DP Theatre - Research Presentation (first assessment 2024): Kecak, Indonesia

Topic overview. Discussion of the various dance forms of Bali, including Jeroan dances, one of which is the kecak - a modern offshoot of sanghyang developed in the 1930s, which uses the chanting of traditional sanghyang as an accompaniment to theatrical dance using stories from the Ramayana epic. Includes list of sources for further reading. Author: Tim Byard-Jones. Encyclopedia of Modern Asia, edited by Karen Christensen and David Levinson, vol. 2, Charles Scribner's Sons, 2002, pp. 234-235. Gale eBooks.

An overview of Indonesian culture during the 20th century including Kecak. This page is part of Asian Traditional Theatre and Dance, ISBN 978-952-7218-23-5, © 2018, a dissertation published by the Theatre Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki.

A history of the kecak dance, accompanied by photographs. Presented by the Indonesia Culture blog.

Link to MP3 sound file of Ketjak: The Ramayana Monkey Chant, 20:11. "Performed by more than 200 men seated in tight concentric circles around a small central space reserved for the chief protagonists," the ketjak (loosely called "Monkey Chant") was first recorded in Bali by David Lewiston and released by Nonesuch Records in 1969. As a spectacular and alternative performance mode, it has had a germinal influence on Western performance and poetics since then. Presented by Ubuweb Ethnopoetics.