Sanghyang Dedari Dance

the holy virgins, two underage girls are placed in a trance to dance between female and male choirs accompanied by a complete gamelan group carried on palanquins or shoulders around village and stopping at magically charged spots crossroads, bridges, and in front of homes of people who can Tran transform themselves into leak or witches Sanghyangs lead the villagers back to a dancing arena at the temple or bale banjar where with eyes closed, they dance for up to four hours execute the entire dance on the shoulders of men performing astounding acrobatic feats Sang means holiness, and dedari means angels a divine spirit descends to a villager in the form of dance performed to maintain health, and well being of the village drives out evil spirits, stops sickness, death in community stories based on the Calonarang and the Cupak sway freely in a dream vision movements are supposed to coincide with their eyes closed the chanting stops, the girls start hopping around brought out of the trance by the pemangku who pray beside them and bless them with holy water