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The Continuous Transformation of Balinese Dance: I Made Sidia’s Colossal Show
In Bali, dance and theatre are, at their core, acts of devotion. Central is the veneration of ancestral and divine spirits, ritually invited to inhabit a wide array of temples: kinship-based, territorial, royal, and more. Each temple marks its anniversary either every 210 days, following the Balinese pawukon calendar, or every Saka lunar year, especially
