I hope you have formed your theater group.
Please make sure that you follow the requirements that I have stated in our previous meeting.
Remember that your 1st draft of chosen script (an interesting one I hope???) is due the 2nd week of the semester.
Let us hope semester Pertama 2008 will be an interesting and a challenging one for you and me.
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 400 of 501 Newer› Newest»i've done my dialogue with azila.
for tis time around, i was not too nervous compared to the monologue session because it was a pair work activity. we changed our story line just the night before the performance day. i was afraid actually to change that but later i think may be changing the story would be better for us.but to be honest, i hate last minutes changes..
on that day of performing, we skipped a few lines. azila couldn't memorize her line. so, she stop.and i can't take turn the conversation because in the script, i have to response to what azila said before. i don't know what to say. so, i just skipped it. as pn ju said, in dialogue, we have to cooperate to each other and try to help if our partner doesn't remember her lines but on that time, i also can't remember azila's line. i think this is the result of lack practise.
and again, voice projection is the problem. we should work on our voice projection.
MONOLOGUE
I did it!! For me I had performed my best dialogue in front of my classmates. I knew this is my best performances since my audience is really amused with my performances. (^-^)
Actually, I’m not lying when I said that it is a spontaneous performance. I do not practicing the monologue because I feel it sounds stupid when I talk English to myself. When I try to practice in my room, I feel ashamed to myself although I am alone in my room. So, I just remember the points that I should say aloud in my monologue. There are some parts that are not in my plan but it come out spontaneously when I’m on stage. For example, I do not plan to say “Yes! Yes! Yes! You can do it!” with my perfect hand gesture (hahaha…) but it still happens and it makes the performance more interesting.
I become so motivated when Puan Ju praises me and said that it is a good performance. At that moment, I myself cannot believe that I can do as much as that. However, I still need improvement. I must show the facial expression that can support my feelings and speeches. As Puan Ju said, I actually can do better than that!
DIALOGUE
My partner, Imah and I come out with the idea of a bully and its victim. Using Imah’s idea, I had to wear the school uniform with the shorter kain kurung like a gangster girl always does. That is why she called me “Kain Singkat” in our dialogue. Since Imah is smaller and shorter than me, I called her as “Pendek”. Hehehe… That is how we come out with the title of “Kain Singkat vs. Budak Pendek”.
How to make the most successful facial expressions? I have to learn to do that. For my dialogue, I quite do not satisfy with my facial expressions. I cannot make the bad and evil face although I am a bully. I can raise my voice but I cannot make the evil look. Even there are certain parts that I feel like I want to laugh because of my facial expressions.
In short, I quite satisfy with our overall performance since all the things that we had discussed are performed accordingly.
the next minor performance was dialogue. for this task, we have to work in pairs and create a conflict. my partner was nurrizzana. days before the performance, we have decided to create a conflict between two wifes of the same man. however, night before the performance, we decided to change it into a conflict between two sisters because we realize that we could not do the first one since we are not married yet and we could not have the feeling. during the performance, we forgot some of the script. because of that, i keep on repeating the same thing and we finished the dialogue. honestly, i did not really satisfied with my acting. i realize that it is quite difficult to do an acting. we have to remember the script, have the feeling of the character, make the suitable facial expressions and many more.
Monologue…monologue and monologue. For the whole week I’ve been thinking about this monologue thing…It is very stressful because for the first time, we need to prepare this assignment individually. I am totally nervous because I never act alone in front of people. Yes, I admit that I love acting but to act alone….arghhh…I don’t think so. My monologue was about a girl who can’t accept that her boyfriend had been killed by a group of gangsters while trying to help solving a quarrel. In this monologue, I think I’ve already gave my 100% commitment in it. I just so surprise how I can control my nervousness while performing this task although during that time, all the seniors are there starring and watching at me like they want to eat me…Horror! Whatever it is, I enjoyed this performance and I think I just fall in love with theater once again… ;)
Never thought it’s kinda hard to portray a conflict-the kind of conflict that audience actually can understand, within the time limit given. It’s easy enough to throw out emotions when you’re angry, frustrated, sad. But it’s quite another thing in performing live. Anxiety! Anxiety! Again.
You want to get real angry, but somehow it just stuck. And it sems you’re not angry much-as much as you should be in your character.
Hmmm…. Memorizing the dialog was another thing….I really need to get my lines straight. Really need to gather my concentration. But I guess, it’s kinda average (my performance, I mean) well, I’m no and never was an actor…I guess, in the learning process it’s kinda okay….
Never thought it’s kinda hard to portray a conflict-the kind of conflict that audience actually can understand, within the time limit given. It’s easy enough to throw out emotions when you’re angry, frustrated, sad. But it’s quite another thing in performing live. Anxiety! Anxiety! Again.
You want to get real angry, but somehow it just stuck. And it sems you’re not angry much-as much as you should be in your character.
Hmmm…. Memorizing the dialog was another thing….I really need to get my lines straight. Really need to gather my concentration. But I guess, it’s kinda average (my performance, I mean) well, I’m no and never was an actor…I guess, in the learning process it’s kinda okay….
“I am blank” that was the title of my monologue. Truly, I was blank during the whole performance. The whole week before the actual performance, I have no idea about what to do. Thinking about standing alone and performing my monologue in front of the audience makes me feel scared. So, I decided to be myself. It’s hard to expose yourself and your feeling to other people. You have to be in the character, concentrate and totally ignore your surrounding. I was so nervous during my monologue. I am so conscious with my surrounding. I didn’t do well. But, the whole experience really taught me something. Let go of your feeling and be free to explore all the emotions. I also learn to project my voice and learn to concentrate.
My partner for the dialogue performance is Nurul. I am quite relief because this time I’m not alone. Both of us came up with the idea of psycho people. For me, it was a layback and enjoyable performance that I had. We manage to practice a few times just before the actual performance. A few ideas are added in last minutes. So, the performance was a bit spontaneous. The props that we used really helped me to lower my anxiety level and our performance. I keep looking and playing with the cards and saidina to cover my nervousness. Nurul also helped me in the way that she is so confident and projection of her voice was loud and clear. So, I tried my best to be as good as she is. I have learned to maintain facial expressions while in the character. I am satisfied and happy with our dialogue performance.
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Minor Performance: Sound and Story
Our first activity is to create a story using just our mouth. It means that we have to create a story through the sounds of our mouth. After we had discussion with our group that is NAUGHTY ANGEL finally we decided to do a story about innocents’ people being ambush by the terrorist. In this story we used the sound of people play flute, bird chirping, happy children (harmony) bomb, child and parents crying, and terrorist laughing (chaos). As for me I have been selected to be a child and I have to making playful sound and finally crying, quite hard actually but I do as best as I could. As soon as we got the idea, we do rehearsal at Aini's room and finally we decided to test our voice we go to the centre of 'padang kawad' and it was an enjoyable moment that we had. when it time for the performance my group and I felt very anxious and worried, then come our turn, we do as same what we rehearsed and for me we already do our best and I am very proud for my group. Through this kind of activity we can build team work and finally we realized that different people have different opinion and interpretation about something that is seem same to all people.
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Minor performance: Rhythm and Movements.
Second activity is to create dances that represent our group. As soon as I and my group heard it from Puan Ju, we all felt so worried and do not have any idea to choreograph the move. Besides that our group does not have dancers like other group. So, after we discussed for along time we finally decided to create a dance that simple, enjoyable and easy for us to followed the move. As far as I seen that our group is the simplest performance and I really proud and enjoy when we do our practice. During our practice we were having a lot of good time and always laughing when we do our practice session. We decided to do our practice in Aini’s floor rather than the other group that do their practice in PKP and BSB. I frankly said that our group is the simplest and low profile group because we did not showed our performance in front of the people until the performance day come. I admit that the other group had made an incredible and beautiful dance performance, but for us it is ok at least we enjoyed our performance.
We choose three kind of music that is pink panther, chicken dance and stupid cupid song. I think that our performance is quite different with the others because of the easy and simple movements and we wore white glove and pink hat. Overall we all very satisfied with our performance and very happy. We got comments from Puan Ju that she said that we need to be creative in making the chicken dance move and we lack of stamina when dancing. All Puan Ju’s comments and advice we will keep and as guidance for us to be prepare for our next activity / task.
In week 6, Pn. Juridah entered the class and gave a briefing about our next performance; that is the tribal dance. Besides, we were also required to do the mask for the performance. My group and me sat together after that and discussed about the tribal dance. It is not only a dance, but we must also include the story and also our own language, which we have to create it for the purpose of the task. This will be a tough job to do because we have to be creative for this performance. It requires us to create some materials that can be used especially the costumes, the musical instruments and etcetera. After all, I think the next performance must be fun.
This week, my friends and I had created our own masks for our next performance, which is next week. According to our next performance-tribal dance, we were required to create masks as our own identity. Besides, we also have to create our costumes and language that we will communicate to each other during the performance. While we were painting our masks with colors, we were also discussed on what is the story that we will perform next week. It is something related to sacrifice. I hope we will perform the best for next week’s presentation.
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Minor Performance: Sculptor and Sculpture.
I think if I not mistaken, for this activity/task we were given just only 1 day to practice. The next task that Puan Ju gave is SCUPTOR AND SCULPTURE and the performance will be guess by the other group. At first all the course mates did not understand what is Puan Ju ask us to do, after Puan Ju gave the explanation about the task briefly then we understand. After finished class, I and my group decided to do our discussion in Aini’s room and on that day we finally get the idea to do ‘Japanese Restaurant’ that maybe easier to the other group to guess. Our group decided to do a sculptor who creates people who ate at the Japanese restaurant. There were six sculptures that are 2 waitresses, 3 people eating and 1 cook. One think I like about my group is because we don’t have to think long to get the idea for our performance, as soon we get the idea we straight do the practice. The practice session just only take for a few hours only then after we understand our role and satisfied with it we stop and get a rest.
On the performance day, our group is the last group to perform, so we had a chance to look other group to do the performance, as everyone said for me I think Linda’s group and Khairil’s group had done their performances the best. When it comes our turn, by that time I and my group already felt tired but we do as best as we could. Thank god, the other groups can guess our performances and Puan Ju gave some comment. For me when we want to do ‘SCUPTOR AND SCULPTURE’ we must have a strong stamina and patient this is because for those who being the sculpture had to sit or stand for a long period and our body must stiff due to what sort of the sculptor wants to create/shape. Besides that the sculptor herself should be a creative person to creates/shapes the sculptures to make it more interesting and attractive. Lastly I think that this kind of task can be brought into classroom as set induction for students to get their attention before the teaching process started.
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Minor Performance: Monologue.
(Dilemma of a young girl)
As soon as Puan Ju gave the next task, I suddenly become very worried and blur. It is because the next task was to assign us to write our own script of monologue. Monologue? What am I going to do? I don’t have any idea to write the script. Fortunately, our class makes a trip to DBP to watched monologue performances by Fauziah Nawi production; even it is in Malay at least I get some idea from it. After a long thinking, I finally decided to do something that relates to my life, in a hope that I can get into the character easily but I do not happened. Why? Because I can not get into the character and it was difficult for me to do the practice because when I want to practice it will not working and my monologue became messed up. So because of that I finally decided to memorize the script only and on the performance day I just do spontaneously the acting. Here comes the t day and I am the first person for the second session, got butterfly in my stomach, however I still had to do the monologue. It is my turn, and I straight sat in front of Puan Ju and my course mates, nervous but I try to hide it. I just sat there and start to do the monologue, oh god I forgot my script and I just said what ever that cross on my mind, what a shamed and how disappointed I am. But it is ok, at least I have done my monologue and I am so relieved. Puan Ju said that I need to talk to the audience, I am lack of facial expression and also lack of spacing, it is ok for me because I don’t do the practice and I accept the comment, kept it as my motivation and guide line for my next task. For me monologue needs lot of practices and only the person that have enough confident and can talk freely can do the monologue better. For me the best is from Lee Siam funny story and Nurul sad story and made all the people around her felt what she felt.
Monologue
I find this minor performance to be very challenging out of the previous performances. I’m sure many of my friends feel the same way too. It is nerve wrecking to know that you have to act or do a monologue by yourself, all alone on the stage and everyone staring at you. My god, the thought of having to do that, creeps me. Whatever it is, obviously I had to go through that. I had to think of ideas on what I want to act as and finally I made a decision to do a monologue about how Malaysians and New Yorkers behave when they are in public places. Since I have experienced both places, so why not show it to everybody on how different these people behave, right? It was a bit hard to think about the script. I had to think situations and act it out properly so that the audience really knows what I’m talking about. I had to switch characters based on different situations. That was challenging.So it is difficult to really get into that character because I had to switch to a different character. Like Puan Ju said, I should’ve focused on just one situation. But anyway, I got through it and what a relief! Overall, I had fun doing the monologue because it mainly helps me explore myself on whether I have that gift in acting which obviously is not! Haha. And I also learned that no matter how much nervous you are, you just have to be calm and concentrate and everything will take care of itself.
Minor Performance : Monologue
I find this minor performance to be very challenging out of the previous performances. I’m sure many of my friends feel the same way too. It is nerve wrecking to know that you have to act or do a monologue by yourself, all alone on the stage and everyone staring at you. My god, the thought of having to do that, creeps me. Whatever it is, obviously I had to go through that. I had to think of ideas on what I want to act as and finally I made a decision to do a monologue about how Malaysians and New Yorkers behave when they are in public places. Since I have experienced both places, so why not show it to everybody on how different these people behave, right? It was a bit hard to think about the script. I had to think situations and act it out properly so that the audience really knows what I’m talking about. I had to switch characters based on different situations. That was challenging.So it is difficult to really get into that character because I had to switch to a different character. Like Puan Ju said, I should’ve focused on just one situation. But anyway, I got through it and what a relief! Overall, I had fun doing the monologue because it mainly helps me explore myself on whether I have that gift in acting which obviously is not! Haha. And I also learned that no matter how much nervous you are, you just have to be calm and concentrate and everything will take care of itself.
Minor Performance : Dialogue
For the dialogue performance, I chose Jasmine as my partner. We discussed and brainstormed ideas about what we want to act as. Finally, we decided to act as in-laws, Jasmine being ‘Mek’ and me being ‘Temah’. The issue here is that they quarrel accusing the daughter in-law to be too materialistic and the son in-law who does not give enough money to his wife which happens to be Temah’s daughter. We did not want to act as girls fighting over a guy which I think is too cliché. Anyway, after dealing with the script and all, we had to think about our costume and the props. We decided to wear kebayas and wear lots of bangles and necklaces to reflect those modern ‘makciks’ and datins. It was kind of funny for us, because we had to act like old ladies bragging over little things. We then practiced our dialogue just to make sure that it runs smoothly. Overall, I really enjoyed myself and had fun acting with Jasmine because acting as old ‘makciks’ is fun!
Dialogue..
This time I was being a step-daughter and Sophia was the step-mother. I was a little bit frustrated because I think that I was not into character when performing the dialogue. But it’s ok then.. May be next time I will have a better chance to improve my performing skills. By the way, I was so impressed with some of my course mates who are really into characters and perform very well. When we are talking about impressed watching others’ performances, it means that the performances were really good. Some of my friends created such a good story and they could keep our eyes watching them till the end! Now I realize that it is not easy to be a performer as we have to feel and be into character to catch the audiences..
Dialogue..
This time I was being a step-daughter and Sophia was the step-mother. I was a little bit frustrated because I think that I was not into character when performing the dialogue. But it’s ok then.. May be next time I will have a better chance to improve my performing skills. By the way, I was so impressed with some of my course mates who are really into characters and perform very well. When we are talking about impressed watching others’ performances, it means that the performances were really good. Some of my friends created such a good story and they could keep our eyes watching them till the end! Now I realize that it is not easy to be a performer as we have to feel and be into character to catch the audiences..
Minor Performance 5: Dialogue.
In this assignment, I have worked with my partner, Siti Aza Yana to act out a scene by using the dialogue. As we were asked to do a conflict in the scene, we have chosen to act the scene that really happen in our society; the common situation in our country. The story is basically about the waitress whom cannot accept the customer’s behaviour. As they are dealing with the human being, they should have a high degree of patience. But, in this scene, the waitress seems to be honest; by telling the customer the truth. As the customer, she had been very choosy and the attitude had made the waitress became angry. In this task, we are really impressed with other’s idea and acting. They are really good, and we can see that the conflict is common and really happen around us. So, we can relate it to our own life which is really good for us as we can reflect back our attitude.
