Important, we can suppose that dancing in Kalimantan at that time was religious nod sacral in nature, and as the palaces of the kings were the centres of all cultural -activities, dancing in Kalimantan at tile beginning of tile Hindu-Indonesian period was also feudal. None of the Kalimantan kingdoms, neither Hindu-Kalimantan nor Islamic have left any products of dancing. The Kalimantan dances which are still preserved are those of the, people of the Dayak tribes living inland.

At present, neither the bedaya nor the srimpi is so popular among the majority of the people. However, they are still cultivated continuously being given new choreographies and made more dynamic. Next there emerged in Surakarta other compositions of Javanese operas, the langen asmara and pranasmara. The langen asmara, which comes from the word langen meaning entertainment and the word asmara -meaning love, is a Javanese dance-opera Surakarta style, composed by Prince Prabu Widaya, son of King Paku Buwana.