Ballad of Love The Dancer
Chapter 110

The mask dancers enter the performance hall. They consist of five female dancers wearing predominantly red dance clothes with batik scarves typical of Cirebon Mega Mendung.

Cirebonan mask dance is a type of sacred dance that requires a special ritual before staging it. According to local belief, the dancers must fast, abstain, until mediocre before performing the dance.

Before doing the dance performance must also give 2 kinds of offerings that symbolize women and men. The first session contained powder, combs and mirrors while the second session contained cigars and cigarettes. Equipped also with red porridge as a symbol of humans and white porridge as a symbol of the upper world.

Formerly mask dance is not staged in any place, this dance is only staged in the palace only. Since Sunan Gunung Jati brought Islam to Cirebon precisely in 1470, mask dance is used as a medium of spread of Islam along with other traditional arts.

The mask dance has five different types of masks called the Panca Wanda Mask. The five represent the stages of human life of the Single Sang Hyang who breaks himself into opposite pairs of twins, light and dark, male and female, and sea and land.

Mang Usep explains the meaning of each dance that will be performed by the dancers. The five female dancers were carrying different masks. The first dance is a peak dance using a Pandji mask that symbolizes the process of transformation of Sang Hyang Tunggal into the universe.

The tourists and visitors carefully pay attention to every explanation Mang Usep. Some of them seemed enthusiastic about recording and capturing every moment with the camera. 

Sari was intrigued to ask Dika who had been watching every move Sari.

"Mas Dika can not nanya? These are all really tourists or any of the art observers like researchers or art students?"

"Mixed mba, some are indeed doing research on the art of dance. Sometimes some come from outside the city as well." replied Dika

"From abroad there is?" ask Sari again

He was silent for a moment and then he replied, 

"I remember once, but it's been a long time. Last year we had a visit from Dutch and American tourists."

"Ordinary travelers, they came because they were interested after seeing the mask dance videos that we up on YouTube and our art blog." Arjuna who was suddenly on Sari's side cut Sari's question and answered her question.

Sari was surprised, she turned to face Arjuna who was already very close to her. His face was even too close, barely having Sari kiss Arjuna on the cheek.

Brazen, this mode people ..., inner Sari

"Eh, since when is Mas Juna here?" sari asked in an annoyed tone.

"From now on, you're so serious that you don't realize I'm here, are you?" arjuna asked while looking into Sari's beautiful eyes.

Sari could feel a strange vibration permeating her body. Arjuna pellets start working towards his target. Sari's ready.

He started messing around, well you sold me buy!

Sari took off the mask that covered her face, deliberately letting Arjuna see her pretty face. Sari casually ignores Arjuna and returns engrossed in her work to upset Arjuna.

"Want a drink?" Arjuna thrust a bottle of cold mineral water at Sari.

"Thank you, you know I'm thirsty." Sari receives a drink from Arjuna's hand. Sari cast the spell Mang Aa taught her last night, blowing the spell into the water in a new bottle drinking it.

Arjuna smiled, he thought Sari had drunk the water that contained the binding spell from her. Unfortunately the estimate is wrong, Sari who has known the cunning Arjuna managed to neutralize his binding spell.

Soon you can I conquer Sari, you are the most beautiful woman among the previous victims .. if I can have you before being made into the Abah.