probably originated in the 19th century as royal entertainment, while Indonesia Travel says the 17th or 18th. Two stories explain it: a Sukawati prince dreamed of two dancing maidens, or legong descends from the sanghyang dedari trance ceremony.<\/div><\/details>\n<details class=\"faq-item\"><summary class=\"faq-q\">How many dancers perform legong?<\/summary><div class=\"faq-a\">The core cast is two young dancers plus a third, the condong, according to Wikipedia. The condong sets the scene, presents the dancers with their fans, and later plays the raven in the best-known story. Together the three carry the scene, from the first entrance to the raven&#8217;s attack in the Lasem plot.<\/div><\/details>\n<details class=\"faq-item\"><summary class=\"faq-q\">What story does legong dance tell?<\/summary><div class=\"faq-a\">Classical legong enacts several traditional stories. Wikipedia says the most common is based on the Malat, a collection of heroic romances: a king of Lasem wants to marry Princess Rangkesari, she flees and is imprisoned, and a monstrous raven foretells the king&#8217;s death. Fifteen types were traditionally performed.<\/div><\/details>\n<details class=\"faq-item\"><summary class=\"faq-q\">Who dances legong?<\/summary><div class=\"faq-a\">Traditionally girls who had not reached puberty, who began rigorous training around age five, and who usually stopped dancing after marriage, according to Wikipedia. Today the article says dancers may be of all ages, and it reports performances by men in women&#8217;s costumes. Legong is danced at public festivals and in excerpts for tourists.<\/div><\/details>\n<details class=\"faq-item\"><summary class=\"faq-q\">What is the difference between legong and kecak?<\/summary><div class=\"faq-a\">Legong is a court-origin dance for two dancers and a condong, performed to gamelan, with precise finger and facial gestures. Kecak is a dance-drama popularized in the 1930s in which a circle of men chants &#8220;chak&#8221; around a lamp, acting out the Ramayana. Wikipedia describes kecak as performed without instruments.<\/div><\/details>\n<details class=\"faq-item\"><summary class=\"faq-q\">Where can you watch legong dance in Bali?<\/summary><div class=\"faq-a\">Indonesia Travel lists Ubud Palace with nightly performances, Pura Dalem Temple in Ubud, the annual Bali Arts Festival in Denpasar, and the cultural villages of Batubulan and Gianyar. Wikipedia adds that excerpts are performed for tourists and at public festivals. Confirm schedules and tickets with the venue before you go.<\/div><\/details>\n<details class=\"faq-item\"><summary class=\"faq-q\">Does Arts of Bali sell a legong dance painting?<\/summary><div class=\"faq-a\">Yes. The Elegant Legong Dancer Painting is an original watercolor on cotton canvas, 60 \u00d7 80 cm, painted in an impressionistic watercolor style and priced at Rp1,500,000. It shows a dancer in full ceremonial attire holding a fan. The listing does not name the painter. 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