History of Bali Arts Festival

>When tourism began after 1965, that the Balinese cultural guidelines, if tourism would be accepted, it was a cultural tourism, or “pariwisata Budaya”. As the Balinese put it: “Tourism should be in place for Bali instead of Bali for tourism”. In time, this idea is the national policy as part of a larger regional cultures for national purposes.

History of Bali Arts Festival

The policy has a lot to thank the former Director-General for Culture (1968-1978) and Governor of Bali (1978-1988), Ida bagus Mantra, an Indian-educed Balinese. It has led, on the one hand, the creation of enclave resorts such as Nusa Dua to limit the direct impact of tourism and on the other hand, a long-distance cultural policy aimed at promoting and preserving traditional agrarian culture, while adapting to the demands of modernity, and in particular of “cultural tourism.”

At the village level, local groups of music, dance and other cultural events were inventoried and subsequently supported by a series of competitions at the district and regency council level. The resulting competition energized cultural life of the villages, the “young blood” was removed to the city through the process of economic change and urbanization.

Schools of dance and visual art were created, notably the Kökar conservatory and STSI School for Dance and Music. Besides research, these schools will replace the traditional master / apprentice relationship with modern methods of teaching; standardized dance movements, new forms of Balinese dance for village tourism and modern entertainment.

Main, the former students are able to return to the villages as teachers, where they spread, in addition to the creed of cultural resilience and innovation, new dances and standardized versions of old one. Many of the performances are held in the amphitheater that can hold up to 6,000 spectators in a temple-like stage.


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