Kechak Dance - Hypertext practise

BALI'S KECAK DANCE


Kecak (pronounced: /'ke.tʃak/, roughly "KEH-chahk", alternate spellings: Ketjak and Ketjack), a form of Balinese music drama, originated in the 1930s and is performed primarily by men. Also known as the Ramayana Monkey Chant, the piece, performed by a circle of 100 or more performers wearing checked cloth around their waists, percussively chanting "cak" and throwing up their arms, depicts a battle from the Ramayana where the monkey-like Vanara helped Prince Rama fight the evil King Ravana. However, Kecak has roots in sanghyang, a trance-inducing exorcism dance.[1]

Kecak was originally a trance ritual accompanied by male chorus. German painter and musician Walter Spies became deeply interested in the ritual while living in Bali in the 1930s and worked to recreate it into a drama, based on the Hindu Ramayana and including dance, intended to be presented to Western tourist audiences. This transformation is an example of what James Clifford describes as part of the "modern art-culture system"[2] in which, "the West or the central power adopts, transforms, and consumes non-Western or peripheral cultural elements, while making 'art' which was once embedded in the culture as a while, into a separate entity."[3] Spies worked with Wayan Limbak and Limbak popularized the dance by traveling throughout the world with Balinese performance groups. These travels have helped to make the Kecak famous throughout the world.

Lesson Plan

Location: Rural Date: 14th of March 2009
Form/Level: 3 Arif (Intermediate) Time: 2.00-3.20 p.m.
Subject: English (Reading and Writing)
Topic: Natural Disaster
Theme: Environment
Aims
General Objective: Have a positive outlook and act appropriately in social situations
Learning Outcomes: At the end of the lesson, students should be able to;
- Fill in the mind-map with appropriate content from their findings on the website.
- Write an e-mail to a friend using contents gathered in the mind-map.
Skills: Reading and Writing
Language Content: Regular Nouns, Adjective, Basic vocabulary.

Educational Emphases:
• Visual Spatial
• Language
Technical Requirements
- One Computer per person with Internet connection
Other requirements
- Worksheet (mind-map)
Previous Knowledge
- Nouns
- Adjectives

TEACHING PROCEDURE

Pre – lesson (preparation):

1. Students have to log on to: http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/natural-disasters/
2. Teacher instructs students to watch the videos of natural disasters on the site.
3. Teacher asks students questions regarding the video e.g.;
-What happened and where have it happened?
-Where else have the events happened?
-What might be the cause of the events seen?

While-lesson

Actv 1
4. Teacher asks students to choose one of the natural disasters topic available on the site.
5. Students have to read about it and watch the videos provided about it in the site to better understand the natural disaster chosen.
6. In pairs, students have to complete task one based on their reading on the natural disaster chosen. (Fill in a mind-map with the causes, impact and safety tips for the natural disaster.) refer to worksheet.
Actv 2
7. Individually, students have to complete activity two using the information gathered in task one.
(Write an email to a friend who has just moved to a country which has the natural disaster chosen in task one. The email is to prepare the friend on the causes, impact and safety tips for the natural disaster.)
* e-mails are sent to teacher’s email address. bubblymunir@yahoo.com

Post-Lesson
8. Teacher recaps the lesson by asking students to provide one safety tips that can be taken for each natural disaster.
9. Teacher asks students about ways to help the victims of natural disasters. The moral values behind this lesson are brought up.

Self-Evaluation
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Supervisor’s Comments

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