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Minor Performance: Dialogue
After monologue, Puan Ju had gave us another task that is dialogue. luckily, Azliza had ask me to be her partner in this task. we were required to cteate a conflict dialogue. As for me and Azliza we decided to do a conflict between sisters. This dialogue is about two sisters who having conflicts in their life. Alisa as an older sister having conflict with her sister Anne. Anne's character was very contast with Alisa because she was described as a 17 years old girl who is socialize and always play truant in her school. while Alisa was a kind of girl who was very concern about her sister but dont know how to show to her sister. The conflicts arised when Alisa got a call from her friends that informed that her younger sister, Anne was at the Club. At first she did not believed the news, but as soon as she went to the club, she was shocked. she saw her sister drinking, smoking and wore unappropriate attire. Alisa then drag her Anne out from the club and here the conflicts began and the climatic scenes was when Alisa asked forgiveness to her sister Anne and she did not accept it and ran away from her sister.
for me this kind of task really test my confidence and anxiety level, this is where we can see either we manage to overcome our nervousness when facing lots of people around us. Then it also tested on our voice projection when presenting the dialogue as practice for us to become a teacher. Besides that it also shows our creativity in creating the dialogue script and how we manage to handle the situation if we forgot the script. As for our comments from Puan Ju, we lack of spacing where especially for me i dont know how to centralize my position and body posture when presenting the dialogue, at least my voice projection had some improvements and i still had nervousness. finally it was an exciting and creative perfromances from all the groups.
This week we are required to perfom tribal dance where we need to have a mask. I feel that this task was the tougest of all the minor performance because it demand a lot of from us especially our time and it really kills my brain cells a lot. We need to think about the language, steps and even the story line. I feel my group members and me were really worn out because lack of man power, therefore we had limited steps. Despite of all the challenges, I learn a lot about patience and also able to understand how it feels to be a person who live in uncivilised era. I felt very proud of my group because we really stick to the nature principle where we only use natural materials like leaf, beans, flowers and stones. We feel that being in a tribe, it is the best if we keep the modern elements out. I have to say that our voice projection were weak because I realise it was difficult due to the mouth width of the mask. Therefore, the width of the mouth of the mask is really important and it has to be BIG, even the eyes too. This time, we had learn a lot from creating unknown language to make a mask and then to think creatively how to create sound from natural sources. Many thanks to Jolyne, Faez, Lee Siam and Agnes for this task.
monologue
when were assigned to do this, i was thinking how am I going to perform my monologue? i mean monologue is about letting out all the feelings and acting like a complete idiot. but then again, i found that monologue help a lot in understanding others. as for myself, i became a transvestite or better known as 'mak nyah'. at fisrt it was kinda hard for me as i am going to focus on the taboo issue, but with the help of my friends who gave me plenty of ideas on how i am going to be a mak nyah, i managed to act out my monologue well.
i changed my voice into a maknyah's voice, which is tough! cant actually believe that i can do it!hehe. i mean i am a truly a female.it would be more real if a i am a male.huhu
anyway, i had fun while doing it.
i believe that i had done my best for it.
dialogue
me and my partner, aini had come up with a brilliant idea for our dialogue which was about the argument of the laws. basically it was about these two makciks, whom their son and daughter are married to eachother. unfortunately, the in laws never disagree with one another and in fact they are trying hard to tell eachother false stories about their children.
towards the end, they finally made up.
the interesting part was, we actually all dressed up like makciks! and we totally looked cool with all the heavy jewelleries(thanks jumi!) and the nyonya kebaya. during the practice for our dialogue, we laughed all the way as tour dialogues were actually hillarious!hehe
me and aini added on some dialects which are the kelantanese and the nogori dialect. words such as 'kodokut', 'gilo' and such did help us in acting out our dialogue successfully.
overall, we had fun. i would like to thank my partner, aini for the cooperation, the classmates for the support and of course mdm ju for letting these all possible.
chiao¬
In week 8, my group, and me Se7en Wanders had performed a tribal dance. We named our tribe as Kupuluhutukmu. For this minor performance, we had put so many efforts in order to make it perfect and good. The story starts with the last tribe on earth, named Kupuluhutukmu. They are facing the extinction of the male generation due to a virus that only attack male population, and the human production has become slower. Now with only one man to depend on in this tribe, the female has become very dependable to the man. The man is the source of their livestock as he hunt for the whole tribe everyday. One day, the man falls sick. Leaving the women with no option but to try their best to heal him by performing a ritual dance conducted by a witch in this tribe, they do not loose hope. The man finally healed and the tribe lives happily ever after. I think, this performance is quite challenging because we have to create our own costumes, language and so many materials. However, it was a worthy experience and we can use all of materials again in our next upcoming major performance.
Finally, it is the turn of having tribal dance for this week. One word for it, it was quite a hectic week for all of us especially when it comes to preparing for the props. So many hefty works needed to be done particularly for the mask itself. It took us few dreading days just to make and decorate the mask. Not to mention, the stuff we need to buy as well as other materials used. Using those are still acceptable, however, having to cut trees and leafs make me feel pitiful for the nature and unworthy just for the sake of that minor performance. After all, we are only using it for like around 10-15 minutes and off it goes to the trash bin. Guess this is one of the sacrifices one has to make in order to get the best out for our performance. This time around, yet we still could not find enough time to practice as other activities are catching up as well. Therefore, some of the steps for our dance were forgotten. To make matters worse is that the hole I made for my eyes were rather small. Hence, it blocks some of my sight and I could not see clearly what my other members were dancing. I think the holes for our mouth are not big enough as well which causes our voice projections to be weak. Overall, I believe tribal dance are created to bring out the wilderness and creative side of us. For that reason, I think it somehow help us to be more than what we think we are. You will never know what you can do if you don’t give it a try. After all, we even turned ourselves as aborigines and do tribal dance. What other things that can be more embarrassing that?
Chong Fei Ying 139483
4th minor performance - Monologue (31/7/2008)
This is a new experience for me again. Monologue is harder and more challenging to me because this is a performance without my group member around me.
I have chosen to act as an inexperience mother based on a true story. My mum said after she gave birth to me, she does not know how to take care of me, she don’t know what to do when I am crying, she feel helpless when I am sick, but when she gave birth to my younger brother and sister, she has more experience, she know how to handle them. I think this is a good topic to work on, and it is easier for me to think of the story line because my mum was a babysitter since I study in secondary school. My house has lots of babies and young children growing up with me.
I am glad that I have many classmate that support me, although I didn’t put in any background sound, they help me to produce them spontaneously. It is funny that some part of the monologue did not go as what I plan because of the audiences’ respond. For example, I do not plan to hug the baby on the chair when she cry, but when my audience keep producing the crying sound, I have to hug the baby so that she stop crying. Now I notice that I’m not performing alone on the stage as the audiences still play a great part in my performance.
This experience is helpful to me because it teaches me to pay attention to my audience when I talk. This is very important to a teacher because if I ignore the need of my students, they will never get input from me.
Chong Fei Ying 139483
5th minor performance - Dialogue (6/8/2008)
This is the 5th minor performance- dialogue. On one hand, I feel not so anxious because I am not the only one who perform, at least someone with me and could help me when I forget something. But on the other hand, I have another kind of pressure, I scare once I forget, my partner does not know what to do and this will mess up the whole performance. So, this performance requires our spontaneous response when your partner goes wrong.
My partner is Min Hui, we plan for something special which is acting as animals. I was thinking about those animals in the children programs. We try to make a cute sound of a hen and dog. I also prepare props, the eggs- Handsome, Pretty, Beautiful and Leng Zai. We practice few times before the performance started. When I review the video clip of our performance, I noticed that our voice projection is not clear because we speak in very high pitch, and as what Pn. Ju said, we did not have the movement of hen and dog.
I like the performance of Mohana’s group and Eunice’s group; I feel that they really get into the characters. Overall, I enjoyed the performance of our class.
Dialogue
I work with Inzah for this performance. We choose a bullying case in high school although at first we want to create a dialogue about a teenager’s being pregnant. None of us want to be the pregnant teenager so we have to change our topic. Bullying case is more familiar to me as I already experienced the same situation in my secondary school. Actually, I am the arrogant senior and Inzah is the junior but I can not pretend that I am a bitchy girl so we switched our parts. During the performance, I forgot to face the audience while answering a call from my mother. Fuh…from now on, I need to remember that I actually perform this in front of my audience and I need to face them while performing.
Rhythm and movement
Actually, I am still shocked to know that we need to dance for this task. On our meeting, Azliza came out with an idea about Latin dance. I knew that she loves Latin songs. She even already prepared with the songs. Most of my group members seem to not really prepare for this performance, so we just accept her idea. From the day onwards, we began to practice the steps for this dance. I think the hardest part of all this is the fact none of us is dancer so it is really difficult for us to move our hands and bodies with the music. The last song, ‘La Isla Bonita’ is quite challenging for us but we managed to come out with simple steps for it. We made a big mistake for this performance since we kept changing our steps while practicing. We also made another mistake by putting a lot of steps which is beyond our capabilities. As a result, most of my group members including me forgot the steps while performing.
Tribal Dance
For this tribal dance, my group practice a lot, we practice during day and night. We meet for the first time to discuss about things to use in our performance. Then, we surf the internet to search for ideas about our dance. Everything went smoothly for this performance as everyone gave their full commitment for this task. I personally think it is one of our best performances ever as a group. Azliza and Emy contribute a lot in searching for the materials used in our performance. We use marbles, bottles, leaves, glitter and much more for this performance. I also think that we spent a large amount of money for this performance since we need to buy all those things. I am really glad that it was already over and I have one more performance to do.
Siti Zahirah Nor bt Yusoff
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Dialouge
Dialogue is a conversation between two or more person. In this task my partner is Nur Shazni and we choose a story by Jane Martin ‘Beauty’. Dialogue will help us in our voice projection. In this pair work cooperation between the two people is really important, if one of us forgot the script the partner need to cover up or move on. This activity is very enjoyable and we seen many story performed by our classmate.
Siti Zahirah Nor bt Yusoff
137766
Tribal Dance
Tribal Dance what can I say, it is first and foremost a dance, where we need to tell as story as we dance no dialogue required. In this group activity a lot of hard work, energy, time and effort needed to complete it. Different from rhythm and movement is more towards to a dance with less discipline; it is uncivilized dance that we try to convey. We have to crack our mind to come out with the storyline, and finally we decided to make a story based on hunger village longing for a warrior or warriors.
Chong Fei Ying 139483
6th minor performance –
Tribal Dance (27/8/2008)
This few days are difficult for me because I feel very sick, my body very pain and my throat felt burning. I have to take Panadol before going to each practice sessions and couldn’t sleep well at night. I’m glad that everything is over.
Making the mask is one of the most challenging tasks before practicing the performance. The balloon will burst half way, and sometime it will get smaller and smaller if u didn’t buy the good quality one. The drawing and colours of the mask also difficult because most of our group members are Chinese and our mask look like China ‘Bian Lian’, is a kind of ancient Chinese dramatic art, called ‘Face-Changing’. I modified my mask so that it looks more like tribal mask.
We spend a lot of time on our props; it is not an easy job. Some of us injured and allergy to the material we are using. Like what we also said in our group, “We sacrifice for art”, haha…
On the stage performance, our voice projection is low. I think the biggest problem is from the mask, the hole we make for our mouth is not big enough, and it blocks our voice projection. I enjoyed all the performances of our class. The person who impresses me the most in this performance is Linda, she is so cute that day, and she entertains us with her cute voice and action. Well done, girl!
Sculptor and sculpture
We decided to use two types of materials which are clay and wood. During meeting, Inzah gives an idea about war. We then brainstorm about the message of war we are trying to convey in our performance. One of us tells about a slogan, see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil. All of us agreed with this slogan and we decided that three of us will represent each of the action. We divided into 2 rows, 3 in each row. The front row is clay and the back row is wood. The front row will shows the situation faced by the victims of war while the people at the back will act like the slogan. Our performance is great in terms of the idea but I think we need more practice before we perform it in front of the audience. I learnt valuable lesson from this task which is we need to concentrate in our performance.
tribal dance
there's nothing more that i can say on this minor performance. it was totally happening and superb! i would like to say that my classmates have done an excellent job in making the tribal dance performance a great one. i was mesmerised by the fact that actually the tribal dance performance was like a major performance already.
basically the whole idea of this tribal dance performance is to come up with our very own tribe, songs, costumes, and most importantly the mask. the truth, the hours, energy and cash that we had spent worth every single of them by performing the best
the tribe was all-women tribe. in order to continue the lineage, one off us must find a man, sleep with him and after delivering a child, the man will be killed. scary isn't it? well, that's all about it.
i would like to say well done to my classmates for performing the best performances. i really enjoyed it!
tribal dance last week was our most unique minor performance. personally i think this performance really helped boost our confidence as our expressions were all hidden behind a mask. this performance was not just some hip shaking, gibberish blabbering type of tribe dance as the name suggest, there was more to it. we had to practically live and think like tribal people. as much as i loved my mask and my jewelry and my pride stick, the amount of time and work put for it nearly killed me. it made me appreciate my present life with television and some peace. imagine living with tigers and with leaves to cover your privates? so back to the purpose of this performance, it was meant for us to let ourselves out. i could just see everyone enjoying themselves. personally i am extremely glad i had a mask to cover all my mistakes and weird expressions. i am still working on my voice projection, it just doesn't seem to be working. i like my group's storyline though, we tried mixing some comedy into it but i have to admit that most of the jokes was because i forgot my part. i really had to control my prop, and make full use of the stage. i guess i did learn a little bit from my earlier performances. coming up with a rhythm from instruments created from natural sources was not at all easy, especially for me. i can hardly keep up a rhythm let alone sing. fortunately i forgot my solo performance, saved myself from more embarrassment. i can't believe that i forgot it though because we practiced many times. luckily my group members realized and saved me. on the whole, this performance was the most tedious and tiring one but i have to admit it was a stress reliever. i really enjoyed making my mask;i really love my mask and most of all i really love our language. the one thing i have learned from this performance is i really need a mask for my major performance to shield myself from committing the biggest joke of the century.
Nur Shazni Samsuri 136116
Minor Performance 1: Sound Story
During the first week of lecture, we were assigned to do our first minor performance; sound story which was constructed a story using only sounds from our mouths. I do not know what to expect because this was my first time doing this kind of activity. One of my group members suggested that we make a story about war. We then divided among us the sounds that we are going to produce during our performance. A day before the performance, we found out that there were other groups who were also doing the same theme of war. After further discussions among ourselves, we decided to change our story. Instead of war, we decided to do a story about a person who was lost in a jungle and he was attacked by a tiger but unfortunately, it was all a dream! We started off our story with the sound of snoring and ended it up with the vibration of mobile phone. We were the last group to perform. It was ‘scary’ to hear all the other groups performed their story. Some of them were really good and I should say that it was a very exciting experience that I would not want to miss. Doing the sound story made me realized that it is not easy to project your voice. You have to breathe right in order to be able to project your voice. Besides that, this activity shows that you can construct a story using only sounds and you can still let other people understand it. This activity contributes greatly in our progress towards the major performance. Voice projection is indeed very important to make sure the audience can hear what you say on stage.
Nur Shazni Samsuri 136116
Minor Performance 2: Rhythm & Movement
Dancing? I sighed a few times when we were informed to do this performance. The second minor performance required us to dance along with the music. I never dance in front of public, let alone dancing in synchronization with all the members in the group. We decided to choose dance steps that are easy and do not have much aggressive movements to make. Our dance routine started off with a march, followed by robotic dance, ago-go, Hindi dance and finally we ended up the dance with a pinch of dangdut. The process towards the dance performance was really tiring. We have been practicing for three straight days; before and after classes. We even did not get enough sleep, but all the hard work paid off. I am satisfied with our performance even though through out the performance we are quite distracted by the crowd cheering. Personally, the dance performance taught me not to be terrified to face the audience and I should focus on my performance amidst all the distraction around me. All these lessons help me a lot in preparing for the major performance.
Nur Shazni Samsuri 136116
Minor Performance 3: Sculptor & Sculpture
On the third week of lecture, we were assigned to be either clay, wood, stone or any other natural element that can be sculptured. If we were clays, we have to act like one. We have to act as if our body can be turned and twisted just like clay. Each group is required to do sculptures with a concept that can be guessed by other classmates. One person from the group will be the sculptor and the rest of the group will be the sculptures. I should say that this is the most interesting activity so far because we get to be sculptures. That was the fun part, but the difficult part was deciding on the concept of the sculptures. After further discussion, we ended up with the concept of beach volleyball. It seems quite easy at first to be the sculpture. You only have to stand still for a period of time and if you are able to remain in that position until all the other sculptures are completed, then you will make a very good sculpture. During the practices, I did not feel really tired because we were focusing more on the design of the sculptures but on the day of the performance itself, my whole body was aching because I have to bend my knee and stretch my arm for a long time. I’ve realized that concentration is vital during any performance. I really need to focus on my role and contain myself from getting distracted by my surrounding. This performance does help me in my preparation before the major performance.
