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This is performance art and is not accompanied by musical instruments or gamelan. However, it was only accompanied by a choir of around 70 male dancers lined up in circles using checkered cloth.

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But Kecak Dance comes from sanghyang ritual, which is a dance tradition in which dancers will be in a subconscious state, and communicate with God or their ancestral spirits and then convey their hopes to the community.

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According to historical sources, the Kecak Dance was created in 1930 by Balinese artists named Wayan Limbak and Walter Spies, a painter from Germany. This dance is inspired by sanghyang rituals and part of the story of the Ramayana legend.

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