Ngayah: A Balinese Dance’s Flow

Abstract

Bali is the most of the art and culture island in the archipelago, where art, culture and religion are living side by side. Balinese dancing is performed in order toa ritual or an art performance for tourism. This paper interviewed two maestro01 the Balinese dancers and showed that when the Balinese dancers perform actually they already do breath work. They feel enjoy, spirit of ngayah (feel sincere in Balinese culture), as a service religion to God. They feel challengetobe the winner in competition of dance and they feel happy when they won, that'sI' Psychology we use term flow. Ngayah, as a sincere working, is a fundamental state of the Balinese dancer's flow involving present moment and unity to t/io universe. As consequence, the dancer will get an inner taksu (charisma).