Escapy - 2017 - The Beats 2 - Digital Issue

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^ Some of my friends with the mask of animals and deities
used during the kuda kepang performance.
The Kuda Kepang performance begins with a shaman
doing some form of ritual together with the dancers,
burning incense and “bathing” in the smoke as
the shaman recites some verses. The performance
then continues with a dance where the dancers and
their wooden horses gallop about in a circle. A man
with a whip controls the dance by cracking the whip
to change the moves.