Traditional dance here I go!!!

I belief that dance in one way of human like us to express our feeling towards others. It is about movements that not everybody is able to understand the meaning and the reasons for every step that we take to perform the dance. At first when I look at those who is dancing, asked myself what they are trying to do. And this question stuck in my brain like forever until I have the opportunity to join what it call ‘zapin’ which is one of traditional dance in Malaysia.
I think doing ‘zapin’ is easy like a,b,c… but I’m wrong. Seriously ‘zapin’ will take may be half of your day just to make sure that you know and remember the steps to perform it. From my own experience, I feel that I’m not 110% ready to do ‘zapin’. It is very tiring and simply can make me stress. In order to make me understand the dance, I stick till the performing day. From practice I found out that ‘zapin’ has it is own beauty. It allows us to express our self in form of body movement not spoken.
If I were trying to relate this traditional dance in EDU 3217, teaching the language of drama, I would say that traditional dance can be one method to be use to understand better the characteristic and the traits of the characters. We can judge how well the actor or the actress just by looking at their body movement in stage direction. It is true when I am able to see the connection between traditional dance like ‘zapin’ and others in this course; it makes my understanding towards drama and plays much easier. Observing the traditional dances are really helpful when I have to focus on the actors and actress movement on the stage plus learning and trying to understand their characteristic. Besides that the facial expression whether in the traditional dances or in the plays or drama keeps alots of underlining meaning that I have to discover. So I hope throughout this EDU 3217, understand the traditional dances can help me understand better in dramas and plays.