The Barong presented here is called Barong Keket. This Barong Keket wear a mask, corresponding with a mythical "lion" and the folower friend "monkey" and This type is the most popular Barong.

No one can explain the meaning of the word Barong. The name of the Barong depends on the animal represented. If the mask is of a tiger (in Balinese: Macan) the Barong is then called Barong Macan, and so if the mask is of 2 boar (in Balinese: Celeng or Bangkal) the Barong is then called Barong Bangkal.

Barong, a mythical creature with long swayback and curved tail, represent the affirmative, the protector of Mankind, the glory of the high sun, and the favorable spirits associated with the right and white magic.

Rangda, the widow-witch, is its opposite complement. She rules the evil spirits and witches who haunt graveyards late at night. Her habitat is darkness and her specialties lie with the practice of black magic, the destructive force of the left.

Both figures are of the same earthly substance, possessing strong magical prowess. Somewhere in a mythical past, the Barong was won over to the side of humanity, and in the dance, fights on behalf of the people against the intruding death forces of the Rangda.

The barong play represent an eternal fight between Good and Evil; the Barong represent Good the Rangda , the mythological monster, represents Evil. It stages the story of Kunti Sraya, a favourite theme of drama, depicts from the main episode of the famous Hindu epic, the Mahabharata. This special story is about Dewi Kunti, the mother of the five Pandawas who for some reasons, has promised to sacrifice Sadewa, one of her five sons to Rangda.

The dance preceeded by a prelude and an intermezzo and performed as follows:

Preludie:
The barong appears with his friend, the monkey. Then come three masked men, the palm wine tapers who are very angry with the barong for killing a child of one of them. They attack the barong who is helped by the monkey.During the fight the nose one of the three men is bitten off by the monkeys.

Intermezzo:
Two girls dressed up very beautiful traditional do the Legong dance.

The performance:

First act:
Two servants of Dewi Kunti, Punta and Wijil come up; Punta is telling his younger brothers (Wijil). The sad news that their beloved master (Sahadewa) he will be sacrificed to the Rangda today. A hair rising howling sound is herd, then followed by the appearance of a frightening witch. After the witch disappears, punta and Wijil request the patih (minister) to come soon.

Second act;
The Patih appears and after dancing for a while he squat down and makes prying gesture towards the temple gate. Dewi Kunti enters the stage followed by a servant and shortly afterward Sahadewa appears. Being a loving mother she has not the heart to sacrifice he belove son. However a witch enters and bewitches her. She become angry and orders to Patih to take Sahadewa to the forest in where the Ranga lives.

Third act:
The Patih also loving Sahadewa very much and he does not like his task. He has very sad nearly cries. Again the witch arrives and bewitches the Patih. He become angry and take Sahadewa to the forest. He ties him on a tree in front of the abode of the Rangda.

Fourth act:
While Sahadewa tied on a tree and waits for arrival of his killer, the God of Ciwa appears. He has pity on Sahadewa and therefore gives him immortality.

Fifth act:
The Rangda come out, carried on the shoulders of her followers. She is ready and eager to kill Sahadewa, but because the immortality given by Ciwa, the Rangda can't kill him. Admitting that she can not kill Sahadewa, she ask him for redemption so her (her soul) can go to heaven. Sahadewa agreed and redeem her. Her soul goes to the heaven.

Sixth act:
The Randa has a disciple by name of Kalika. She also want to be redeem like her master, but Sahadewa refuses and there ensues a fight between Sahadewa and Kalika. Kalika using her magic power, meditates and transforms herself into a boar. This boar is defeated. Out she come gain and this time is crow (Garuda / Jabali). She fights and loses again and for the third time she transform herself into the powerful of Rangda, as Ranga, she is too powerful for Sahadewa. He meditates and becomes a Barong. There is short fights between the Rangda and the Barong, but the fight is undecided and the Barong leaves the stage to call his followers.

Seventh act:
Out come of Barong's followers with the Kris and dance with their Kris to attack the Rangda, evil can not yet be destroyed. By the spell of Rangda, the Kris on the hand of those followers turn against to them, but the magic of the Barong hardened their flesh so that although they push the sharp points of the Kris, the dangers, with all their might against their naked chests, they are not even hurt ………… only by a complete trance can the dance be performed with impunity; otherwise a man will wound himself or hurt others. Possessed as they are, they have a super natural power or strength and it takes many men to hold them down to disarm. To take the men out of trance, they are led, one by one, to where the barong stand and the Pemangku (the temple priest) puts sacrificial offerings on the ground. After finished to recite "mantras" the magic formulas, they then sprinkles holy water to the face of each man and gradually the hysterical men come out of trance, daze, simply walking away as if they did not know what had happened to them.
The temple priest to sacrifice a black color baby chicken and the blood should be spilled on the ground as a blood sacrifices to please the evil spirits,

The Balinese dance such as Barong dance, barong - rangda dance, barong landung dance, pendet dance, Puppet show, kecak dance, legong dance, mask dance, baris dance, fire dance, janger dance, sanghyang dance Jauk dance, Oleg tamulilingan dance, Ramayana ballet dance, Arja Dance, Drama opera, Joged Dance, and many more dance.

Those kind of dances are divided in two three classes:
- The dance for religious performances when there is Hindu ceremony / festival.
- The dance for entertainments only when the people celebrating any party.
- And the dance for entertainments and ceremony.

From those many kind of dancing in here we describe the Barong Dance, Ketchak dance, Legong dance, fire dance and others dance step by step.
The show end.