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Location
Ardha Chandra or known as Art Center in Bahasa Indonesia is
Taman Budaya located at Kecamatan Kesiman, municipality of
Denpasar. More precisely is at the southern end of the Nusa
Indah street of East Denpasar city. Three access can be taken
to reach the area, one is from Sanur taking Jalan Hang Tuah
from where bigger cars can enter, or from the crossroad of
Jalan Gianyar and Gatot Subroto which is preferable to got
with traffic flows already in line as in Indonesia including
Bali the line is on the left. Third access is from west Denpasar
city which are available many roads, but all are difficult
due to the dense traffic, Only smaller cars such as taxi or
mini van are suggested to access art center from the west.
Geographically today ardha chandra looks lay in the center
of Denpasar city, due to the extension of the east Denpasar
further east, up to the border with Kabupaten Gianyar, a distance
of more then 5 km east and with the opening of beach road
to the east Bali the extension of the city is even further
east along the road. Before 2000 the Kecak dance was presented
at one of the corner of ardha chandra, and due to the difficulty
for bigger bus then organizer of the dance moved the stage
to the new place just on the right side of main road from Sanur to Kesiman.
Ardha Chandra or Art Center
Taman Budaya or Art Center architecturally is a complex of
buildings with the main mark of a big open stage. Designed
by a traditional Balinese architect Ida Bagus Pugur, opened
for public in 1973. Besides the traditional open stage there
are many buildings and hall constructed in Balinese architecture
with finest decoration. These buildings are consist of two
types, one type is for permanent exhibition and others are
for seasonal exhibition, especially during Bali Art Festival
of June every year. Two buildings with the finest Bali architecture
are for permanent exhibition where one can see various art
of Bali from dance facilities or figures, carvings, clothing
arts, paintings, and others. During Bali art festival the
whole buildings ar filed with exhibition of all type of products,
not only art products but also history, books, daily needs,
creative products, governments departments with their duties
and others. A real bustling situation during one month of
the feast. The activities at the open stage even more lively,
as scheduled life shows present their representatives from
traditional dance or drama or pantomime from Bali, other Indonesian
provinces and foreign participants. Loyal foreign participants
so far such as India, Thailand, USA, France, Australia, Japan,
and Korea. New country such as Vietnam and Cambodia have also
actively participating. The mot interesting moment is during
the opening of the art festival, which is always started from
Puputan City square with procession of dances, musics, decorations,
marshal art and others, finishing at Renon city square where
invited high officials and foreign officials are waiting in
a temporary set up Bali traditional pavilions with thatched
roof. Along the way the procession which consist of various
artists show their actions or dance catch up by many TV stations
or journalists. The procession usually started at 9 pm and
finishes 12 noon marking the start of a month long art festival.
The livelihood of the situation can be seen both at the exhibition
and at the open stage starting from the night of the opening
ceremony with the procession. Every evening or night has been
scheduled the turn of each representative to present their
show which is normally has been confirmed long before the
event. During the day the open stage also not always rest,
but some times the school or universities will fill with many
activities such as life drum band, drama or any other art
activities they can present. Beside normal show there are
also a kind of competition among the same traditional music
of Bali such as Gong, and the winner will be given the appreciation.
All these activities schedule can be found at the office of
Dinas Kebudayaan in Renon Denpasar.
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