Kunti's promise to Rangda

Barong dance portrays a story from Mahabharata where Sahadeva achieved immortality, a story less known to many Indians. What you see in here is Devi Kunti (Balinese refer to Kunti as Devi Kunti without fail!) at the center and Sahadeva to the right of her. Kunti had promised Rangda, an evil witch to sacrifice Sahadeva so Rangda would stop troubling innocent people.

It was difficult to judge the acting skills of these actors because they acted through theor dance based movements. Besides that all the females for some reason spoke in a sqeuaky pitch which was very distracting. Had it not been for the melodious Gambulan, I would have started focusing on other things in the auditorium than the characters. But thanks to the handouts about the show we received at the beginning, we could figure out the characters and the story. Balinese dialogs would have been a simple bouncer otherwise.