DANCING with the sun

STREET DANCER
At 14.30 pm, outside Yogyakarta City the atmosphere of the street was still in heat, they gathered in a T- junction of a traffic light, tens of machines of motor vehicles await to race against the heat of town of Yogyakarta at that time, and when from west direction the vehicles stoped for a moment because of red light , immediately a group of traditional dancer using colourful traditional clothes went down to the street accompanied by the gamelan player ( gamelan : tradisional music instrument like ;percussion, and pentatonic castanets made of metal ) , danced in front of vehicle on a crossroad line with a whipe on hand. In a few second later two people among others immediately circularized a spoon box to each riders and asked money from them.

HARD FIGHT
I didn’t realized that they worked from morning to evening, daybreak till dawn. I thought they were so creative not just like any other street musician or more extreme some people said that they were a beggar, no I thought. They showed creativity by using traditional clothes, music and also good made up. They presented marvelous style.

(Article created by F.AGUNG NUGROHO on Sunday, June 7th,2009)

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