Elegant ladies:  Moving with grace, these dancers brought back to life an ancient legend of male legong dancers.

Backstage concentration is broken by giggles as a group of dancers dot rouge to cheeks, glue false eyelashes like butterfly wings to painted eyelids and dab at perspiration beginning to pour down elegant necks.

Wrapped tight in the traditional Balinese legong costume of golds, reds and yellows; these dancers are taller and heavier than the prepubescent female troupes the ancient Balinese Hindu dance normally calls for.

They are also of a different gender.

Performing recently at the Bali Arts Fair were members of the Sanggar Seni Klasik Ada Narkwan Cross Gender troupe, a group of legong dancers brought together in 2011 to revive a rare style of the dance.