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Traditional Balinese dancing

This was a show I attended that was all traditional Balinese music and dancing. The ladies in the pink and blue played drums, reed flutes, and these metal marimba type things, but instead of mallets they used what looked like small ice picks. The music was eerie and the dancing was equally strange. Lots of eye movements and unusual finger movements. I say strange because in Western culture, I don't think the fingers are utilized a lot when dancing, but the Balinese seem to have embraced it.