Nur Shazni Samsuri 136116
Minor Performance 4: Monologue
The fourth minor performance is monologue. This was the time I got to act by myself. I got to express my feelings about anything that happened around me. My monologue is entitled “I Have Come to You” and it is a monologue about love and friendship. I have come up with the script two days before the performance but I do not really follow the script as I made improvisation every time I practice the monologue. The toughest part was the performance itself. I do not really like to speak in front of an audience as I can get nervous easily. I am afraid that I will go blank when it is my time to perform. I was the 13th person to perform and when I looked at my classmates’ performances, I felt afraid even more. When the moment of truth came, I did not remember my lines and I took about five minutes to calm down. I pulled all the courage that I have left and performed my monologue. It was quite bad. I have to work on my voice projection as my voice was too soft, I need to show a much more convincing facial expressions and I have to put more ‘soul’ into the performance. It seems that there are still a lot of things I need to improve on before the major performance.
Nur Shazni Samsuri 136116
Minor Performance 5: Dialogue
The fifth minor performance was dialogue. In this performance, we have to do it in pairs and my partner for the dialogue is Siti Zahirah Nor Yusoff. The criterion for the dialogue is it should have a conflict. Both of us decided to make an adaptation from a play entitled “Beauty” by Jane Martin. It is a story about jealousy and the desire to be beautiful. We did not have a very much time to prepare for the dialogue and I felt relieved when the performance ended. It was not as good as we hoped it would be but I have to admit that I felt quite proud of myself because I do not face the same frightening experience that I went through when I performed my monologue. The feedbacks that we got were almost the same as any other groups. We need to work on our voice projection as the audience can barely hear the words that we uttered. Right now, I feel really worried when thinking about the major performance. There is not much improvement achieved since the first minor performance. I really hope that I could improve myself.
Nur Shazni Samsuri 136116
Minor Performance 6: Tribal Dance
The sixth minor performance was tribal dance. This was the performance that took up quite a long time to prepare because there were many props to make. The first preparation was making the for each group members. The rationale for wearing the masks when performing was to make us less terrified to perform. Tribal dance required aggressive physical movements and wearing the mask will somehow lower down our anxiety level thus increasing our self confidence to perform. Furthermore, the instructor would like to see whether the design of the masks enabled us to project our voices properly so that the audience can hear us clearly and they will not hear muffled sounds. It took us almost a week to prepare the props for this minor performance and we only came up with the movements for the dance a day before the performance. Our story is about celebrating the return of two brave hunters. It was really an exciting experience because we invented our own language and costumes. I enjoyed watching the other groups’ performance. All of them put outstanding and creative performances. It was unlucky for us though because we have to shout on the top of our lungs in order to make the audience heard us because it was raining heavily during our performance. The feedback that we got was the musical instruments should be played whole-heartedly and the movements are too synchronized. All in all, it was a memorable experience.
Yip Hoe-Yi
138992
Minor Performance 6: Tribal Dance
Tribal dance performance is unique. We have to create our own language, clothing, mask, instruments and movements to portray our tribe identity. I enjoyed throughout the process of forming the tribal dance activities especially making and drawing the mask because I like to draw. For my group, Rose Thorn, each of us have our own unique and identity that is why our masks’ pattern is different. Obviously, Deepa is the chief tribe; Yuen Thien is the tiger while others are the Cocaian tribes where the language used is Coca-Cola. The first thought of using Coca-Cola is like the carbonated drink but it is better than not having a language.
The process of making the masks and finding instruments requires patience, creativity and innovation. We used coconut shells, bamboo sticks, coconut leaves, silk cloth and other wind instrument for performance. Along the process, we modify the materials by adding more coconut leaves and pasting black sugar paper to orange cloth to make tiger skin. We learned to use our creativity, spend time with each other, cooperating and helping one another very much during the preparation.
From my observation, all tribal masks from other groups are very unique and authentic. They are very creatively and beautifully decorated. Each of them portrays their identity as well such as Hazelynn used a brown black mask to portray “bomoh” , Linda used red mask to portray she is a girl and Priya used a mask with two long black ears to portray a powerful male figure. For me, the most unique storyline is Khairil’s group because it has a combination of modern and tribal society. Their masks are also beautifully made. As for Jolyne’s group, I heard them say “hot” as “sioh” which is Hokkien dialect. Wow, so creative! Dialect can also be added in as well.
Overall, I enjoyed the whole tribal performance very much including my own group and watching other group’s performance.
Tribal dance
Finally we all get back the chance to do the minor performance in our own theater group. I’m glad that Cassiopeia finally unite after been separated for the individual or duo minor performances. This time around, we are required to do a tribal dance. We have to create our own dance step according to how tribal dance should be. Not to forget, we must have storyline so that the dance matched with the story. I’m glad that my group members are very good in thinking of what to do for the tribal dance. So the storyline is set quickly without wasting a lot of time thinking of what we want to do. However, the difficult part is to create the tribal language. It is not an easy process because tribal language as far as I know doesn’t really have the language. Most of the time, it seems like they mumbling all the time or the only option is by using the body language. That would be easily understood among the tribes. In the end, we basically mix Korean language that we get from Korean drama with backward English. During the tribal dance, I could hear a lot of different language been created by the other groups. I cannot deny that the creativity is there even though none of understand what their saying. I almost forgot about our masks. Everyone needs to do their own mask to symbolize our own tribe. I never do a mask before but we all work together to get our mask done. Not like the other group we used the element of natures like flowers, dry leaves, peanuts etc to decorate our mask. It was fun. In my opinion, this kind of activity is able to examine one’s own potential in giving creative ideas. Students will be able to share own thought with the rest and combine it to make a good performance.
Monologue
On the day that I am going to do my monologue, I was quite nervous because this time around I should do by my own and will be evaluate by Pn. Juridah. By hook or by crook, I should do my best to tackle my nervous and on my performance. So, I choose a title on ‘Hurting, Devastating, Wounded…” which I acted as a woman who was abused by her husband. I choose to do the monologue about abusive woman because this time around there is lots of women who had been abused by their husbands. I would like to highlight the issue so that our community will not forget that there are still women need our help.
To do the monologue, one should act as a person who was being abuse, the attire and the feelings to make the monologue and the situation authentic. What have I done is, I make myself in a mess with bruises all over my face( which of cause I make up myself to do the bruises) and at the same time I express myself as the person who was being abused in my monologue. It was quite interesting and I enjoy my monologue. Pn. Juridah asks me to do better next time and she comment about my t-shirt that I wore on that day. I should wear torn t-shirt to make it more real. In a nutshell, I take the comments in a positive ways and try to improve myself next time around. The performance that I did, I was satisfied but there is lots of progress to be done.
Cruelty, money and arrogance are equal to step-mothers where everyone believes even in those days. Not every step-mother behaves like that but some of them do. In this material world where everything is not free, of course money is everything to make the living. To make life easier some women take the short cut ways in order to satisfy themselves. They will marry the guy who was married or rich for example to pay for their own expenses. And at the same time they are arrogance towards their husband’s family. Sometimes, the guy that those types of women married got their own children and automatically that woman will be step-mother. Most of the cases the children will be abused by their step-mother because the step-mother did not have the intention to take care of the children.
From what we have heard and see, we choose the dialogue between step-mother and step-daughter. Ewani acted as step-daughter and I, myself acted as step-mother. It was quite awkward at first to be a step-mother because I don’t have any experience. But I mingled my guts to act as step-mother. It was quite tough but nevertheless, at least I have tried once to become once. The performance is average because both of us lack of practice and feelings to express ourselves during the day. I hope that my group members and I will give our best during our major performance. =)
Tribal dance
Hohaka… That was a name for our group in tribal dance. It is unique to create our own language, clothing, mask, instruments and movements to convey our tribe identity. Our language is based on the group name Hohaka. And each member will pronounce hohaka and haka repeatedly. It doesn’t mean anything but the intention is just we have to create new words to portray our tribe. It was interesting. We are having fun to create a tribe that never exists. Clothing, it was a fun part that I like the most. I mean, yeah, creating clothes from leaves and straw to make flowers and then to create bangles was interesting too. Felt that I was really in a tribe. Next thing that I enjoy is doing a mask. Everyone in my group is cooperative in lending hand to help each other in order to do the mask. It was wonderful to see each of our group members helping each other. They were supportive.
Instruments that we used to make sound are basically drink tins, bottles and cooking pot. The way that we produced the sound is not really good because the audience cannot hear it clearly. Our voice projection was also not really good. But at least we have tried…=) it was disappointing but we can accept it. The movement is about men try to win a woman’s heart and the best is chosen as her life’s partner. As Pn. Juridah comment on our movement, she said that the movement is not really clear and audience try to predict what was going on. So here we as the one who acted in the performance felt a little bit gloomy and will give our best shot on the other performance. Chayo!!!
Tribal dance
Coca..cocacocacocacoca…aaaa…This is our tribal language that we act in our tribal dance. We are from Coca Island and we only know how to talk coca language and sing coca song. There are many songs in our island. Each song represents our identity for example song of peace. We make musical instruments and we play around with our instruments when we felt peace and harmony in our island. Then, a tiger comes into our island and eat up our chicken and cow. This makes our headman very angry, and he thinks of hunt the tiger. Then with the entire struggle, we manage to catch the tiger and eat it. Thanks for Pn Ju to let us have a chance to do this performance. I really enjoy this performance a lots. We included everything that we learned in this stage. We put in monologue, movement, scripture, dialogue, and we have a chance to do a mask. Although I hate to do this types of things, ( I think is dirty) but, I did make my effort to finish up. Unfortunately…. But I did make a nice tribal mask.. hurray…. To all my course members, you guys did a great job as well… good luck for next performance…
Blog tribal dance
Tribal dance is a more challenging activity compared to the previous performance because we had to make use of nature things to do props, costume, jewelry and music instruments. First of all, we had to make mask on ourselves. This is a new experience for me. It really kills my patients because I had to put the newspaper layer by layer carefully. Then, we have to choreograph the dance. It takes quite a lot of time to prepare and thanks of my group members who had ‘risk their life’ to collect the mambo sticks, leaves and coconut shells. Other than that, I was very enjoyed in both my own performance and watching the others groups performance. I was amazed of it!
Dialogue
For this task we are assigned to do a dialogue. My partner for this assignment is Hani. I thought two way communication is not a big problem as we use it in our daily life but to have a conflict in that particular conversation seems hard. We divide work; I work on the extract and Hani work on the props for this assignment. We were told by Faezah that we will present our dialogue on Thursday, at DKAP foyer. It’s quite a challenging task to create a 10 minutes dialogue with a conflict inside it.
Nevertheless, we manage to find a dialogue about an unprofessional beautician and a customer. It’s hard for us to find a time to rehearse on this performance, so I decided to prepare a script on a and pasted it on a magazine so that we can refer to it in case we forgot the script. Lack of practice can be seen through our gestures and voice projection. We did refer to the script a lot and it seem obvious to the audience.I totally forgot the script and keep looking at the magazine where the script was provided. We loose the audience concentration as they cannot see the flow of the story. Hani voice shriek a bit and my voice is the worst (My voice was not clear enough and it does shriek a lot during the presentation). The script provided does not help us that much, instead it became a major reason why we did not do well in our dialogue presentation.
Tribal dance
For this assignment, the se7en wanders reunite. It brings all the fun that we use to have working as a group weeks before to me. All of the things that we learn before are combined in this task; sound story, monologue, movement, sculpture, and also dialogue.I am a bit worried on this task at first because we need to work not only on the masks, but also in preparing our own costumes, produce our own sounds/music and also choreograph the dance but finally things turn out well.
Our group presented the idea of sickness. A virus only attacked male population in our tribe has make all the men in our tribe died, leaving the women with only one man to depend on. Each time the man brings the food home they will dance happily together.Later, this man are attacked by the 'virus'and he never returned.The women search for him and the witch hum the longing song.There are still hopes when the witch found out that he is in comma. The tribe performed the tribal dance, the man was healed. They performed 'a happy dance'. Finally, they later live happily ever after together.
'Long Live Kupuluhutukmu tribe!'
p/s : A special thanks for Eunice mom for finding us the sacks for our tribe clothing.
NORBAHIRA BT MOHAMAD NOR
139790
K 21
Tribal dance?? I don't know that we are supposed to learn that in theatre class. My first impression of theatre class is theare will be acting training, how to control voice projection, maybe a few minor performances; but I didn't expect to do a tribal dance in theatre.
Nevertheless, what life is without some suprises being thrown in every now and then. So, when Puan Juridah said that we had to make (make, pardon you, not just design), I was quite startled as I knew nothing of how to make a mask.
The process of making the mask was very taxing. We had to shred pieces after pieces of newspaper, and then we had to soak the shreds into a pail of water. Next, we just be prepared to have our faces covered in wet, carbon-fill newspaper in order to make the base of the mask. After that, came the most boring part of it all; waiting for the mask to dry up.
Aside from the mask, we had to create costumes and props needed for the tribal dance. As for costumes, we did not have mush problem as we just used white cloth (some of us used "kain telekung", while others used white bedsheets). To show the identity of our tribe, we used beads and bells to decorate the costumes.
Coming up with the props came easy after we had finished preparing for all the essentials needed for the tribal dance. For the musical instrument, we had a pail and a couple of cans filled with beans.
My expectations was proven wrong (of course) after we had presented the tribal dance. I thought i would make myself silly, dancing, jumping, and shouting away like some uncivilized people. However, in reality, I felt nothing at all; no shame as I was wearing a mask and no anxiety as we all had fun that night. All in all, the preparations for tribal dance took much out of us but the performance was a reward in itself.
We just finished our tribal dance performance. Seriously, I think every group had presented very interesting performances. We managed to come out with various tribes of our own, alongside with the costumes. I have not much to talk about the performance, but very much on the preparation itself. The tribal dance was indeed a 'big' performance for me. I was in charge of preparing the props and accessories for my group members. During the preparation of the play, it really taught me a lesson on not to too dependent on others. Initially, I thought that we had to give full trust to our group members. However, when it came to the day of performance, I was really disappointed with certain people who did not even bother to give any commitment to the performance. In my opinion, we did this performance for experience rather than the marks. It is the sense of being in one team. However, I was really let down by the people who ignored all our efforts and tried to mess up the performance. Luckily, I felt very fortunate that there are still good members in my group who helped me through this performance. In sum, I really appreciate this experience and ‘lesson’.
Jasmit Kaur
139774
k21
Tribal dance is one of the performances that we are supposed to do as our minor performance this sem…. Last week on Wednesday night we did our tribal dance from 8pm till 10.30pm. I really enjoyed the activity….
When we were informed bout the task, we did not delay in preparing our dance steps, costumes and even the dialogue script were done eventhough it’s in an alien language. We thought of doing the script son no one will end up using the same word over and over again. Each of the created words that we used had meaning.
To me, the most fun thing was creating the costume and the mask….we got the rice sacks from the Indian grocery store and spray with brown and orange…..it was real cool
As for the mask we spend almost the whole day spraying it and painting the design as well as putting the colourfull feathers on it…
Because we were all wearing mask and this helped many of us especially me when we had to make loud weird sounds. I did not feel that nervous and shy in carrying out my character as the Ritual Lady because of the mask. I think this activity was real fun and enjoying…..I LOVEED IT eventhough it was quite hactic…..
Lim Whei Ching
139777
K21
The tribal dance activity is by far the most interesting activity for me. It provides me with an opportunity to show my abilities in making and decorating masks as well as in performing a ritual that is meant to be performed during the uncivilized era. I am comfortable in my character although I play a male role. I tried to change my voice by making it sounds more harsh and male-like. Although it takes a lot of time and effort preparing and practicing for this activity, in the end, it is all worth while as we have performed well and it is a bonus when we receive praises from Pn Juridah and friends. They are able to understand the story line of our short play even though we are communicating in our own tribe language. Besides, through this activity I also learn about the value of team work. I believe that we need help from one another in order to make a performance a success. I am happy with the way my group is progressing. We have divided our work well by having some preparing the script, some sewing the costumes and some making as well as decorating the masks. We are able to work in harmony as a group. During the performance night, we are actually able to attract the attention of the international students with our masks, costumes as well as the whole presentation. They are so fascinated to see us and request to have a picture with us. It is indeed a great experiences.
encik din zainal
139781
k21 (tesl-twinning)
Saripan(greeting). This is an example of my ‘created’ language for my ‘Tribal’ performance. What can I say is, this kind of activity that been assigned to us is, I think, the best activity that I done ever since my study as a TESL student. Tribal dance actually a simple story about a tribe, a new created tribe by our group, which I supposed to include some ‘ritual’ dance in this activity. To tell the truth, its not easy to brainstorm the idea on how the play will be presented. We have decided to create a tribe that lives in forest and within the tribe, we separate into two subordinate tribes which is ‘Sakhdeem’ and ‘Ongkhas’. The story is about the ritual of transmitting ‘Sakhdeem’ to ‘Ongkhas’ when one person from ‘Sakhdeem’ eventually fell in love with Ongkhas’ girl and after all the problems occur, they managed to get married.
