Monday, August 6, 2007

Does Mak Yong Has Been A Past To Our Tradition Already??

Last time when people were extremely fascinating with dancing which not just emerged in a fortnight, the connection suddenly bridged into my mind when we actually learnt a brief about makyong dance, a figure of a woman talking to a man named Li, telling her heart-robed story, her part of life being forgotten and almost vanished from the origin, that is makyong. It was said that mak yong came from Kelantan. But the dancers in the sort of self-monologue said they were all moved to Terengganu because they were accused of doing against the religion which is Islam. This is because the dancing does have the element of shamanism. But the dancing part can be altered so it would not continuously be said as sinners (the dancers).
But as to me, practicing something that have the traditional values must be continue. Or else, it will be like the dinasours, we can just witnessed them in an Encyclopedia or documentation books in the library. It is a sad thing to see things for generations been passed on, then come to an extinction. People nowadays search for entertainments through the most sophisticated gadgets like surfing through the Net, listening music using MP3, and lots and lots more. It's not an odd thing to entertain yourself but these kind of enjoyments leads to the extinction of plays and dance especially like mak yong dance. No one still interested to continue to inherit the dance and pass it on to new generations.

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