Tarian Asyik: The Traditional Dance of the Malay People

[Aepsilons]

No word can explain the beauty of this dance. Breathtaking !!

 

[Aepsilons]

@powastick

Tarian Asyik merupakan satu tarian klasik (daerah) Kelantan dan dipersembahkan di istana (Raja-Raja Kelantan). Penari-penari terdiri daripada dayang-dayang istana. Selain itu Tarian Asyik ditarikan pada hari perkahwinan, iaitu malam berinai dan malam berinai besar di istana. Hari ini Tarian Asyik dipersembahkan juga pada hari-hari temasya negeri dan negara.

Dari segi sejarah (Hikayat Patani), Raja Kuning iaitu Raja Perempuan yang memerintah Patani dalam tahun 1644 ada menyimpan 12 orang penari istana yang menyanyi dan menari dipanggil Asyik.

@Gibbs ---- check this out bro

 

[powastick]

@powastick

Tarian Asyik merupakan satu tarian klasik (daerah) Kelantan dan dipersembahkan di istana (Raja-Raja Kelantan). Penari-penari terdiri daripada dayang-dayang istana. Selain itu Tarian Asyik ditarikan pada hari perkahwinan, iaitu malam berinai dan malam berinai besar di istana. Hari ini Tarian Asyik dipersembahkan juga pada hari-hari temasya negeri dan negara.

Dari segi sejarah (Hikayat Patani), Raja Kuning iaitu Raja Perempuan yang memerintah Patani dalam tahun 1644 ada menyimpan 12 orang penari istana yang menyanyi dan menari dipanggil Asyik.

@Gibbs ---- check this out bro

PAS lead government banned it citing it as unislamic. Another more popular dance is Mak Yong.
Mak yong - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Kelantanese Islam against art and culture
Wayang kulit ncs made him an "outcast'
Puppeteer Pak Hamzah will soon receive an award from Japan, but in his home state of Kelantan, his work has been banned by PAS since 1994

By WAN HAMIDI HAMID IN KUALA LUMPUR

MEET Mr Hamzah Awang Amat, a champion of the arts outside the country but an outcast in his home state of Kelantan.

In September, Malaysia's most prominent puppeteer of wayang kulit (traditional Malay shadow play puppeteer) will receive a prestigious international arts award from Japan, putting him in the company of previous winners such as late Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa and Indian sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar.

But the 60-year-old puppeteer, who teaches wayang kulit at the National Arts Academy in Kuala Lumpur, does not speak with the unbridled joy of a winner.

He is concerned that the birthplace of this art has turned its back on its practitioners.

""Despite international recognition, the Kelantan state government still refuses to allow me to share our arts with my own people. Speaking as an artist, I am suffering because I'm denied my freedom to perform publicly in my own birth place,'' he lamented.

The traditional light and shadow performance uses puppets made from buffalo hide and mounted on bamboo sticks.

Plays are based on classical Indian epics but with Malay and Islamic content.

After taking control of Kelantan in 1990, the PAS-led state government banned it in 1994, saying it promotedun-Islamic beliefs such as paganism and Hinduism.

But he scoffs at this reasoning. He said: ""I believe the decision to ban my art is based on the whims and fancies of the state government. If not, why would they allow silat to be performed, knowing that people always bet, quarrel, fight and hate each other whenever such a show is performed?''

Since independence, PAS has ruled the east coast state for 18 years since 1959.

The Islamic conservative party then allowed traditional performances such as wayang kulit, makyong and menora (traditional east coast musicals), and tarian asyik (traditional Kelantanese dance).

Umno took over the state from 1978 but failed to maintain its rule when PAS wrested control in 1990.

According to Pak Hamzah, who has practised his art since he was 10, wayang kulit was at its peak of popularity in
Kelantan in the early 1960s when there were 120 dalangs performing all over the state, almost every night.

""Now we have less than 10 dalangs. The real experts are getting older. Some of my friends because of pride refuse to
come out from Kelantan.

""One might say they are on strike. They would rather work as rubber tappers or bricklayers rather than leave Kelantan
to perform.''