Talk about the preparation of the performances, we have to settle down many things like the masks, the costumes, continued with the practicing of the story and the steps for the dance in one struggle week! During this period, problems did occur, not just the problems in completing the props, but there are also problems among our group members. But, after all the patience and sacrifices, we’ve been able to perform well in our performances which satisfied all the group members. So what can I say is, by doing this activity, it is not just the matter of how well you perform the task, it also deals with some values that should have in every human being. After all, I realize that teamwork is very important as well as commitment to group where without all these values everything will not going as we want to be. Even a simple misbehave like the matter of punctuality among members (of course in me) will not just ruin the moods of other members, but it also ruin the progressing of the task.
About the response for the activity, I strongly believed that this tribal dance is extremely help the way we are trying to throw the messages to the audiences without using the language that they are understand. This means, creativity combines with a good performance with the feelings and attitude towards the characters are the main factors that need to be focused. It is the matter of how strong the chemistry within the actors in producing a lively performance that acceptable to the audiences. On the other side, this activity also developed the courage and confidences among the actor in performing the unusual steps of the dances as well as the storylines.
In the whole, I would like to say that I am very proud of my team members with their higher spirit and enthusiasm, all things ended awfully excellent and I would like to say “CHIMANAS” (congratulation) to the members of ‘Under The Tree’ and Im really proud of you guys!!! “Bek sopa tumba” (I love you guys)
Amanda Christine Wong 139765 K21
TRIBAL DANCE
First of all, I have to say...this minor performance is INSANE! And I thought we weren't able to do it 'coz there were so much things to do in a week. But after we organised ourselves, things were getting in our hands. Our masks were a mess initially, but it looks alright after much pimping. Our costumes are psychedelic! We used gunny sacks. I can never forget the look on the Indian kedai runcit pak cik's face when we told him we wanted to buy sacks (and to bargain for it!). And our music and dance, all were done the night before. The madness. So, after much blood, sweat and tears (not to mention money spent), we did manage to pull it off. And it was all worth it as you announced us as the best group. THIS will surely go on Youtube! Love you Pn Ju!!!
For this minor performance, we have to create our own tribe and identity, mask, and dancing for certain ceremony in our tribe. It was challenging at first because we have to come up with our own costume, instruments and mask to represent our tribe. All the sources are from natural sources or things around us. This task requires us to be creative and imaginative. For my group, our tribe’s name is “Nyam Nyam Tribe”. This is all women tribe. In order to continue the lineage, one off us must find a man, sleep with him to get pregnant. After a child is born, the man must be killed. I enjoyed my group and other group performances too. This activity is interesting because students can create their own unique identity and be that unique character. It also enhance creativities and innovative skills of the students in order to design the costume, mask, dancing steps and instruments for their own tribe.
Dialogue
my next task for this course was dialogue.i decided to perform my dialogue with farihan. i have done a few asiignments with her before, and i had no problems working with her. hmm, at first we really didn't know what to perform. my mind was blank and so does her! finally, farihan came up with an idea of doing a story about a wife who found out that her beloved husband is still in love with his ex-girlfriend. well, i guess farihan had some misunderstanding with her boyfriend a day before that and she seems really upset.so i guess this catchy story is her imagination.i ask her if the story is real, and she says that part of it is true!well, i was shocked, of course!this girl is in a bad mental state. farihan came up with the story line and she creates her own script and mine as well. well, there were some changes that i would like to do to the script as i think it was too emotionally involved but thinking back again,maybe this is not a good time to split it out to her. thank God that she finally overcome her bad mental condition when things goes back normal with her boyfriend. then only we did some last minutes changes to the script and last minute rehearsal!finally, when we performed our dialogue, i guess it was well done, despite he fact that we drag the dialogue up to 7 minutes! the only think that both of us need to concentrate more on our next task is our voice projection.
Monologue
this is the first time that i had to perform a monologue. at first, i really didn't know what to do until a day before my turn to perform then only this idea came popping up in my head. well,i am the oldest in the class.the most famous question that will be ask to me is "when will you get married?". i kinda sick of that question. whats wrong in getting married late?i'm not that old ok.so, i decided to let the world, or maybe just the class to know that i'm not that old not to get married.so there it goes, telling the world how i feel. but overall, i was satisfied with my performance, even though i forgot my lines and forgot what i'm supposed to do but hey, it came from the bottom of my heart.
Kong Pui Looi 139776 K21
My group did the tribal dance last week. I guess it is my best performance in group so far. Maybe it was because I was behind the mask during the performance. I don’t even remember what I did during the performance night. My voice during the practice can hardly be heard. However, most said I did well during the performance. It was a relief and I am happy I can contribute something for my group. I really hope so cause I never can imagine myself acting and shouting that loud in front of people. Anyway, I really like my group costume very much. It is so nice, I love it. I guess everyone had put their best effort out because every groups performance are so nice! Claps for everyone.
Personal Response on Tribal Dance
Nor Sazuani Bt Mohd Satar(139789)
K21
Words to describe this Tribal Dance are chaotic, troublesome, tiring, hard, sickening. I felt like dying when I have to actually invent, create and coin my own language for that dance. It was death to me as I was never aver play with meaningless, worthless, all craps sort of a language. It was really not me. I love learning language especially English but not mumbling out uncertain blurry language. Thus, conversing and acting for the dance were killing me mercilessly. The masks making is another thing that gave me a headache. It is not about the process of making it but the time it takes to complete them. Then, I had to stay up late till wee hour just to create costumes out of banana leaves. What do you think of that?! I felt like I was so wrong and misplaced in this IT-centered era. Other that those, all of us have to sacrifice our rest and sleep just to have a story for us to act out as one tribe and create a ritual that involve dancing. The language, masks, costumes, story and dance had done a great job in cracking my head and breaking down my immune system against pressure. For almost one whole week, me and my friends enslaved ourselves for this tribal dance and it was so tiring. That is my unbearable challenge. I always fail to withstand soared body and mind due to heavy load of work within limited time.
When I said all these nasty things about this minor performance, I know that I am being very unfair to the others. Only this one troubles me compared to the other minor performances. Sometimes, think that perhaps, it is the real challenge for me. Luckily, I have made myself proud when the performing night arrived. I was able to converse in senseless language spontaneously and my acting was good. Even the dance was awesome and all of us were proud of what we had done. We were all out for tribal dance and we have done all this together as a group. Everyone has shares the burden together and thus, we were so happy that night. I was proud of them more than to myself. But the most important thing, I was damn relieved when it was over..
actually, i have discobered and learned that, it is not so bad afterall..tribal dance is a fun and exciting activity to do. no doubt that i have enjoyed myself during the rehearsal as well as the process of preparing all the things needed for the dance.perhaps it is true that everything has its own pros and cons.yes, it is a TROUBLE DANCE but it is FUN!i do love it!
Mohana@M.O.G.I
DIALOGUE
Dialogue is one of the minor performances that I have to face and this time we have to work in pair. As usual I and Priya is the partner for this task. We did our rehearsal in Priya’s room. Thanks to her roommate who is very helpful not chasing me out! He he he. Anyway, on the day, I think I have done well from my previous performance (monologue). Even tough, I felt that dialogue is much harder than monologue. This is because we have to make sure that we both talk in order and be prepared of what we going say as it will effect in our performance. It was funny thing for me to wear kain batik as I never wear kain batik in my life. It was alos very funny when my kain batik always slipped off, anyway it’s a kind of experience. After the performance, Priya told me that sometimes how I performing will affecting her performance. It is quite true as I see Priya, then my spirit to act well increases, thanks to her. On the day, many group perform well, I like Hazelynn group, actually it was very realistic. I also like Yuen Thien dialogue. it was nice especially Deepa’s dialogue. the way she acted is very natural. On the whole, the dialogue is very enjoyable and I learn a lot from my mistake and other’s mistake in this performance.
Unfulfilled…… is the right word that can visualize my feelings after our performance which is Tribal Dance. I know it sounds weird and confusing......but I have all the explanation. First and foremost, in order to perform the dance, there are two stages that should be completed. The first stage is making and designing masks and the other stage is planning and practicing the dance.
The first stage: Making and designing masks
The week before the dance performance, all of us attend a workshop in making masks conducted by our lecturer Pn. Juridah. In making the masks, we need old newspapers, balloons and 2 kilogram of tapioca flour. We use tapioca flour as the glue for our masks. First, we boil water and then we pour the water in a pail containing the flour. Then we stir the mixture until it is sticky. The old newspapers are cut into pieces and soak in water. When both items are ready, we start making mask for the boys in our group. This is because; it is easier for boys as they do not wear any scarf. The first 3 layers of the newspapers are put on their faces only by using water. The reason is because; it will be difficult at the end of the process, to peel off the mask form their face if we use the glue. Then only we can put on another 5 layers of the newspapers with the glue. We can add on as many layers as we wish because the thicker the mask, the better. For our group, we add on another 5 layers of plain A4 papers at the masks. This is for better effect of the masks.
After each of us has our own mask, we start to design it. We choose a monkey tribe and design our masks just like monkey. We use black spray paint for the background and yellow oil-paint for the effects.
The second stage: Planning and practicing the dance
Each of us already has our own mask!!! The process is so interesting and I have great times in making and designing my own mask. But the depressing part comes at the second stage. The reason is that our group did not have ample time to plan and practice the dance. Our lecturer has already given us enough time for the preparation, but it is fate that all of our group members are attached to their business during the weekend before the performance. All of us need to go back home and we cannot practice and plan for our costume. But…it eventually resolved! As we return to the hostel, we work hard to catch up with the things that we have missed. Some of us went to Bukit Expo to find banana leaves, and I went to Sri Serdang to buy bananas! after that we work together to sew and decorate our ‘monkey tribe’ costume.
All the process in making the performance successful is so meaningful to me. Everyone in my group put their best and very sporting. Instead of enjoying doing the performance, I am also glad of the bond between each member in the group as I believe that as long as we unite, anything can be done!
So….the unsatisfying part is that despite the fact that we are able to perform that night, deep in our heart, we wish that we have more time to prepare for the dance, so that we can enjoy the pleasure of successfully performing the task!..This of course as we believe that ample time are needed to produce more interesting performance.
Mohd Zaimin (139784) K21
One word that can be used to describe this activity is ‘fun’. I enjoyed myself in doing the performance and also in the process of making masks and costumes for the dance. There are things that really memorable concerning the dance. Personally, it was a great excitement in the process of making our own costumes. The very first thing that we did was making masks to resemble our tribe. It was unique and a great learning experience. Then, we used things such as coconut leaves to make the clothes. My group members did a brilliant job in making the dresses for our tribe. We also used bamboo as the instrument to produce music because basically the performance is about dance. One thing that we did to improvise the sound was that we filled the bamboo with small rocks. It gave us different sound that appropriate with the dance. Then, we did practise our dance several times to ensure we deliver a great performance. Although it was tiring, it was worth our effort.
In presenting the tribal dance, we had chosen a theme ‘baptism’. Basically, the dance was presented to welcome our new tribe member. However, before the dance, the newborn must be cleansed by the tribe shaman who conjured the Toad spirit. The shaman begins the ritual by cleansing the baby from evil spirit. At that moment, I was thrilled to play ‘the shaman’. With the help from the mask, I did not experience any embarrassment and it helps me to express myself through the character of the shaman. The tribal dance took place shortly after the cleansing ceremony. It was fun and energetic and we did our utmost to entertain Pn. Juridah and our friends.
Naim 139782 K21
Tribal Dance
Firstly, this is week 8 and the show has gone more hysterical with tribal dance. I never thought that this course requires us to dance and it really make me sick just to think of it. Basically, our story line is taken from the short story entitled ‘Looking for The Rain God’ which everybody should be familiar with. We named our tribe as Banana Leaf tribe. The reason is we used banana leaf for the costumes. Lots of them! Thanks to Firdaus who work really hard to find all those natural materials behind the Engineering Faculty. The whole process gets started with the making of mask. It was a real mess because I have to lie down on the floor while my group members put all the shredded carbon-filled newspaper on our face to get the right shape. And it took about 2hours per person..phew!. The hardest part of this performance is the language. Well, we managed to come out with some new words like Datu Apang(Head of the village) and Mahoi(shaman). It sounds funny yet fancy in a way..haha. Finally, I must say I was impressed by our group dance. With such limited instruments (2 empty 100plus bottle), we managed to produce the right sound and the dance was just fantastic. Everybody has given an all out performance on that night and Pn. Ju said that she enjoyed each performance really much. Finally, I feel very proud with my team especially the girls which had shown such determination and effort to make this performance a success. Salute!
NURUL ADHA BTE ABDUL MUTALIB
139750
K21
Behind That Mask!
I just love the way we did it - the 6th minor performance - tribal dance. This is the way we could hide our own expression behind the mask that we wore that night. The audience might not realise what actually we felt during the performance. Wearing the mask really help those who are having a "stage anxiety" like me.
Though there were few challenges that we had to face along the preparation, we still tried our best to perform. Making the audience laughed and enjoyed the performance were our objective of that night performance. Our group - The Almost Famous, has succesfully designed a unique creation of masks and a simple story line within the limited of time and materials. We were not demotivated by that. Our creativity developed upon the discussion. Luckily all members in the group had given a great cooperation from the beginning.
I impressed with the other groups' costume and their props. Their creativity in creating the tribes' culture were very fascinating. After all, we realised that there were few weaknesses regarding our performance that need to be improved before the final major performance. We hope that we manage to improve ourselves.
Finally, the most important lesson that I have learned during the tribal dance is good cooperation + positive mind + sacrifice = good performance.
Raslah bt Ramali (139752)
k21
There are lot of fun activities that i have learned in EDU 3202 class. i do enjoy all the activities that taught to us. our last minor performance is a tribal dance. we have to create a storyline, a language and the most interesting part that i enjoy a lot is making a mask. to make a mask is not so easy as i thought. at first we have to make the glue by ourselves, using the tapioca flour. then, wrapped up our faces layer by layer using the paper and the glue. honestly, the glue smell not really nice. but, i do experience it.. the best part is when we need to color it and make it as nice as we can. our group member, irwan, doing his best design the mask. thanks to him for the beautiful mask. preparing the tribal dance make me alert on how difficult to prepare a play. we have to sacrifice all our time to give a full commitment on our task. by the way i really enjoy doing all of this i cannot wait to get involve in real play later...
Shamimi Haniza Binti Dulhisham
139754
Tribal dance. A lot of things to do. Furthermore, the presentation is on Wednesday. I wonder whether we are able to finish everything. We have to prepare the drama, music, dance and language. Oh, I almost forget, the MASK! Doing the mask take a lot of time. For each, it takes nearly 3 hours. Luckily during that time we can discuss about other things. For this dance, I take care about the costume. I’m quite surprise when Amanda tell me that she already buy the sack for the costume and I straight away decide to do the costume because I think that I’m good at it and Alhamdulillah I can finish everything by Tuesday. I think that everyone in my group try the best to ensure that our tribal dance will be the best. No one escape from all meeting that we had, even though there are persons that come late but at least they are there. This activity really required a lot of time and effort. We try to combine all the activity that we are done previously in this activity and luckily we manage to include everything. During the presentation, Pn.Ju praises us, again! Alhmdullillah. I think that we deserve it. This activity really challenging and maybe can include in language class later.
A moment to remember...
We have completely done our 7th minor performance which is tribal dance. I expect it would be easier as it just a dance, But, it’s not only a dance. We have to make a mask and create our own language. It’s really challenging. First, we have to think our tribal belief and it has to be a new belief and different from other groups. After we get the idea we move to the harder part, to create a mask. It is made of pieces of newspaper and using tapioca flour. Later, to make it real, we have to paint it. We chose to use mural paint and also colour paste. To complete ‘our tribe’ we have to include our tribe’s language. Each of us has to use our own name as a language. Plus, our costumes have to be totally made of nature items such pandan leaves, flower, bamboo as the instrument and. During the performance, I found out that all groups successful present their tribal dance. However, most of the comment from our respective lecturer is about voice projection. This is because when we wear the mask, our voice is not very clear, so we have to speak louder. The comment really helps my group to improve as we are the last group. In my opinion, my group lack of practise therefore we are quite nervous and sometime forget the story line. Overall, tribal dance is most interesting performance and news for me. I learn a lot from this task and hope to apply it in the future.
Wadhihah Ahmad 139758 K21
Tribal Dance
Tribal Dance, is a new experience for me. through the performance i develop a new me that is not really conscious about myself and also my physical appearance. this is probably because all the while of preparing the performance, feeling of being shy is bit by bit disappear. but it doesn't meant that i don't have anymore shyness in me. it just meant that for the performance, i can develop the character that i need to act with confident. this performance really helps me built my self confidence and i hope this practise will prepare me for the major performance.
Nor Balkis Abdul Rahman
139787 K21
I love what we did for our tribal dance. We did something beyond expectation. Wearing mask and dance like crazy, really makes my day. Watching back our presentation after that night gives me these feeling that indescribable. The satisfaction after sacrifice so many thing- time, money and own feeling. It’s also give me a chance to get to know my team mate better as we spend time together more than I spend with other people in my life. The truth is I am glad that I am part of them as I am confident that we made the best team ever form for theater course. Going back to Tribal Dance, there’s room for us to make some improvisation. Give us more time and we can come out with something better.
