HYPERTEXT

BALI'S KECAK DANCE

Kecak (pronounced: /'ke.tʃak/, roughly "KEH-chahk", alternate spellings: Ketjak and Ketjack), a form of Balinese music drama, originated in the 1930s and is performed primarily by men. Also known as the Ramayana Monkey Chant, the piece, performed by a circle of 100 or more performers wearing checked cloth around their waists, percussively chanting "cak" and throwing up their arms, depicts a battle from the Ramayana where the monkey-like Vanara helped Prince Rama fight the evil King Ravana. However, Kecak has roots in sanghyang, a trance-inducing exorcism dance.[1]

Kecak was originally a trance ritual accompanied by male chorus. German painter and musician Walter Spies became deeply interested in the ritual while living in Bali in the 1930s and worked to recreate it into a drama, based on the Hindu Ramayana and including dance, intended to be presented to Western tourist audiences. This transformation is an example of what James Clifford describes as part of the "modern art-culture system"[2] in which, "the West or the central power adopts, transforms, and consumes non-Western or peripheral cultural elements, while making 'art' which was once embedded in the culture as a while, into a separate entity."[3] Spies worked with Wayan Limbak and Limbak popularized the dance by traveling throughout the world with Balinese performance groups. These travels have helped to make the Kecak famous throughout the world.

TASK 3: WWW LESSON PLAN

THE EXTINCTION OF TIGER

LEVEL: 4

TIME: 45 minutes

AIMS: To find specific information from the article from the Website and to practice writing.

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS:
One computer per group of 2 students with an internet connection and a Web browser.
Website: www.thefreelibrary.com; Article: “Tiger’s Last Stand: Could a radical plan save the world’s wild tigers from extinction? The debate roars on.”

PREPARATION:
1. Locate the sites and search for article title “Tiger’s Last Stand: Could a radical plan save the world’s wild tigers from extinction? The debate roars on.”
2. Using the information from the article; prepare a worksheet.

PROCEDURES:

1. Teacher shows students picture of tiger. Ask the students what they know about the causes of the extinction of tigers.
2. Send the students to the sites chosen. Ask them to type in the title of the article “Tiger’s Last Stand: Could a radical plan save the world’s wild tigers from extinction? The debate roars on.”
3. Ask the students to read the article. While they are reading the article, they are given the worksheet prepared and ask them to complete the worksheet.
4. When all the students have finished, discussed their answers. Discuss any unusual facts they learned.
5. Write examples of topic sentence (which had been learned on previous lesson) using the information from the worksheet. Ask them to write their own topic sentence using the information from the worksheet.

FOLLOW-UP:

1. Tell the students to prepare an essay using the information from the worksheet.