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The
dancing of the common people of that period, on the other hand,
did not have a favourable development so that aesthetic values were
very low by comparison with those of the court dancing. , At the beginning, most of the dances of the Period of Feudal Society were religious. But besides these, used to be profane dancing ill the sense that its beauty was meant mainly to be enjoyed as entertainment for onlookers. The Period of Modern Society started on 17th August 1945, the day of the Proclamation of Independence. Since that date, Indonesia has been a sovereign republic; every citizen has the same rights and duties. This change of Indonesian social structure has affected the growth and development of dancing immensely. Nowadays, dancing belongs to the whole Indonesian nation. The dancing of the Period of Feudal Society that had achieved a high crystallization was taken out of the feudal court, its spirit was changed so that it has become the property of the people as a whole. This kind of dancing is now usually referred to as "classical dancing". New composition in the same vein but unrestricted by the rules of classical dancing, are called "modern dancing", and this is now in the process of heading towards crystallization. But from the point of view of their spirit and vitality, both classical and modern dancing have a spirit and essence in harmony with those of the new Indonesian society. The 11 classical" is really applied only to distinctive characteristics of dancing that contain traits and elements of the traditional dancing. Classical dancing is built on set forms, both arbitrary and traditional.
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