SITI ASHADIAH BT. ABU HASSAN
139755
K 21
Tribal dance is our sixth minor performance. And I think that this is going to be very exciting because we are going to do something that we have never done before. We need to create our own language, own our costume and also our very own mask. Having the chance to do mask really make me excited. Me, myself got the chance to do three masks of my friends. I think this is a very nice job that I never thought I would be able to do it. From the strips of newspapers, the starch and also the A4 paper into a very thick and hard mask. Now that I know, it was not that difficult actually to do a mask. However, there is not just the mask that we need to do. There are many other things that need to be taken care of. This Tribal Dance is really time’s consuming. We have to sacrifice our sleeping time just to finish up doing the costumes and also the props. Thank god that we have already decided on our language by the day we got the task. This is really helpful though. Whatever it is, as we go along with the preparation, we found out that there were so short the time that we had before the night of the performance came. And it was just less than 24hours that I realized about that. At that time, we knew that, we had not had any practice yet and also our costume and props were not done yet. I also could not believe that we only had time to practice three hours before the performance took place. And all I thought was that, we were not going to make it that night. As compared to the other six groups, we were the only one that had only one-time-last minute-practice. But I knew that we have wonderful people in our group and I prayed very hard that we would be able to deliver our very best and stun everybody that night. The night of the performance had come finally and everybody could feel the nerves in their adrenaline. As for me, I felt that this is almost like the real moment or our final performance. The hectic situations backstage as well as the little time to prepare for everything are like the foreshadowing to the condition of the final performance. Being number fourth to perform, we were quite lucky because we were not the first to be evaluated. Somehow I feel that ten minutes was too long to be completed. But anyway, as we performed I could feel that the audiences were enjoyed with our performance and I got less pressured with it. When we came to the last part of our tribal dance, I thought that I wanted to scream because we had finally made it and there was nothing left to be worried about. One best sentence to describe it is that – we’ve nailed it!
TRIBAL DANCE FEVER
It is my very first time to dance like a mad man in front of the public.
But somehow, with the help of my blue mask I feel like all of my shame feeling blocked outside of the mask.
I think the mask is my factor that I can perform very well during our tribal dance that night.
I feel comfortable to express myself, dancing, yelling, and jumping with weird custom-made shirt which actually my towel.
During that tribal dance, I asked my friend Khalifah to take videos of my group presentation.
Although Izzatie still on medical leave and cannot perform, we manage to present that tribal dance successfully compared to our practice session which I thought not really appealing to Madam Ju.
After getting the comment from Madam, we all knows that we had done a very good job with the tribal dance, and I was very proud with the commitment of my group. Thank you.
The tribe has spoken! We just perform our latest minor performance the tribal dance on 27 August at DKAP foyer, and I am glad that was done. This minor performance really helps the guys in acting by emphasizing on their body movement. It is because one of the tasks we have to come out with our own language, though most of the tribes just mumbling one or two syllables over and over again. Thankfully, the costumes and the props are eyes catching even the foreign students stop by to watch our performances. By looking at their faces, they seem to like it. Maybe is the mask making people very curious on what going on. For me, the mask as one way we can overcome stage frights for people who are not used to stand in front of the crowd. In my case, it is not a problem since it is not my first time I performing in front of the audience but I just kept mumbling my language maybe because lack of preparations. Nevertheless, it is such a happy ending for me seeing that at last Madam Ju gave compliments to all the groups. Thanks God! I hope that it not the last of it, all the hard works and we encounter ups and downs in completing the performances. Thank you…
SAIPOL ABU BAKAR
139753 k21
we thought it was our last minor performance but we were absolutely wrong..haha..so for the second last performance we were asked to do tribal dance. a dance where we would never did if we are not in this course. it is a kind of 'orang asli' dance. but before that we are required to make our own mask. i can see that each mask have their own style and most of it are very attracive. actually this mask save us during the performance. we did the performance at BSB kolej canselor. so there were a lots of uninvited audience came to see our performance.however, we didnt care much about that because we really enjoyed the day with all the great performances!!!
kausar mohamed daud
139775
k21
Tribal dance
Tribal dance? Is this for serious? I never thought that actually I would be required to do such a thing in this course. Initially, I predicted that it would be a tedious job to carry out because it seems to be so strange and new for me. It demands a lot of preparation; costume, music, dance, and language. Honestly, I felt that all means one thing = how troublesome!
However, that feeling soon turned into a new sensation. This minor performance is not a dreadful job at all. I discovered joy as we started designing the masks. It is interesting actually to come out with creative ideas of how our tribal masks should like. Creating the storyline is also one interesting task because we used our imagination to visualize what a tribe should do and look alike, what festive to dance and what occasion to happen. Finally we chose the story of ‘Looking for a Rain God’, a short story that we did during our literature class back in secondary school. For the costume material, we looked for banana leaves as our nature component for our costumes. The rehearsal was only done a day before the performance night. We did not have enough time because we had other tasks to attend to. How nervous I was but I determined to give my best.
During the actual performance, I truly enjoyed it. In fact, compared to previous minor performances, this is what I enjoyed the most. Wearing those banana leaves, colourful masks, uttering gibberish language and doing ritual dance; they all gave me sweet moment and a sense of self satisfaction. At least, it enriches my experience. My other friends were also doing tantalizing performances. What I learnt is I should not have a negative assumption towards any task before I give it a try. What a show!
Wan Liza Arniaty bt Anwar
139759
K21
Tribal Dance... First thing that came into my mind was a group of silly-uncivilized people, jumping around like monkey having seizures and hauling like hell. Yup, this is what I imagine. However, things get worst when we were suppose to make a mask from scratch. The worst part was putting the wet torned old newspaper on our face. Ridiculously, we sat in my room (girls only) and we were having a 'luxurious spa' treatment. It's fun though-letting others massage your face, let the blood flow smoothly, and thus letting us to fall asleep as the 'treatment' continues...
We were thinking of a ritual or more likely a celebration after war-well, we win, of course. We agreed on the story line and proceed to the next step-creating music.
Using bamboos, which Shah had to search for it with his father, the music was created by Syuhada. The funny thing is that she hits her foot so many times when hitting the bamboo on floor-very focus! then after few trial-errors, we finally got the music. Yay!
After 2days, the masks is dry and we started to spray white color onto it-thinking it would be easier to decorate it-well, it's a very big mistake as even the day to perform came, the color doesn't seem to dried up! Anyhow, we still continue to decorate each mask with feathers and what not.
Then, the final part is rehearsal. Of course, nobody is perfect, but Amirul always pissed us off for coming late or never even come at all. We really pissed-nobody is perfect, right? 'sigh'
The rehearsal went pretty well-with laughs and small talk which takes up most of the rehearsal time. =_=;
Then, on the performing night. Thanks to Amirul 'finest touch', we were the first group to present! Nervous? Like hell! With prayers and hope, we dance, shout and talk nonsense for 10 minutes and we made it! I felt relief-very relief!
Overall, I like this activity (despite the fact that pimples emerge after the 'spa treatment'). It's fun and very communicative... perhaps. :)
nurul syuhada bt zainuddin
139751
K21
tribal dance is one of the minor performances complements to our major task in Theatre course, performing a play. it requires us to perform a short play i'll say as it consists a storyline, dances and language.here, i would like to summarize on the preparation for this task and its relevant to our major task. one thing that i would like to focus is the team work. this task absolutely needed a great team work to give the best performance. meaning that how good one is in acting the role but if there is no cooperation from the others in the group or he or she rarely give a good commitment on it, it means nothing. one of the examples is my group where the rehersals most of the time goes nowhere.some hardly attend to the rehersals, some lost their focus during the rehersals where small talk and gossips replaces the discussion on the performance and many other excuses. therefore, as a team, each has to give full commitment to make the task as a success. beside the team work, all the practices that we have done for other minor performances before play a major role in producing this performance. the group dance, dialogue, monologue and also sculptor and sculpture, each give us guides on how are we going to perform. comments from the lecturer on voice projection, intonation, body language and also empathy on the character before become the text book for our performance. there we can see the relevants on all the minor performances that we have done before towards the current task and how does it helps for the major task, play performance. from individual work such as monologue, we learn how to work together with others in dialogue and sculptor and sculpture for example. we learn to improve our own talent in acting and be on other people shoes, meaning that we try to tolerate with others in accomplishing the task together. in conclusion, tribal does help a lot individually and as a whole.
MOHD SHARAZI (139783)
K 21
Tribal dance to me is one of the best ways to prepare ourselves in acting especially in our drama. Although I am a little bit disappointed with our performance, oh well, nobody is perfect. To me, this tribal dance is by its nature the expression of emotions, feelings and opinions through the movement and manipulation of the body. Tribal dance very often finds itself in the form of telling a story or conveying emotion through choreography, set to a corresponding music score. Like in our group performance, we used bamboos in producing sound for our dance and we followed the rytheme of the sounds as we danced.
Dance is therefore a vital form of expression; a medium which can be used to convey a message effectively and powerfully. There is something about the beauty of seeing all the groups that performing that night that they moved with ease and grace through choreography that causes me to watch and take note.
Even though tribal dance is used as an ritual or ceremony and art form by which stories and tales could be remembered and passed down over the ages; dance has also developed into a show of the perfection of the human body and a display of the great feats that dedication and training can achieve. It is a celebration of life itself.
Hi Mdm Juridah!...I’ve expected that we have to do multifarious and wacky stuffs for this theater course, so I didn’t really find it hard to deal with all those stupefying activities. The unprepossessingly self-made masks, the hubbubs, the storyline, the unintelligible language, the limited planning time, rehearsals, heavy downpours and coconut leaves were some parts of significance that I dealt with throughout the tribal dance performance. Despite of the turbulence and tribulations, all of the groups including mine managed to bring the tribal dance off. Again and again, cooperation is the most unblinkingly indispensable factor that contributes to this final success! Good job everyone!!! Thanks for cooperating. Thanks to you to Mdm Juridah…Cheers :)
LUKMAN HAKIM
139778 K21
TRIBAL DANCE FEVER
It is my very first time to dance like a mad man in front of the public.
But somehow, with the help of my blue mask I feel like all of my shame feeling blocked outside of the mask.
I think the mask is my factor that I can perform very well during our tribal dance that night.
I feel comfortable to express myself, dancing, yelling, and jumping with weird custom-made shirt which actually my towel.
During that tribal dance, I asked my friend Khalifah to take videos of my group presentation.
Although Izzatie still on medical leave and cannot perform, we manage to present that tribal dance successfully compared to our practice session which I thought not really appealing to Madam Ju.
After getting the comment from Madam, we all knows that we had done a very good job with the tribal dance, and I was very proud with the commitment of my group. Thank you.
adilah ngadalan
139764
k21 (tesl-twinning)
When Pn. Juridah told us about making a minor performance on tribal dance, I was a bit shocked. This was because we have to create a new language and create a story line which can still be understood by the audience. Before everything can start, we need to make masks using glue and flour and after that paint them creatively. This process took a lot of time as the task needs a lot of patience or else we would end up ruining them. Besides, after the act, we must use simple props to create background music for the tribal dance. However, after discussing with the team members, we came up with the idea on making a simple story of a young man and woman fall in love with each other but as they came from different tribe, the father of the young woman is against it. We were having difficulties in deciding the language but manage to overcome it by producing many new words with meaning. After that, we created the script and everybody started memorizing them. Other than that, we have designed our costume using plastic sack. After cutting them, we sew them into simple cloth for both tribe and paint them using spray. When the day came, we were actually very surprised that the performance was enjoyed by the audience and Pn Juridah. Our classmates praise us, saying our group did really good and was the most understood one. Heehee. Although a lot of effort and time has been put for this minor performance, we heaved a sigh of relief as everybody liked it.
adilah ngadalan
139764
k21 (tesl-twinning)
When Pn. Juridah told us about making a minor performance on tribal dance, I was a bit shocked. This was because we have to create a new language and create a story line which can still be understood by the audience. Before everything can start, we need to make masks using glue and flour and after that paint them creatively. This process took a lot of time as the task needs a lot of patience or else we would end up ruining them. Besides, after the act, we must use simple props to create background music for the tribal dance. However, after discussing with the team members, we came up with the idea on making a simple story of a young man and woman fall in love with each other but as they came from different tribe, the father of the young woman is against it. We were having difficulties in deciding the language but manage to overcome it by producing many new words with meaning. After that, we created the script and everybody started memorizing them. Other than that, we have designed our costume using plastic sack. After cutting them, we sew them into simple cloth for both tribe and paint them using spray. When the day came, we were actually very surprised that the performance was enjoyed by the audience and Pn Juridah. Our classmates praise us, saying our group did really good and was the most understood one. Heehee. Although a lot of effort and time has been put for this minor performance, we heaved a sigh of relief as everybody liked it.
Wan Mohd Fharid(139760)
TESL Twinning
K21
Dancing it is..
Tribal dance, that’s what we need to do for another minor performances in the theatre classroom. Firstly, I think that it is something new for most of us to dance and create a tribe from a scratch. We all have come up with idea of a tribe living close to the water, in our group it is the sea. It makes us to create a simple storyline whereas the family is facing a food crisis, the parents are having trouble with their children and the food is running out. The dancing is rather simple, but meaningful. It comprises of two sections, the good luck dance and the welcoming dance. Though simple, it represents the tribe very well, simple and moderate. From there, everything goes on smoothly, and I enjoy doing the dance, we all enjoy it. The important here is that, cooperation from group member is really sought after, because the preparation time is limited and the resource is also limited. I’m very glad that we all can pull such a show, even with all the hindrance. As an end note, I congratulate my members for pulling such a good performances and also for the other group that also have done a magnificent job. We all deserve a big clap for ourselves.
Yvonne Lee Ik Yin (139762) K21
Tribal dance.. When I first learnt that we need to perform a tribal dance as one of the minor perfomance for EDU3202, the first thing that come to my mind is the tribal dance of people in New Zealands, those "huga saga, huga saga" type of dance.. Bur there is more to it. We started off by learning to make our own mask with newspapers, water and tapioca starch. I was not feeling well on the day I made my mask, hence after lying on the ground under the sun, I was dizzy and giddy. Haha. One of my groupmates managed to get bamboo, as we need to create our own piece of music using materials from mother nature. We also need a storyline to be adapted to our tribal dance and use our own language where no one knows but will have to understand. Wow, tough job! But we managed it through. I stayed over in hostel (I moved out this sem) for the last rehearsal. Although it was a great experice for us, but i was glad it was over. Going through this tribal dance, I am glad to say that we have had a little taste of what our final performance would be like..
Tribal dance…I have no idea when Pn. Ju instructs us to do this minor performance. But, after having a brief explaination from her, it helps me in visualizing the performance. We have to build our own tribal group by designing the mask, language, accessories and also the dance steps. It is so unique because we have to pour all of our creativity in this performance. Making the masks had taken lots of our time but we are so satisfied because the masks fulfill our needs. But, we have some problems in making our own language. At last, we decided to only say “kukukukuku” and “aaaaaa” due to lack of time to make and practice more difficult language. In addition, intonation is use to shows that we were communicating with each other. We use recycle things to produce music and that helps us in making natural sound and also save our money. Besides that, we all have work all out in finding our accessories. Some of us had to collect leaves to be made as clothes and the other had to find the bamboo. Although we did not have much time to practice, we are all so happy because our tribal dance turns well and Pn. Ju satisfied with our performance. It is worth after spending lots of our time for it. We are also enjoyed with what we have done. Thank you to Pn. Ju for your guidance and also thousands of thanks for all of my group members in making this performance successful. Congratulations also for other groups. We all have done our best. Hope we can do the best for our major performance!
We named our tribe Rosas. Even though I was unable to join tribal dance performance because I was so very sick, I get to watch the video recorded. I sure would like to watch others’ too-how they performed and what kind of creativity they did. But I join the practices we did and all is not lost. The funniest thing I and another member did for this performance is that we illegally cut some big ‘daun palm tree ‘ …I think that’s what that tree called. Well, we did it at noon, where everyone was about and on the streets (for god’s sake!). I don’t even want to think what’ll happen or what we’ll answer if we get caught spoiling UPM’s precious tree leaves!! hahaaa [we only took the leaves of the trees…] we took it from tress beside the street where nobody cares, anyway…We had guys waving at us and even the whole passengers on the bus looking at us weirdly. We had our hand full that day. But secretly, it was kinda fun….a little out of the ordinary…for our monotonous campus life, anyway…
Tribal Dance. The name itself sure does sound like a weird activity. After listening to Puan Juridah’s explanation, yes, I was right. It sure does weird for me. What more can one expects to make it sound unusual? Come out with our own language, dance for a certain ceremony, prepare the so-called unique costume and create our own tribe.
