Established in the early eighties, the NUS Malay Dance was renamed the NUS Ilsa Tari in 1998.
With its new identity, the group aims to stage more challenging pieces.
Under the guidance of tutor/choreographer Osman Abdul Hamid, the People's Association Malay Dance Group's choreographer and Singapore's Young Artist Award winner,
the group performs traditional dances such as inang, ronggeng, zapin, lambak and silat.
It also blends contemporary dance forms - where dancers move with free flow of sharp movements - with its traditional pieces.
This results in traditional and contemporary dance.
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
First Practice after the Workshop! @
7:37 AM
Okay so let's just say for the last 4 days we (okay, actually just me) have been slacking, taking a break from the vigourous dance workshop that lasted for 6 days and ended with us learning fantastic steps and got us singing songs (albeit a bit off pitch for some *ehemMEehem*).
It felt a bit weird not having Pak Tom and Pak Piter being there with us while we did our steps, singing along. Thus we decided to TRY (the strong emphasis on try) to remember the tunes that they sang.. Well, that was sure interesting. Most of us was humming the same song for different dance sets and we had to think real hard to find out which song was matched with which dance steps, which was interesting since our last practice was a mere 4 days ago! HAHA.
ohwells, we shall just blame it on the fact that school has started and everyone has been busy doing their readings, charting their lab reports etc. that we tend to forget things easily. (:
The whole practice was basically recapping the moves and Cikgu correcting our posture to make the steps more elegant and more obvious. A few changes here and there, but overall it felt like we had to get our body back into sync with the randai moves that had been taught to us during the workshop! The practice has been captured by the video below! :)
So now you know, we have shed brain cells and perspiration in the process to bring you an enjoyable show, aren't you EXCITED!! so don't forget to check out SISTIC and buy our tickets, what with the many discounts available; it should be more than affordable!!
Established in the early eighties, the NUS Malay Dance was renamed the NUS Ilsa Tari in 1998.
With its new identity, the group aims to stage more challenging pieces.
Under the guidance of tutor/choreographer Osman Abdul Hamid, the People's Association Malay Dance Group's choreographer and Singapore's Young Artist Award winner,
the group performs traditional dances such as inang, ronggeng, zapin, lambak and silat.
It also blends contemporary dance forms - where dancers move with free flow of sharp movements - with its traditional pieces.
This results in traditional and contemporary dance.
