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.
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ReplyDeleteI'm very proud to read your blog as it is not easy for guys to say something like this. i mean most of my male friends would rather say that traditional dance is just for ladies. you are right. only those who has experienced it will know how difficult to perform the traditional dance compare to modern dance. i think..hehe..
one more thing, i really agree with you about the idea that by performing the dance, we can feel and understand the actors and the actress movement in a play. In my opinion, it is because when performing the dance, we already can feel the feeling of being on the stage and be a performer. It's a nice feeling.
So, let's save our cultural heritage and be proud!!!!!!
Mohd Khalis Sumardi (144524)says;
ReplyDeleteGood to hear you:
Overall, I get what are you trying to say because seriously, the earth is dying. Less people want to expose themselves doing this stuff. Seriously, you are one and only who really think that it is good to learn something that related with your culture. By the way, I believe it isn't easy to implement something like this. Stick to what you love and my advice is as long as you have the right determinition, nothing can go wrong. Just stick to your faith, keep your finger cross and then do whatever you like because nobody can bring you down. Go traditional dance!!!
p.s> I'm not into tradtional dance. F.Y.I!!
hahaha.
Aloha Sadiq...
ReplyDeleteI do agree with you, Sadiq. Dance movements cannot be understood by everyone. Those who knows about the dance are the ones who can know the underlying meaning of the steps in the dance. Same as you Sadiq, by looking at Zapin, I have thought it is a very easy dance as it contains very easy steps. However, I was wrong. When we were asked to practice Zapin in IPTI that was when I realise how difficult it could be. It may look like a smooth and soft dance, but once I dance it only I know the movements were not easy to be learned. When I was in the shoe that is when I understand how difficult it was to dance it.
Well, in my opinion, blending traditional dance with plays and dramas is a good way to uphold their roots. I think that all traditional dances are having a extinction period in this globalised world. Thus, by bringing injecting issues that revolves around traditional dances can actually give awareness to others. I think as Malaysian, it is also necessary for us to know other race’s traditional dance. As Sadiq said, each dance has their own underlying meaning in it. We have the opportunity to see all the dances in the same place itself, so why should we be ignorant towards the different traditional dances. :-)