The task begins with making a hand-made mask. The process itself has tickled me. Why not, our group done nothing on the first day. The glue did not work at all, and the paper was too obstinate to stick on Naim’s face. As a solution, we decided to cook; the only group who cook with rice cooker actually. After that, the process for making the mask goes smoothly. While doing mine, I think it was fun and quite funny. Feels like a paper face mask with massage. It was so relaxing and surprisingly so I slept for 3 hours.
After that, the bizarre discussion begins with designing our own identity. Obviously, it was not an easy job. We started with designing the mask, taking into the color and decoration. What I love most about my mask is actually the false hair which is longer than my on hair. Though it was annoying at first, but I began to love it later.
Then, we began our discussion on the story and the type of ritual. Everyone eagerly comes out with their own ideas but after discussion, we chose the one that looks like the short story ‘Looking for A Rain God’ but in a twisted way. Only then we begin to brain storm about the language. I did think to just throw any meaningless words but then, it would be more systematic if we create certain important words so that it would flow better. I really laugh my heart out after reading the ‘new’ words. It was amazing too.
The next step was designing the costumes, symbols and ritual. This is the part I love the most. For the first time ever, the two guys seem to be fully-spirited. Four days before performance, they already picked the leaves. Sadly, we could not use it all for it dried two days after. But I chose not to tell them for it will decrease their spirit level. While doing the costumes, I really had so much enjoyment. I even name our own tribe though it was not needed at all. I called it ‘Puak Daun Pisang’. Obviously, because we use lots of banana leaves and even turns it out as our clothes. Believe it or not, on the day before the performance, we are still doing the research which is watching a movie about a nearly disappear tribe; Apocalypto, I guess.
The tribal dance has probably made me realize one thing. I never knew I could sew so fast. Those costumes were done alone by me only in two nights. And I did sleep soundly. The other members did the coloring, designing symbols and stick the leaves. I actually volunteered to do costumes. Sewing is actually one of my hobbies. Guess it was useful at last. The last stage for preparation is definitely choreographing the dance. Honestly, it was done a few hours before the performance and we had never done the full rehearsal at all. Whoever had a weird idea, it would be just accepted. It was a last minutes work, so what else could be expected.
But thank God nothing screwed up on the performance night. I gave the best of me and amazingly, the dance work out better than I ever imagined. Thanks to all of my team members. They have done the best and I am very proud to be part of the team.
NOORSHARIZAH BINTI JAMMURI 139785 K21
:: TRIBAL DANCE ::
Historically, a ceremonial tribal dance is extremely popular in those days. Hence, when we were assigned to come out with a tribal dancing, we, automatically thought of the ceremonial after killing the enemies where Sharazi and Amirul became the warriors, who returned to the tribe with cutting heads on their hands. As eagle always be associated with freedom, so we decided to use the rhythm of “ku..ku..ku” as our language interaction. Funny it was. Initially, we did our first attempt on the mask on Sharazi as our tester. Because we wanted to make it thick, therefore, the drying process was REALLY slow. At last, because it did not fully dry, the mask became terribly destroyed. Sharazi was really sad. Later, we reconstruct our masks and designed it in bold design and abstract patterns. We did paste chicken feathers around our mask to make it more realistic. Interesting about our performance was that we made use of bamboo, coconut shells and different kind of shells as our accessories. As our setting was near the river, that was why I went out to Sri Kembangan to search for coconut shells and the different kinds of shell for our accessories. To make the hole onto the shells and to attach it making it into necklace for the warriors and bracelet for the villagers were really exhausting yet fascinating experience. I learned how to knot! Moreover, I did enjoy the dancing as it was unique, naturally-occurring forces like I were having this some sort of spiritual meaning. The music was also loud and consistence as we used bamboo and coconut shells as out materials for the tribal song. I am so proud of my group members. Although we are busy with so many things, we still manage to get it done with. Even if ours is not as extravaganza as others’, I sure want to keep it as one of my best memories ever.
NOORSHARIZAH BINTI JAMMURI 139785 K21
Historically, a ceremonial tribal dance is extremely popular in those days. Hence, when we were assigned to come out with a tribal dancing, we, automatically thought of the ceremonial after killing the enemies where Sharazi and Amirul became the warriors, who returned to the tribe with cutting heads on their hands. As eagle always be associated with freedom, so we decided to use the rhythm of “ku..ku..ku” as our language interaction. Funny it was. Initially, we did our first attempt on the mask on Sharazi as our tester. Because we wanted to make it thick, therefore, the drying process was REALLY slow. At last, because it did not fully dry, the mask became terribly destroyed. Sharazi was really sad. Later, we reconstruct our masks and designed it in bold design and abstract patterns. We did paste chicken feathers around our mask to make it more realistic. Interesting about our performance was that we made use of bamboo, coconut shells and different kind of shells as our accessories. As our setting was near the river, that was why I went out to Sri Kembangan to search for coconut shells and the different kinds of shell for our accessories. To make the hole onto the shells and to attach it making it into necklace for the warriors and bracelet for the villagers were really exhausting yet fascinating experience. I learned how to knot! Moreover, I did enjoy the dancing as it was unique, naturally-occurring forces like I were having this some sort of spiritual meaning. The music was also loud and consistence as we used bamboo and coconut shells as out materials for the tribal song. I am so proud of my group members. Although we are busy with so many things, we still manage to get it done with. Even if ours is not as extravaganza as others’, I sure want to keep it as one of my best memories ever.
Name : Siti Zawiyah bt Saidin
Matric no : 139757
Group : K21
The first time I heard about tribal dance it really scared me. I have been imagined about wearing some weird attire and behave like a barbarian!
The day has come. My early expectation seems appropriate with the activity. My lecturer, Pn Juridah assigned each group to come out with their own tribe. The tribe must have costume, mask, language, dance and a story line for a short drama. The first step that my group has taken was making a mask for each member. The masks are made by newspaper cut that we soaked in the water and put them on our face. By using the starch we paste the newspaper cut step by step in order to make it harder. It was a new experience for me. I have some experience for doing crafts by using the newspaper cut in primary school. However, it is different from this activity as we have used our own face instead of the balloon. Although, it took a long time to wait for the mask to be dried, everybody was helping each other without complaining. We were having fun.
My group chose a story about a ritual ceremony for sacrificing an innocence child to the God. Basically, the whole story was adapted from Form four literature short stories, Looking for A Rain God. So, the masks were designed based on the status, sex and ages of the characters. And for the costume, we were fully utilized the nature such as leaves, branches and grass. Nature is a symbol to our tribe as we came from the jungle.
I think the toughest part in the activity was creating a language that cannot be understood by people outside our tribe. Now, I know how difficult to form a new language. So, we come out with words that were weird and improvised the spelling of some English and Malay language. For example, we are atik and the headman is Datu Apang. When the script has been done, everybody was laughing with the strange sound production. It was very interesting experience.
The combination of art and linguistic in tribal dance developed the uniqueness of each performance at that night. The positive side of this activity was lowering anxiety while performing in front of the audience. But, the negative effect of wearing masks is voice projection. Some of us were facing some problems to project their voice. Overall, I was very enjoyed and satisfied with what i have done in the activity. It was a best way to guide us before our main performance.
Nor Ayuni bt Kamarul Zahan
139786
K21
Tribal Dance. The name itself sure does sound like a weird activity. After listening to Puan Juridah’s explanation, yes, I was right. It sure does weird for me. What more can one expects to make it sound unusual? Come out with our own language, dance for a certain ceremony, prepare the so-called unique costume and create our own tribe.
The task begins with making a hand-made mask. The process itself has tickled me. Why not, our group done nothing on the first day. The glue did not work at all, and the paper was too obstinate to stick on Naim’s face. As a solution, we decided to cook; the only group who cook with rice cooker actually. After that, the process for making the mask goes smoothly. While doing mine, I think it was fun and quite funny. Feels like a paper face mask with massage. It was so relaxing and surprisingly so I slept for 3 hours.
After that, the bizarre discussion begins with designing our own identity. Obviously, it was not an easy job. We started with designing the mask, taking into the color and decoration. What I love most about my mask is actually the false hair which is longer than my on hair. Though it was annoying at first, but I began to love it later.
Then, we began our discussion on the story and the type of ritual. Everyone eagerly comes out with their own ideas but after discussion, we chose the one that looks like the short story ‘Looking for A Rain God’ but in a twisted way. Only then we begin to brain storm about the language. I did think to just throw any meaningless words but then, it would be more systematic if we create certain important words so that it would flow better. I really laugh my heart out after reading the ‘new’ words. It was amazing too.
The next step was designing the costumes, symbols and ritual. This is the part I love the most. For the first time ever, the two guys seem to be fully-spirited. Four days before performance, they already picked the leaves. Sadly, we could not use it all for it dried two days after. But I chose not to tell them for it will decrease their spirit level. While doing the costumes, I really had so much enjoyment. I even name our own tribe though it was not needed at all. I called it ‘Puak Daun Pisang’. Obviously, because we use lots of banana leaves and even turns it out as our clothes. Believe it or not, on the day before the performance, we are still doing the research which is watching a movie about a nearly disappear tribe; Apocalypto, I guess.
The tribal dance has probably made me realize one thing. I never knew I could sew so fast. Those costumes were done alone by me only in two nights. And I did sleep soundly. The other members did the coloring, designing symbols and stick the leaves. I actually volunteered to do costumes. Sewing is actually one of my hobbies. Guess it was useful at last. The last stage for preparation is definitely choreographing the dance. Honestly, it was done a few hours before the performance and we had never done the full rehearsal at all. Whoever had a weird idea, it would be just accepted. It was a last minutes work, so what else could be expected.
But thank God nothing screwed up on the performance night. I gave the best of me and amazingly, the dance work out better than I ever imagined. Thanks to all of my team members. They have done the best and I am very proud to be part of the team.
Jahiza Jumain 139773
Our minor performance the tribal dance can be considered as one of the most difficult and challenging task we have done for this course. I felt tired the whole week just thinking of how to make my mask really looks like one (at least to look a little bit like the hideous green mask from ‘The Mask’!). While I was struggling on how to make this possible, our group finally came up with an idea of a Monkey Tribe based on a video clip that we have seen before. Since it sounds fun, we all agreed then to Jeepa’s idea of a wedding ceremony for the tribe. I was to design the mask based on my reference to the video and also a printed tee borrowed from a friend of ours. So, satisfaction filled me when seeing the masks look so cute and attractive. Overall, the whole performance ran smoothly that night except that a few things here and there did not turn out to follow what we have planned earlier (Don’t get me wrong here…I didn’t blame anyone ok!). But seriously, I could not stop laughing seeing my friends walk in with their monkey style. So cute!...but that it is until I saw me doing it, and acting like a drunken wedding singer, I felt so embarrassed! Whatever it is, I am proud of my group’s work and cooperation! Guys, good job!
Nor Izyan Ahmad (139788) K21
At first I thought the tribal dance is another complicated performance when it was firstly introduced by Puan Juridah. Of course it really need a lot of preparation and it was really a time consuming in preparing and painting the masks, costume designing and producing sounds from the used tools and not from any instrumental music. However, I am totally wrong.. Instead, all things become easier when everyone done their job equally without bothering who done extra job or who did the less job. For my group, Turquoise the guys were asked to search for banana leaves and coconut leaves while the girls helped in sewing the leaves on the clothes. In creating the tribe language, we had list down few catchy words that come across our mind. It sounds very funny to the audience when we also include the name of characters in kids programme such as gaban (stop), pikapika(run away!!) and mojako(thirsty). Come on the performance day, all of us look like from the aborigines in modern century. Everyone was laugh to each other when they were in their own loinclothes (trademark of their tribe). The creativity and resourcefulness of every group were revealed when everyone manage to come out with an interesting and amusing storyline. After all, it was really a memorable and a great experience to us in involving on this tribal performance..…
Farhana Syahira bt Kamarudzaman
139768
K21
We have completely done our 7th minor performance which is tribal dance. I expect it would be easier as it just a dance, But, it’s not only a dance. We have to make a mask and create our own language. It’s really challenging. First, we have to think our tribal belief and it has to be a new belief and different from other groups. After we get the idea we move to the harder part, to create a mask. It is made of pieces of newspaper and using tapioca flour. Later , to make it real, we have to paint it. We chose to use mural paint and also colour paste. To complete ‘our tribe’ we have to include our tribe’s language. Each of us has to use our own name as a language. Plus, our costumes have to be totally made of nature items such pandan leaves, flower, bamboo as the instrument and. During the performance, I found out that all groups successful present their tribal dance. However, most of the comment from our respective lecturer is about requiring voice projection. This is because when we wear the mask, our voice is not very clear, so we have to speak louder. The comment really helps my group to improve as we are the last group. In my opinion, my group lack of practise therefore we are quite nervous and sometime forget the story line. Overall, tribal dance is most interesting performance and news for me. I learn a lot from this task and hope to apply it in the future.
hazleen bt. samin 139769 k21
Performing the tribal dance (for our 5th minor performance) was a really interesting experience, even though I had to do lot of scarifications in doing the preparation for it such as my sleeping time ;) –especially during doing the mask.
We need to prepare lot of things and we take 2 weeks to do all the preparation for that 13 minutes performance. We need to make our own masks, and then decorate it which is not as easy as it sounds. We also make our costume, using leaves and strings! Its really challenge our creativity in order to make it looks real and beautiful ;p Other than that, we also required to create the steps and the music –of cause it becomes difficult as we are only allowed to use things that we can find around us! And the most exciting part is we need to create our own language, a language that no one can understand! (we are actually make a noise!). In short, this minor performance required lots of effort and commitment from us, compare to other performances that we had done before. However it really help us to boost our creativity-as we need to create our own tribe that no one know about it, and personally I had gain an exciting, unforgettable experience as well as knowledge (especially in making the mask!)
Involving in an activity like tribal dance, I would say that it really requires me to spend lots of my time and effort in doing the preparations. Not only that, I also have to maintain my emotions and feelings in dealing with my group members. It is not a hard task since I have been working together with them doing all kinds of minor performance for almost nine weeks. Actually, before we get into the performance, we have to prepare the mask, the props that we are going to use and also the dance itself. The dance must be relevant to the tribe’s identity. Frankly speaking,I like the way our lecturer, Pn Juridah suggests to us about to be economic. We do not have to spend lots of money on props or costumes. In tribal dance performance, we are recommended to use the props from our own nature like bamboo, leaves, wooden stick, pebbles and things like bottle, aluminum tins in order to produce sounds. Actually, it depends on our creativity how to make it interesting and nice to everybody. Then, what I would like to stress here is, making a mask consumes much of time. But, I enjoy it very much. The funny thing is, I sleep for almost one hour with the mask on my face while waiting for it to dry. The same thing goes to my other group members. It is like a new experience for us. Suffice to say that, all of us work hard to make sure that we can perform the best and be able to please the lecturer and other groups. Thank God, everything goes well and Pn Juridah has given a good feedback where she enjoys all the performances very much.
The monologue was a bit scary for me (a lot infact!) but some how I manage through it. I made a big mistake though. My monologue is about a prank call from Hitz.fm, JJ and Rudy. Why I choose that was because I knew most of my friends would take some tragic, sad or comedy scenes and I wanted to do something different but it cost me. So what happen through out the whole thing was that I was on phone and Pn.Ju said that it shouldn’t have been like that because there isn’t any communication between myself and the audience. So better luck for me the next time.
My dialogue, I paired up with Mariam and it was about two step-sisters arguing. I It was ok, I was the mean, bossy and arrogant sister mean while Mariam was being “Cinderella”. I am suppose to go to a party when Mariam wants to tag along and she has bough a new dress to go with it. So you can guess what happened next. I took the dress away from her and fought over it. Well Pn. Ju said I wasn’t mean enough (I guess have to work on my “mean skills”)
zati hanani bt shamsudin
139763
K 21
A get-it-done-quickly-and-rush-your-face-to-be-cleaned syndrome had occurred among us…probably, for the previous two weeks. Starting from tearing the newspapers into small, bite-sized wafer --- hmm…is it because of this is fasting month and wafer becomes the perfect analogy to the tiny pieces of newspapers --- until, all the masks had neatly painted and sprayed with striking and vivid colours like orange, yellow etcetera. Making costumes, accessories and props out of the ideas you had brainstormed earlier were quite hard yet interestingly fun. The former was because to come out with your own tribal identity without hardly any outside influences, cracking your head was a must. The latter one was --- do I need to explain how damn enjoyable it was --- we had so much fun during the preparation of designing and crafting our tribal vogue outfits and accessories.
