Laisan is the kind of art that was attached to the art ebeg. Laisan done by a player who was “mendem” (trance man), his body crushed with a mortar continues to put in a cage, usually chicken cages, in cages that Laisan dress up like women. After first-“mantra -dimantra”, the confinement opened, and coming the man dressed as a woman complete. Laisan appear in the middle of the show ebeg. In commercial ebeg show, one of the players usually do that Thole Thole-dancing around the arena holding a winnowing to get donations. Laisan also known in other areas (wetan) and they used to call Sintren.
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