LKB Saraswati in TIM

This is a hot sunny day afternoon, on the fasting month of Ramadhan. In my limited time during my recent visit to Jakarta, I spent view hours to ride to Cikini - Jakarta, to visit Taman Ismail Marzuki (TIM).
It's really a hot afternoon, on Ramadhan, and furthermore it's on Friday (at muslims Friday noon prayer hours), the phase of the day (to my feeling) is slower than usual. Maybe I should spend my afternoon on the bed with air-condition like this cat

But, it's a normal day in TIM like another day. Activity run as usual; exhibition, events, discussion, training, etc. Lucky on the day I can witness LKB Saraswati on their training.

LKB stands for Lembaga Kesenian Bali (roughly can be translated into: Bali Arts Institute), which from the name we know what this institute about. They are have several branch teaching Bali's dance and Bali's gamelan (Gamelan is Indonesia's traditional music instruments. Java, Sunda, and several region Indonesia - which mapped to certain culture - has their own gamelan)

It's the young who has spirit to learn more (and fast)

Students observing the training, it's not their turn yet...

For every successful performance, there is always long hard training preceded it

That's all for LKB Saraswati in TIM. Enjoy your days.
(Now blabbering) I still remember when I'm kids, I "voluntarily" admitted to one of dancing institute in my hometown. That time I think that dancing is easy and fun. Lot of friends, jump here and there, not locked in the room. But it's not. The teachers (of dancing class) is very demanding, and they are shouting at you if you are not serious and at the end, I quit after only... 3 weeks? Luckily I never try wushu when one of my best fried admitted to wushu class. But years later, in my final years in primary school, this time the school forced me to take another dance lesson. It's not fun at all, and I must memorize two different dancing sets with running time each around 15-20 minutes. At the end my teacher said I'm more like doing morning exercise instead of dancing... Now when I told my friends I got two dance lessons during my childhood, they responded in disbelief. Until now I also still surprised that I'm not hurting myself that time.