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title: "Balinese agem right or left stance"
description: "Balinese agem right or left stance from a clip. Thai and Khmer hands are a different posture."
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# Balinese agem right or left stance

Balinese agem right or left stance is a weight, an elbow, and an eye line, not a step you can steal from a thumbnail. Agem kanan and agem kiri are opposites. A teacher facing you will offer you the wrong one. Thai and Cambodian court hands have their own shapes. Do not fold them into one evening.

**Short answer.** Balinese agem right or left stance starts with the side your teacher named. In a common description, agem kanan sits the weight on the right and lifts that elbow, with the eyes flicking right. A front-facing clip can show the left instead. Check leg, elbow, then eyes. Thai and Khmer hand shapes are a different practice. Dancer Mirror does not download videos. Use the class clip.

- Agem kanan and agem kiri are mirror postures. The teacher names which one.
- A facing video can show you the other agem.
- Dancer Mirror does not download videos.

**Takeaway.** Learn the side your teacher named. Check the weighted leg, then the higher elbow, then the eyes. Flip only if those three disagree with the name.

## What do you check, in order?

The weighted leg first. If the teacher said kanan and your left leg is holding you, stop. You are in the other agem, either because the picture faces you or because you prefer that side. Flip once if the picture is the cause. Step into the named leg. Do not add fingers yet. Fingers are how a wrong stance looks advanced.

Then the elbow on that side. It is often the higher one. Then the eyes, which flick toward the weighted story, not toward the camera for flattery. If the eyes go the other way, you have a pretty head on the wrong house. Fix the house.

Balinese dance, including its court forms, is introduced [here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balinese_dance). Legong, as one of those forms, is 

noted [here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legong). Neither page is your teacher's count.

| Check | Agreed | Not agreed |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Weighted leg | Stay. Do not flip. | Flip once, or you copied the other agem. |
| Higher elbow | It matches the weighted side. | The legs may be right and the arms left over from the other view. |
| Eye flick | It goes with the stance. | You are performing at the lens. Look where the stance looks. |

## Where do Thai and Khmer hands fit?

In another session. Court dances from Thailand and Cambodia shape the hands into curves and pinches that sit at different heights. One hand at the chest and one at the brow is a sentence. A flip that you used for a Balinese leg can put that sentence in the wrong mouth. If you study both, close one file before you open the other.

I am not going to number the mother postures from memory and pretend it is a syllabus. Your teacher has the order. The phone can hold a shape still so you can see which thumb pinches. It cannot replace the teacher who will correct the curve you think is finished.

## Flip for the name, then stop

If the teacher said kanan and the picture shows the weight on the screen-left leg, flip and see if kanan appears on your right. If it does, that is the view for the feet. Look at the hands after. Hands and eyes sometimes want the original picture because a gesture faces a direction in the story. Write it down. Toggle fatigue is how students drill neither agem.

The picture flip is the [mirror guide](https://dancermirror.com/guides/how-to-mirror-a-dance-video). This page is only the stance.

## This is not the adavu page

Bharatanatyam starts many strikes on the right and worries about mudras. That is a real problem and a different body. Opening it in the same hour will put an Indian classical hand on a Balinese elbow. You will not notice until a teacher does. Finish the agem first.

## Class, not a tourist clip

A stage video from a temple festival is the wrong distance. You need the teacher's torso, close enough to see the elbow. Dancer Mirror does not download videos. Keep the file they gave you. Name it with kanan or kiri if that is all the file contains. A file named 'dance' will be the wrong agem.

Eyes get tired. Ten minutes on one stance, then stop. A tired eye flick is a twitch. It is not practice.

## Sources

- [What the app does today](https://dancermirror.com/features)
- [How it works](https://dancermirror.com/how-it-works)
- [Balinese dance](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balinese_dance)
- [Legong](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legong)

Practise the side you see. Download from the stores linked on the download page.