We got rhythm: Pauses, missteps, detours: mis-dancing towards Tarian’s new (Ir)regular

Muhd Noramin, Mohd Farid (2021) We got rhythm: Pauses, missteps, detours: mis-dancing towards Tarian’s new (Ir)regular. In: Arrhythmia Performance Pedagogy and Practice, 4:40pm – 5:00pm - 4th June 2021, Online.

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Title: We got rhythm: Pauses, missteps, detours: mis-dancing towards Tarian’s new (Ir)regular
Synopsis:

Percussive nuances in traditional Malay music act as identifiers that determine the exact Malay dance genre to perform. These specific rhythms are produced by playing on a Malay traditional single frame drum, the Rebana, and signals a competent dancer to know which genre to perform and the distinct movement vocabulary to employ. Hence, dancing to the beat in tarian (bergerak mengikut rentak) is a convention, a strict dependence of knowing what and when to keep pace; the role to characterise; the social context to manifest, and the decorum to observe. It must be said, however, that despite this presumed rigid modulation, there are and has always been interstices to improvise.
I invoke the colloquial term, langgar lagu, often used by practitioners to describe a moment when the end of a movement phrase does not coincide with a song’s colotomic marker, as a coherent entry point alongside the conference’s theme, arrhythmia. Through langgar lagu, I highlight the moments of pauses, missteps, and detours as both tactics and strategies to describe the agency in which I
improvise to keep moving and creating “off-beat” in this Covid-19 environment.
This presentation is my critical reflection, as a practitioner-researcher, of my own practice creating artistic work and my role as an arts educator at tertiary schools in a period that has been described as “unprecedented” and “disruptive”.

Uncontrolled Keywords: WeGotRhythmPanel6
Subjects: Performing Arts
Divisions: Publications > Conference Paper
Depositing User: Ms Ashalatha Krishnan
Date Deposited: 18 Aug 2021 15:31
Last Modified: 04 Oct 2021 02:05
URI: http://drlib.lasalle.edu.sg/id/eprint/973
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