When Fairies Descended from Heavens

The palace pavilion glittered to the top with oil lamps flickering in the night breeze. The night itself was colored ink blue, and the royal courtyard suspended in golden light. The Gamelan began, slowly with lingering tinkles, gentle gongs and magical flutes. And then... fairies flew out in gold and red, orange and green, ruby lips, black eyes, with crowns, and jewels, swathed in sarongs and scarves, trailing long swirls of floating silks, descending lightly within the gold light to begin their magical dance - a Legong of slow and sensual grace, flashes of sparky eyes, shivering pointy fingers, flicks of their trailing scarves in graceful disregard, holding us rapt with dances on life, beasts, courtship, valor, humor - one memorable evening in Ubud, Bali.