FILMAKERS LIBRARY
Anthropology
Dance and Trance of Balinese Children
Produced by Madeleine Richeport-Haley and Jay Haley
Combining
footage taken by Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson over fifty years ago with
footage shot today, this delightful video shows how the tradition of teaching
Balinese children to dance is still being passed on from generation to generation.
Today one can still see the training of children through repetition, imitation
and forceful manipulation into the correct positions. The viewer sees that the
children may go into trance during ceremonial dances, and learns that, to the
Balinese, children are sacred.
The video shows that even when Balinese live in the United States, the children
are taught to dance. We see a master dancer and composer whose son must chose
between becoming a master dancer like his father, or playing on the high school
football team. It also shows how children teach dance and pass on their traditions
to other children. They combine their Balinese heritage and their experiences
living in the United States to create a new, multicultural dance.
43 min. Video or DVD. Sale $195. Video rental $65.
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