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This annually festival will be starting again this year on June 16 - July 14, 2007. Traditional artists and musicians from all over the island and sometimes from abroad (japan, australia, korea) were also participate in the 29th of Bali arts festival.

The first Bali Art & Festival was start in 1979 and inspiration from Prof. Dr Ida Bagus Mantra, former Governor of Bali. The idea is to preserve and accommodate the art and Balinese culture. And every year after that this festival is the place to perform their best, and to let everybody realize that some of their art already rare and has to preserve.

Bali is renowned for having maintained its traditional culture against the sweeping tides of the Bali calendar event modern world.In many parts of the Island, Life goes on as it has for centuries, with rhythms of ritual, creativity and culture still serving as a community compass, here the arts are woven into everyday, making Bali a World Center of music, dance and visual arts.

The Bali Arts Festival is a full month of daily performances, handicraft exhibitions and other related cultural and commercial activities during which literally the whole of Bali comes to the city to present its offerings of dance, music and beauty. On display are trances from remote mountain slopes, forgotten or recently revived village dances, food and offering contests, classical palace dances, stars of Balinese stage, odd musical performances, “kreasi baru” (new creations) from the dance schools of Denpasar, as well as contemporary choreography and dance companies from other islands and from abroad.

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Filed under: Bali Travel News on July 6th, 2007