The night had come and it was enough with all the preparation; the language and the storyline were what to be taken into account. All of the groups had given their best performances and all of us were amusingly funny. Congratulation buddies!! Credits to members of my group and also to others especially to the best performer that night; Under the Tree Production. Really hope to be in that fashionable gunny sack..hahaha!! Whatever it was, let’s get back to our mentor, Puan Ju who was really helpful in initiating our creativities and triggering the wackiness out of the different sizes of our heads. Thank you, Puan Ju, really looking forward to the next performance and the major one.
dear pn juridah..
for sculptersculptor..
i had fun!!! i wasnt stress...we didnt have to do too much practise..
we did sumthing simple but for me..its cute..
hahhaahahah..
i found it a good way to play around..
it should be like another version of 'charade' only more people are involve.
i love what we did in class. and i think i will have my students do this in class... maybe get a few poems with simple themes..and ask their classmate to do it..i should write a lesson plan for that..yes..i think i should. hahahaha
congratulations for creating a fun-filled day for us..
monologue..
fuyoo..this is one tiring assignment. i had fun but i was not satisfied with my performance. no matter how much i tried to prepare myself, i just wasn't prepared. i used to love acting. but then i don't know. i prepared everything i was going to say, i remember it by heart n by instinct. however, when i was up there, i just don't know what to say. i was so sleepy i felt like the best monologue was to become polar bear hibernating.all i do is sleep for 10minutes and i would have done a perfect act for a hibernating polar bear.
hahahaha..
well, i hope that we can have more of monologue.because from monologue, we can see the real personality of an individual. like me, i wanted to become a person in a mental asylum, who went crazy because of change. I have been in a boarding school in which i have to constantly bow down to what people WANT me to be. It was hard, and i shed a lot of tears. I think that i've let go of a lot of frustration during the monologue. to me, my self then, now and the future was and always be a hipocrit who will jus do anything to make people happy. because being myself can only make people hate me.
dialogue..
oh man..taihen desu ne!!!
i only got my partner the day before the performance (dalila)
and we did not have time to discuss it..i mean seriously sit down and discuss.
but then, since the both of us has online connection, we decided to discuss it on YM. wahahaha.
we came up with lots of idea, but end up with two roomates fighting because it was kind of realistic. we have that all the time, but no one has the idea on how to deal with it besides giving the 'silent treatment' haha.
during the performance, i was very much speechless. i wanted the character to have very little lines but i ended up talking nonsense. well, the words are all jumbled up in my brain. the script make sense.but somehow my brains rearrange the lexical chunks in the wrong order. therefore, my lines were very much 'kelam kabut'.
but then, my friends enjoyed the performance (hopefully). There were a lot of spontaneous humour which dalila and i did not plan. it wasnt suppose to be a comedy. but then, you know, i had fun. dalila too. i hope she had fun because this was the first time i paired with her.
watching her smile after the dialogue made me happy because it shows that i did not screw it up for the both of us.
mask man!!!
i wanted to be an ultraman / kamen rider / lembaga baja hitam..but end up being a kupuluhutukmu tribe of i dono where. (we dont have maps)
it was fun. i love arts and crafts so i enjoyed making the mask.
i think i had a problem doing this task. it requires a lot of group work. we had to sit together to make costumes, mask and all. i guess it is my introvert season. i did not enjoy any meetings with my teammates, i did not enjoy sitting down with them not did i wanted to spend the whole day waiting for them. its my bad. but it has nothing to do with them, its just that my mood was not very good these few weeks. family matter, but then, im only human...how long can i pretend to be happy and go out and sit around watching people. i finished making my costume n mask days before my teammates so i wanted to sleep. but then, i dont think its nice to leave them do all the work and i really2 wanted to help. but my mind was kind of very occupied and i really2 needed time alone.painting and sewing helped me ease my tension but listening to people talk, answering questions, just got on my nerves. i went to a doctor with my sister and my bp was 115/79...borderline to prehypertension. a little bit more than i could be one of his youngest hypertension patients. hahaha... no im tensed..not because of theatre...but i have a lot of things / burden in mind that no friends can help me carry.
i had fun during the tribal dance.
when u said that my chant was really haunting, i was so happy. finally, there was something good in growing up in a pagan society where grandmothers sacrifice the sons to the devil, listening to all the chants when they call out the devil. finally, that experience was benificial in some way.
Sixth minor performance:
Tribal Dance and Mask
Eunice Ong Luyee
138803
Tribal dance, something that is new to me actually. Haha… I do not really know about any tribal dance in this world; luckily Pn. Ju asked us to create our own tribe. So, we used our imagination and creativity and build a tribe name ‘kupuluhutukmu’ (want to know how we get this name? I think better make it a mystery…keke..=p) and unfortunately this tribe left one guy in it. Then the story goes on. Well, I am not focusing on the story now, I am focusing on the experience that I get from this performance.
Dancing is not a new thing for me already, as we did the rhyme and movement; yet the tribe dance do confuse me a bit. It is totally not modern dance. Furthermore we can’t use music during our performance; we need to produce our own music by tools or sounds. It is really interesting, we create our own songs and steps and we do whatever we want in front of that. I think we are more to enjoy what we are doing than performing what we are doing.
Next, the mask; which is totally a new thing for me! I am really very happy that I finally succeed to make my own mask. Although my mask is not that beautiful, yet I am still satisfied with it; it is my masterpiece….keke…
Overall, this minor performance is an interesting and enjoyable thing for me. I enjoy watching others performance (especially Faezah’s group) and I am glad that I made a mask for myself….=>
owh k... tribal dance eh.. my first impression,wth will the dance like? I wonder if the dance will be like whole bunch of people running around a campfire and go shouting singing dancing.. oh well.. Therefore I was thinking how are we supposed to have a theme for this kind of dance? After listen to the explanation only I understand and have a clear mind about it. Everything is hard at the moment to get started, same as my group has taken quite a tough time in making decision on what kind of tribal dance will be performed. Oh ya, monkey dance.. Fore sure not much people will come through this. Actually the idea of monkey dance has been voiced out during our decision making on body movement and rthym performance. This time we have decided on performing the monkey dance since most of the group is performing their tribal dance in human community. I think my group is special compared to other groups..Haha xD Seriously, during the night of our performance I really enjoy through out the process. I'm sure I can go crazy with or without the mask, because I think the most important thing in dancing is enjoy it. Once we enjoy it, all the worries anxieties and nervousness will be gone. And one more thing, no one in the group should be blamed if something din't go as the plan.
To begin with, it was a funny and very authentic performance from all the participants. I say it was a very authentic performance because the idea and the creativity were originally produced from our discussion. Taking some videos from the real tribal dance that we found, we created our own tribal dance and it is very meaningful because most of the dance based on our culture and the cultures around us. The most significant part in our performance is the mask. We created our own mask, just like doing facial treatment, because it was time consuming and even fell asleep during our friends help us to make the mask. Then the mask was dried under the hot sun and we put the finishing on it. We have to colour the mask and decorate it coherently to our theme that we had chose. Each group comes out with dance from various tribal backgrounds. Basically, the background and the way each tribe poses their identity are based on where they live or the environment around them. The presentation itself was held in a light environment. So I would like to thanks Puan Juridah because she is able to create an interesting way to attract students into the lesson. Overall, I satisfied with my group’s performance and Puan Juridah ‘s comment was very constructive and help us a lot in this theatre class.
Siti Nurfairuz bt. Mohd Hanif
139756
K21
So-so. That’s my view of my group’s performance that night. It’s hard for me to admit this..but I do have a bit of regret for not doing enough preparation for the tribal dance. Actually, I was quite clueless in fulfilling the requirements for this particular minor performance. Initially, I thought we could babble anything as long as the communication between the tribe members went smoothly. I only knew that every word should have its own meaning after we finished performing, and that we shouldn’t do too many repetitions in our tribe’s language. Well, there’s no one to be blamed except for ourselves. We sort of putting lack attention on our tribe’s language. The only sound that we produced was our own monkey tribe’s language, namely “kukumalu”and “uuk uuk, aak aak”, which was repeatedly said all through our performance. I felt hilarious everytime we talked that way and it was truly a challenge for trying to hold myself not to giggle or laugh at that moment. The masks that we wore were a great thing to cover our facial expressions, as we were more confident and comfortable to express ourselves in odd ways. As there was a greater effort on preparing the masks and the costumes, I am therefore very happy with our masks because they were cute!hee. In terms of group work, I give credit to all Goliathus’s members for their great co-operation. Thank you guys! I really learn the value of teamwork whilst completing this activity. Although it took a lot of time and effort preparing and practicing for this activity, it is all worthwhile.
Izzatul Hazwani Binti Saimin
139772
K 21
Unfulfilled…… is the right word that can visualize my feelings after our performance which is Tribal Dance. I know it sounds weird and confusing......but I have all the explanation. First and foremost, in order to perform the dance, there are two stages that should be completed. The first stage is making and designing masks and the other stage is planning and practicing the dance.
The first stage: Making and designing masks
The week before the dance performance, all of us attend a workshop in making masks conducted by our lecturer Pn. Juridah. In making the masks, we need old newspapers, balloons and 2 kilogram of tapioca flour. We use tapioca flour as the glue for our masks. First, we boil water and then we pour the water in a pail containing the flour. Then we stir the mixture until it is sticky. The old newspapers are cut into pieces and soak in water. When both items are ready, we start making mask for the boys in our group. This is because; it is easier for boys as they do not wear any scarf. The first 3 layers of the newspapers are put on their faces only by using water. The reason is because; it will be difficult at the end of the process, to peel off the mask form their face if we use the glue. Then only we can put on another 5 layers of the newspapers with the glue. We can add on as many layers as we wish because the thicker the mask, the better. For our group, we add on another 5 layers of plain A4 papers at the masks. This is for better effect of the masks.
After each of us has our own mask, we start to design it. We choose a monkey tribe and design our masks just like monkey. We use black spray paint for the background and yellow oil-paint for the effects.
The second stage: Planning and practicing the dance
Each of us already has our own mask!!! The process is so interesting and I have great times in making and designing my own mask. But the depressing part comes at the second stage. The reason is that our group did not have ample time to plan and practice the dance. Our lecturer has already given us enough time for the preparation, but it is fate that all of our group members are attached to their business during the weekend before the performance. All of us need to go back home and we cannot practice and plan for our costume. But…it eventually resolved! As we return to the hostel, we work hard to catch up with the things that we have missed. Some of us went to Bukit Expo to find banana after that we workleaves, and I went to Sri Serdang to buy bananas! together to sew and decorate our ‘monkey tribe’ costume.
All the process in making the performance successful is so meaningful to me. Everyone in my group put their best and very sporting. Instead of enjoying doing the performance, I am also glad of the bond between each member in the group as I believe that as long as we unite, anything can be done!
So….the unsatisfying part is that despite the fact that we are able to perform that night, deep in our heart, we wish that we have more time to prepare for the dance, so that we can enjoy the pleasure of successfully performing the task!..This of course as we believe that ample time are needed to produce more interesting performance.
Norsheila Jamil – 139745 – K21
Tribal dance
KUKUMALUKUKUMALUMALUMALUKUKU….UKK..UKKK….
Have you guys heard the language before? Nope? Me neither. But for our minor performance last week, which we have to perform a tribal dance, the Goliathus clanz have created the language. Honestly, I think that this task is the most unique, challenging and tiring, yet fun activity. The amount of time and work to prepare this task has nearly killed me. The first preparation was making the mask for each group members. Geez.. I didn’t know that making a mask was this hard! We have to scratch the newspaper, soak it into a pail of water, make glue from tapioca starch, make the base of the mask on our face, let it dry, and lastly paint and spray it according to our character and story. Beside the mask, we also have to prepare the costume for our tribe. This was the fun part that I enjoyed. Creating clothes from banana leaves, and flower, it was an interesting experience. The next thing was to prepare the instruments. Instruments that we used were basically bottle, beans, and pails. It took us almost a week to prepare the props for this minor performance and we only came up with the movements for the dance on the day of the performance. Thus, I felt a little regret of our lack of preparation. For this activity, we have presented the Monkey Tribe, and we have chosen to do the wedding ceremony of the tribe. We have infused some of the Malay wedding in it. Next, we have to create our own tribe language, which I think was the funniest experience for my group. Plus, my friend, Jahiza, have to sing a wedding song by using the tribe language. It was so hilarious. On the night of the performance, our group was the second group. Thus, we came early at DKAP and quickly wore our costume, and as we wore it, we couldn’t stop laughing at each other. Personally, I think our performance that night was in-prompt. Luckily, our face expressions were hiding behind the mask, thus no one can see how I laugh frantically. All in all, this kind of activity is able to examine one’s own potential in giving creative ideas. Beside, it helps to boost our confidence as our faces were hiding behind the mask. Lastly, congratulation for all my course mates for all the superb performance.
Nornazifah bt. Ahmad Kamarudin
139744 K21
Reminiscing back my tribal dance performance, I could not stop smiling, thinking of how all of us were enjoying ourselves to the fullest from the preparations to the performance day. I could say that the preparation for the performance was very tedious and quite tiring. Our group had decided to create a monkey tribe with a language-“kuku kuku malu malu”. Imagine, we have to make the mask, the costume, creating the storyline and the language tribe, and the dance moves in less than one week. Though our group makes the last minute preparation, I think we have done our best. To me, the important thing is to have fun while doing this performance so that it would be meaningful and remembered. From the preparation to the performance day, it was an insane thing that I have ever done in my life. Wearing nonsense-the banana leaves and monkey-like mask, dancing nonsense and talking nonsense really has somehow makes me look like a stupid monkey . Well, thanks to my monkey-like mask, it helped me to hide my face behind it. Without it, I don’t think I could act successfully like a real monkey. Nonetheless, I’m kind of proud of myself because I managed to do it with the support from my friends. During the performance, I could not stop laughing at myself and my other friends. All of us had done our best by performing an extremely interesting tribal dance performance. Thanks to Pn. Juridah by giving us guidance for the tribal dance performance. It is truly an INSANE, interesting memorable and ‘BESTEST’ performance I ever done…
Amirul Asraf b. Alias
139767 K21
Tribal dance
To begin with, it was a funny and very authentic performance from all the participants. I say it was a very authentic performance because the idea and the creativity were originally produced from our discussion. Taking some videos from the real tribal dance that we found, we created our own tribal dance and it is very meaningful because most of the dance based on our culture and the cultures around us. The most significant part in our performance is the mask. We created our own mask, just like doing facial treatment, because it was time consuming and even fell asleep during our friends help us to make the mask. Then the mask was dried under the hot sun and we put the finishing on it. We have to colour the mask and decorate it coherently to our theme that we had chose. Each group comes out with dance from various tribal backgrounds. Basically, the background and the way each tribe poses their identity are based on where they live or the environment around them. The presentation itself was held in a light environment. So I would like to thanks Puan Juridah because she is able to create an interesting way to attract students into the lesson. Overall, I satisfied with my group’s performance and Puan Juridah ‘s comment was very constructive and help us a lot in this theatre class.
KHAIRIL (135938)
MINOR PERFORMANCE: MONOLOGUE
This time around, I have to give a little extra effort because not like the previous one, I have to perform alone. It is also my first experience to act alone. It gets more exciting because as I heard from my friend who has done this kind of performance before, monologue is some kind of a crazy man would do. At that time when I knew it, I felt like I don’t want to do it. However, since it is important in the subject, so I have to do it no matter what it takes.
At last, I decided to perform about a life as a playboy. I thought this is pretty lame because I am not a playboy, so it is really difficult for me to get into the character. Whenever I practiced, I laughed at myself because it felt so awkward. Furthermore, everyone else are doing very well with their monologue which a bit shaken me off. When my turn has come, I think I did my best but my voice projection and my acting is still low as Pn. Ju commented on me. Therefore, I will work harder for my next performance to improve it.
KHAIRIL (135938)
MINOR PERFORMANCE: DIALOGUE
Dialogue requires me to perform with a partner, so this time I worked with Miza as a husband and wife. The story is about a couple who is expecting a baby in few more weeks and the husband (me) has to deal with his wife’s (Miza) behavior. The conflict occurred when the wife keep annoying her husband to do this and that. To me this is an interesting story and the both of us did it well. It is just that, the same old problems happened to me and my partner. Voice projection is the major problem to yet again. Overall, we did a great job in performing dialogue. As for all the other classmates, they are also doing great for the dialogue and I have great time watching.
Mohd Al Khalifa
139780
K 21
TRIBAL DANCE
'monkey dance nipon yuke yuke!' is a line from a song that is inspiring to my thought and mind. Maybe because of this song, our groups tend to choose it as our next minor performance. My god! We have only one day before the performance and yet we did not even had the chance to practice properly. Oh well, guess we have a good time back then at that night, where our group is going second to perform this crazy tribal dance. One word to describe my performance, embarrassed. This is because without the mask, I don’t think that I would ever do it, dancing and singing like monkey swinging among each other. Because our group mostly theme associated with banana, I have a hard time fitting into this tribe. This is because actually, I HATE BANANA. I don’t even like to eat it, except pengat pisang. Haha. Our performance exceeds 8 minutes, a world record for me to do something that embarrassing for that long. However, I am not satisfied with my costumes as it is incomplete without a proper robe. So I have to borrow the first group cloth to become my robe (it is weird as a monkey leader wears a ghost tribe robe). Nevertheless, I’m quite satisfied with my group mates as there are truly part of my soul when doing this activity. XD
Nur Khalis Nuruddin
139748
K 21
well the tribal dance was done and over with. In the past performance the my group had to do, a lot of them ended in many types of troubles but this time around, i think most of use can pat our self in the back and say that we did a good job. Well yes, the whole process of doing it is not just all laugh and game, we're starting to look at how our group work with each other and how everybody carry out their task. Needless to say, the fact that the tribal dance had a lot of things to do, revealed a few things that otherwise we would never have realized. Our group were a bit, if not really laid back and its time to change. In a few occasion a lot of physical pushing had to be done in order to get thing going.
