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One of the patient at one of the biggest hospital in Japan, Kure Medical Centre Hiroshima, eventually for this hospital, it is not enough with merely giving medical treatment, they also need another kind of treatment and arguably unusual, one of them is entertainment. The interesting part in here that the hospital entertainment is not a Japanese ones but Puspawangi dance from Bali-Indonesia brought by teenagers from Jembrana Bali.

That Puspawangi dance could make patients at Kure Medical Centre Hospital who becoming tag at restrain their pain for a snatched into smile and admiration toward the graceful dancers together with its amazing gamelan music as they performed on Friday (April 30) at Kure Medical Center Hospital Japan.

Besides performing Puspawangi Dance, they also performed Tari Topeng – Masked Dance – to entertain most of elderly and medical staff at that hospital.

Head of Jembrana cultural team, I Made Sudiada when contacted via telephone said that all patients and medical teams were quite impressed with Puspawang and Topeng Dance performed with kind of Jembrana music typical, known as Jegog.

Sudiada said that the dance even reported by famous Japanese journalist as well as Japanese photographer who did not want to waste captured the moments.

Sudiada mentioned, according to one of the viewer comment, Bali had famous in that Sakura land, but not all Japanese could go there. With the arrival of the performers itself to their country at least they could feel that they had once went to Bali.

“They really appreciate Balinese culture, it proved through their warm welcome,” Sudiada said.
Puspawangi and Topeng dance performance at Kure Medical Centre was part of Jembrana art and cultural tour mission into Japan that every year conducts Hiroshima Flower Festival. The festival itself had begun from April 28 up to May 7th 2010. Jembrana-Bali cultural team never missed that international event.

News by Berita Bali