It was 1952 in New York and the young dancer’s name was Ni Gusti Ayu Raka Rasmi. She had never before left her home village, Peliatan, with its small, mud-walled houses surrounded by bright green rice fields....
Now she was the star of the Bali Dancers, a troupe that had traveled more than 10,000 miles into the alien worlds of the United States and Europe.
The troupe included two other female dancers about her age, Oka and Anom, and an accomplished young male dancer named Sampih.
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