Although the ban exists, the Kelantan state government still allows the wayang kulit performance but it is the official Wednesday night only show at a cultural centre in Kota Baru. It is meant for tourists only.

Pak Kamzah also taught at Singapore's Theatre Works in 1993. There are a few styles of wayang kulit in Malaysia, but the most famous is from Kelantan.

Years ago it was performed in villages at weddings and circumcision ceremonies but now shows are only held at arts
centres, mostly in Kuala Lumpur.

On Friday night, he gave one of his rare performances at a cafe in the city. His entourage included young non-Kelantanese, who hope to save the dying art form.

 

[Indos]

No word can explain the beauty of this dance. Breathtaking !!

I bet you just focus at a particular female dancer who dances at the front......

 

[Gibbs]

PAS lead government banned it citing it as unislamic. Another more popular dance is Mak Yong.
Mak yong - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Kelantanese Islam against art and culture
Wayang kulit ncs made him an "outcast'
Puppeteer Pak Hamzah will soon receive an award from Japan, but in his home state of Kelantan, his work has been banned by PAS since 1994

By WAN HAMIDI HAMID IN KUALA LUMPUR

MEET Mr Hamzah Awang Amat, a champion of the arts outside the country but an outcast in his home state of Kelantan.

In September, Malaysia's most prominent puppeteer of wayang kulit (traditional Malay shadow play puppeteer) will receive a prestigious international arts award from Japan, putting him in the company of previous winners such as late Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa and Indian sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar.

But the 60-year-old puppeteer, who teaches wayang kulit at the National Arts Academy in Kuala Lumpur, does not speak with the unbridled joy of a winner.

He is concerned that the birthplace of this art has turned its back on its practitioners.

""Despite international recognition, the Kelantan state government still refuses to allow me to share our arts with my own people. Speaking as an artist, I am suffering because I'm denied my freedom to perform publicly in my own birth place,'' he lamented.

The traditional light and shadow performance uses puppets made from buffalo hide and mounted on bamboo sticks.

Plays are based on classical Indian epics but with Malay and Islamic content.

After taking control of Kelantan in 1990, the PAS-led state government banned it in 1994, saying it promotedun-Islamic beliefs such as paganism and Hinduism.

But he scoffs at this reasoning. He said: ""I believe the decision to ban my art is based on the whims and fancies of the state government. If not, why would they allow silat to be performed, knowing that people always bet, quarrel, fight and hate each other whenever such a show is performed?''

Since independence, PAS has ruled the east coast state for 18 years since 1959.

The Islamic conservative party then allowed traditional performances such as wayang kulit, makyong and menora (traditional east coast musicals), and tarian asyik (traditional Kelantanese dance).

Umno took over the state from 1978 but failed to maintain its rule when PAS wrested control in 1990.

According to Pak Hamzah, who has practised his art since he was 10, wayang kulit was at its peak of popularity in
Kelantan in the early 1960s when there were 120 dalangs performing all over the state, almost every night.

""Now we have less than 10 dalangs. The real experts are getting older. Some of my friends because of pride refuse to
come out from Kelantan.

""One might say they are on strike. They would rather work as rubber tappers or bricklayers rather than leave Kelantan
to perform.''

Although the ban exists, the Kelantan state government still allows the wayang kulit performance but it is the official Wednesday night only show at a cultural centre in Kota Baru. It is meant for tourists only.

Pak Kamzah also taught at Singapore's Theatre Works in 1993. There are a few styles of wayang kulit in Malaysia, but the most famous is from Kelantan.

Years ago it was performed in villages at weddings and circumcision ceremonies but now shows are only held at arts
centres, mostly in Kuala Lumpur.

On Friday night, he gave one of his rare performances at a cafe in the city. His entourage included young non-Kelantanese, who hope to save the dying art form.

Thats a shame.. These rich cultures precedes Islam, And Islam and these cultures embraced each other for hundreds of years till, Fundamentalism and Wahhabism from the Gulf states started to creep in with oil money in the last few decades

They should be encompassed, South East Asian people are not Arabs.. Kudos to those that strive to protect their culture