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Above: Dance is
Rangda. The altercation produces
to Bali what
state of trance in the male fol¬
lowers of both deities. Amid
howls and cries of pain, the fol¬
lowers of the Barong repeatedly
stab themselves with long dag¬
a
baseball is to
America. Here
a
masked dancer
delights an
audience of
young
and old.
Below: A
but are protected by the
spirits they revere. Nary a drop of
gers,
cere¬
monial sarcopha¬
gus
blood is shed.
containing
the bones of the
dead is
con¬
was
sumed in purify¬
Still, Knobil reports, "I
completely unprepared for
the trance dance. I wasn't pre¬
ing flames.
pared for the chaos and the vio¬
lence. The density of the people
was
frightening. It was another
one
of those times where I de¬
pended on Ken Love to get me
from point A to point B. He
helped me figure out from mo¬
ment to moment what was going
on and he kept an
eye out for me
and my safety.
"Many, many times
when I've been shooting, I've
looked through the camera at the
ground glass and I've seen as¬
tounding things. Yet, I tend not to
think of my body as really being
there when I'm shooting. I get too
involved in framing and moving.
That is so completely absorbing
that there's no room left over for
self-awareness. But in this case,
when my viewfinder was filled
with crazed, slobbering people
brandishing long daggers, I was
acutely aware of my body. I
found the whole experience very
scary."
He may have been
scared, but his documentarian
instincts were not dulled. "In any
situation that is the least bit ver-
ite, anytime you get a great shot,
you're thinking 'What do I need
use this? Do I need a wide
shot? An insert?' Coverage is
second nature. So on the one
to
hand, I'm grabbing things in
front of me, and, on the other, I'm
trying to shoot coverage.
"The trance dance is
a
very long ceremony, but it started
very quickly and I missed it. One
moment hundreds of
people are
sitting and praying and then in
one instant
they rose as a body
and shouted WHOA! and the
next
thing you know everyone is
a trance. I
writhing around in
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