All in all, we had fun doing it. Thats all that we think of when we're doing it, its all for the sake of the experience. Nothing more and nothing less.
KHAIRIL (135938)
MINOR PERFORMANCE: TRIBAL DANCE
This is the performance that I have been looking forward to ever since the second minor performance because I will be able to perform with my group members again. This time around, our group have to perform as a lost tribe and have a different storyline compared to other groups. I just have a minor part in this performance as an explorer who got possessed and raped by the all women tribe. However, it is a good experience for me since this is the second time I have to dance, which I noticed I like to dance more now. After a lot of hard works in preparing for this performance (mask, outfit and training), I feel that we have done our best and I am satisfied with our tribal dance. It was an exciting moment for all of us and all of us are having great time together.
halo pn. jue..
hehehe...thank GOD minor performance is over..so we can now focus on our final performance..in which there are just so many lines and i know that somehow or rather my lack of memorising abilities will conquer me.
for this minor performance...BLITHE SPIRIT..i get to be ELVIRA..woohoo!!! i love playing the ghost..
we had fun practising. i knew wad kind of ghost i wanted to be, but i wasn't sure of how to portray my ideal Elvira..
i personally enjoy working with agnes and faez coz we always have fun together. we enjoy practising (they had a good laugh when i had to run to the toilet every now and then-i had stomach ache) and we enjoyed the performance altogether.
I know definitely that i'm going to do something like this for my english class later on when i become a teacher. hehehe..
I enjoyed it so much that i want my students to enjoy it too..in the same time, i can promote performing arts, english and literature at the same time. Isn't that cool!!!
yeah.. i think the best thing to do when performing is to always enjoy urself. i enjoyed watching Jolyne's group because they were just hilarious. They interpreted it into a normal chinese setting and it was marvelous! I liked Jasmine n Ainee's group too because it definitely looked like they put in a lot of effort. And for ours.. I think we got credit too because we had fun. Like I said, when u have fun performing, people will have fun watching you too. Karma.. :P I always do things spontaneously, and thanks to faez and agnes who is always there to discpline me, I could actually remember the lines!!! hahaha..
BUt you see, when Pn. Jue said that we were fabulous, it really put our morales up... I know that now, we are more motivated to give our best shot for the final performance...
BRAVO to ALL MY CLASSMATES!!!
GANBARE for our FINAL PERFORMANCE!!
for the last minor prformance i decided to do with maisarah and rini. however, few days before the performance day rini had fever and she decided to quit from the doing that task. so i and maisarah had to work on our self without rini. the problem here is we dont have any replacement person to act out the third character. at first, we decided that we will just assumed that the third characrter which is ELVIRA (the ghost)are exist.but then when we started to practice we realized that it is quite difficult to act out the whole scene without ELVIRA. luckliy a few minutes before the performance start,kak yana voluntered herself to help us. it was so kind of her i must said because at least she still remember that we are one of her theater group members.
we were the third group on the first session. the first group really did well and at that moment i felt so nervous. maisarah kept comfort me with all her positive words. then, it makes me feel better.
during our performance everything seems to be perfect at first but in the middle of it there was one part where maisarah skip her script and at that moment i was like so panic.the audience are looking at us and what should i do? then, i quickly continued as if nothing were happend.but, seriously started from that point i forgot the whole script. however, it was alright and i dont blame maisarah for that. i understand that when you are on the stage you was like totally forget everything that you had memorized. besides, when this kind of thing happen it is actually gave us experience on how you should handle it if it happen next time.
as a whole i really enjoyed this last performance and once again thank you so much to kak yana!!!
we've done our tribal dance performance. i would say it was an enjoyable experience! we learned how u recycle the nature's thing to create our attire and instruments.
the hardest part is the sound making. we decided to use the 'nyam-nyam' word as our language! it made us feel like a hungry tribe. haha.
there are lots of thing that i have learned through the performance. one of it is to project a clear voice so that audience could hear you even from far.
watching other group's performance also gave me the other view of presenting the task. it is a very precious experience to see how other people project their iterpretation of the uncivilized tribe.
overall, i enjoy the performance!
matric num: 134996
Task:- Blithe Spirit
last sunday i've done my final minor task.. blithe spirit with Yana and Ami. i've acted as Ruth. first time i read the script, i found it difficult because there were some utterances that could make me stucked in uttering the script. so what i did was i altered few of the words. i used the similar words that i feel more comfortable in using it.
we've practiced few times, however on the very day my groupmate and i were a bit anxious as we're the first one to present. i think it had went on well though we could do better if we have less nervous and anxious.
i love to see how different people vould interpret different view and version though we all having the same script. it shows that everybody has their on creativity. however i could see that many of us are still aware of the environment and could not focus totally just into the character. but i do believe, practice makes perfect! and i believe all of us will do better and better for our major performance! =)
Minor performance 6 – Tribal dance
This is the most enjoyable task so far! I am satisfied with our tribal dance which pictured the ceremony of welcoming a newborn baby for the future leader for our tribe. The preparation requires a lot of things to do and to sacrifice including time, money and energy. I think, for this time performance, all of it was pays off. As for me, I enjoy the performance because I think we have done better than our previous performances. I feel that we were enjoyed doing it. Thanks to all group members. The time for preparing the costumes, the musical instruments, and also the mask leave a lot to learn and also sweet memories. For me, this time performance gives bigger picture on how our major performance would be. So we need to be well prepared especially in terms of the preparation time. For improvement, we need to improve on voice projection and also less hesitating. Just do it. Overall, I enjoy this performance very much!
Minor performance 7 – A Scene from Blythe Spirit
Concentration is the most important aspect in doing this task. This task really challenges my concentration and focus when acting. Because of its script consist of confusing dialogue which actually requires us to stick with our own line. One second late, you will lose it. I learnt that really put yourself on the character you hold, know your turn and also have the sense to feel the atmosphere or the mood during the scene are the keys to get concentrate with the line. Not to forget, the positioning also gives important roles in making the scene lively and real. This task is challenging and also ENJOYABLE!
Seventh Minor Performance:
Concentration Exercise
Eunice Ong Luyee
138803
We did our seventh minor performance few days ago. I am not satisfied with my performance this time actually. I forgot my script and there were some times that I was blank in front of there. I am not well prepared for this performance. So, I am quite upset this time. I think I will try more hard for my major performance later. Not much to say for this performance. Sad.....wuwu...:'(
Sculpture and sculptor...
I think this week’s minor performance is quite easy compared to other performance especially Rhythm and Movement, because it doesn’t require a lot of movement which we are not used to. This time, we just have to stay still as though we are some type of material like clay, wood or stone. But anyway, I prefer dancing the most because it is full of fun. We have really enjoyed the performance by when we had managed to come out with the steps. This Sculpture and Sculptor task has actually tested us on how we can stay concentrated, stay still in waiting the sculptor to sculpt our shape. For my group, our material is clay. Fahimah is our sculptor and we decided to make it as in a restaurant. We think it is quie easy to guess the title where obviously we have few of us sitting and eating the meal, waitress taking order, and a cook. Fahimah has to sculpt us when the music are played. I am the one who are sitting as the customer ordering menu. It is quite hard actually to focus on our position, to stay still. It is quite hard for me to bear from laughing when I was required to look into Asiah’s eyes, where she is taking position as the waitress. The most interesting sculpture among the groups, I think would be Khairil’s group. It was the sculpture on a fight between Jasmine ad Farihan for Khai at the shopping complex. The facial expressions are revealed. The idea was real. They are creative is such ways. We have enjoyed the other groups’ performances which are unique in their own ways. In overall, it was interesting, contrasting my thought that this performance would be boring. It was great.
4th - Monologue..
For my monologue performance, actually i was blank of idea. i don't know what to do and should i do.then, i think i make amistake when i decided to come out with a pregnant girl who is sad on what has happened to her, how the family couldn't accept the pregnancy after the boyfriend left her. the character is not really into me. i am actually comfortable in playing the character of a guy, a naughty guy of course. it makes me relaxes most. obviously in performing theatre or even plays, i frequently played as a guy. but this time, it is hard for me to project the feelings and even expressions. my session was actually dull, i think. but anyway, i enjoyed how other coursemates play their role. this session has actually help me further in recognizing the type of character that i am into most. it helps me in improving myself for the next performane..
5th - Dialogue
i did my dialogue with Siti Noor Asiah. compared to monologue, i wasn't too nervous this time. the way asiah had convinced me has helped me a lot. we had decided to come out with the argument of two best friends, on how their relationship has actually spoiled by another friend. it actually realted to our real lfe since Asiah an i are two best friends for almost five years until now. the dialogue is part of our life. we had actually done it well, and i satisfied with us, our effort taken. well done to asiah. she helps me a lot. the other group mostly did very well, most of them came out with a sad storyline, where i think if i was in their shoes, it's hard to keep into the feelings. i prefer to project the voice, for example having an arguement or fight, it actually reduce my nervousness.anyway good job to all.we did it great.
Tribal Dance
Our second last performance was tribal dance. That was an experience! We had to come up with our own tribe and create our own mask. I was excited about the idea of creating our own mask.I was given the role as a villain, so I guess I must look terrifying. So I came up with a sketch of my mask. Lots of helpful feedback from my group members and fellow classmates had help me in completing my mask. Our group had decided to do the base of the mask on our own face instead of putting it on a balloon so that we could get the real measurement of our face. After we had finished with the mask, we cracked our head all seven of us to come up with the dance and our tribe language. It was so tensed yet funny. Tense because of we need to come up with a dance which is not stereotype. Funny because our mouth started to feel numb due to the mumbling to the dunno-what-language that we created. After we had finished our preparations, the hardest thing to do is to perform in Balai Seni Budaya at our own college, which means a bunch of our college mates will be there to watch us perform! But hey, it was something weird because we never had this kind of thing before but we did it anyway. We perform at our own college, with a bunch of our college mates laughing at us, but we did it. That's what matters most.
Concentration Exercise
This time around I did my concentration exercise which was more like a dialogue between three people with Farihan and Ami. I wa not very satisfied with my performance! I Had two chances to perform yet I screwed both!Well, after I had finished with my role as the ghost Elvira with Farihan and Ami, I helped out Maisarah and Aza to be Elvira again because Rini was sick and couldn't make it. Pn Ju already told me what to improve for my second performance but still I screwed it up. So stupid of me!
TRIBAL DANCE
First of all, I would like to say that I love our costumes very much. Actually, we just were planning for the skirt and the hairy decorations as our costume. But then, we come out with the nice and bird-looking costume. In process of practice and decorate our costume, we mix and match the decorations according to our ideas and appropriateness to each of our members.
From all of our performance, we really have to give much effort and time to make it success. We spend a lot of time to practice and design our masks and costumes.
We successfully did the performance. However, one of our group members, Azliza cannot make the dance because she is not well. When we are forming a straight line, she should be in front of me and starts the steps with her right parts of body. Actually, I forgot to take her place. That’s why while dancing in the straight line; I seem to have the same steps as the person in front of me.
This dance tests us at many aspects. We not only have to move and make sounds from our mouth, but also play our musical instruments at the same time. We really have to pay attention to what we are doing. We have to dance, play the musical instruments and make our own sound effect from beginning to the ending of the dance. I realize that at the end of the dance, we are already lost our voice!
In overall, I really love the dance.(^-^)
Fara Alia (137528)
Minor Performance: Tribal Dance.
The group performance that require us to do so many things in term of creating story line, design costumes and mask, dance steps and create a new language. The first task that we need to do is mask. We were required to create a mask that suitable for our tribal dance. There were two ways in making mask, by using balloons or using our own face shape. For our group we decided to use our own face to make the mask. We use three colors for our mask, that is yellow, red and black. After finished with the mask, then we gather together to create the story line for our performance. We finally decided to do a story about a traitor who being captured by her tribe and will be eaten by the tribe. After that we then gather again to discuss about our costumes, dance steps and language that we will use in our performance. We design our costumes using lots of green leaves and for the traitor we use yellowish leaves. The leaves then we use to make skirts, top and leg bangles. Done with the costumes parts, then we go to props. For props we use a large branch, bananas, mangoes and coconut shells and raffia strings, while for our music instruments we use drinking bottles, coconut shells, broom sticks and rock. Overall, everybody had done a marvelous job in their tribal dance; we had fun and enjoy all the performance from our course mates and we were happy and satisfied with our tribal dance performance….what a hectic week….
Tribal dance is finally over.its a whole new experience for me.the process of doing the mask,creating the music,language,the costume and the concept is a lot of work.but somehow I enjoyed doing all these.the concept that we chose is tribal wedding.all through the preparation for tribal dance we faced a few challenges,first our mask didn’t turn out well,so we had to do another mask.this time we used balloons.second,we planned to carry the bride using bamboos,we tried looking for it but unfortunately we didn’t get any bamboos.then the night before our tribal dance we realized we don’t have enough music instruments. But still we managed to overcome these and gave a good performance.the experience of being chased by our pengurus kolej for plucking flowers can never be forgotten.
The last minor performance was concentration exercise. We were given a script from Blythe Spirit and we were supposed to act out the scene. Our setting was in the 80’s and our concept was the traditional Indian.i and geeta wore saree.i played the ghost Elvira, geeta was Ruth and Rachel played Charles. I wasn’t satisfied with this performance because when we practiced , we really acted very well but on the day we were so nervous that we kind of screwed up some part. We were the first to perform,cant help it lah!but then again I love our concept and costume. Minor performances has finally ended and now I am looking forward for the major performance.we hope to give an excellent performance.let’s see what happens…..
Tribal dance was awesome!!! Though we had some trouble through out the practice, we had fun on that day! Our group was the only group that did wedding ceremony. It was about a boy, Luma-Luma, who becomes a man and is ready to get married. So he is introduced to Lupu-Lupu and prepared for the wedding with spiritual blessing. During the wedding ceremony, Luma-Luma is asked to kiss the bride. When he opens the veil he was shock to see the bride ugly! He tried to run away but he was brought back and he regrets his decision. Pn. Ju liked the story and we hope that the others liked it too. What went wrong with the performance is that our voice was muffled and they could not hear us clearly and our instruments were not loud enough either. But I guess besides that it was ok. I am satisfied with what my group has done so I guess it was great for us. We had fun painting ourselves red and after the performance we had a ‘shower’ in the rain so it was an awesome day for us.
For me I think Deepa’s group was good. I liked their out fit and I really enjoyed Lee Siam’s group. Their story was awesome. I just did not like one thing through out the whole performance which was Priya’s group. Its not about their performance but ONE particular thing about the attire. The “anklet” which ALL of them were wearing. I felt like it was a disrespect for the Indians as the “anklet” is only to be worn after doing some rituals. I’m not just saying this without any proof. I did some research with my friends who are bharatham dancers. What I came to know is that, the “anklet” has its respect and in order to be able to wear you will have to go through some rituals and it also involves the Lord Nadarajah. So it is a disrespect to use it if you do not have the right to wear it especially when it involves religion, Hinduism. The worst part is they use it for TRIBAL dance. Something very sacred is misused. Even to place the “anklet”, they do not simply place it where ever they want, therefore it is place in the ALTAR with the Gods.
Blithe Spirit was a bit challenging and it was also a good practice for us. challenging in the sense of memorising the script and coming up with our own interpretation of the story and its a good practice because it could help us with our major play (memorizing the script). different group had different interpretation. nallini, geeta and i teamed up together. i was charles, geeta was ruth and nallini was elvira. we kind of "indianised" the play, so we changed the name o bit of course. my name was pronounced as "Charr- Les", ruth became ruthemani and elvira became elvira ponnuma. our interpretation was pretty much like most of the groups interpretation.
i have always liked lee siam's performance, therefore i have to say that her group pulled it off again. hats of to her. that was really great. the other one is that, i like linda's performance. she could really act. for me, i felt that she was really into her character as ruth. i also like agnes' performance especially the last bit. that was awsome. bravo to agnes, linda and lee siam's group. bravo..
Dialogue
After monologue, we had another task which is dialogue. Dialogue is something common that takes place in our daily lives. Yet when it comes to performing in front of people, it can make you nervous. I was extremely nervous. Thanks to my friend, I was able to do my dialogue. My partner for this task was Shamini. We chose to do about misunderstanding between a mother and a daughter. I was the mother and Shamini was the really irritating daughter. She really was so irritating that at one point during the dialogue I felt like slapping her. Pn Ju said we were ok but there is some parts that we ha to put more effort.
We were very confused at first when we were given the task on sound story. We came up with a few stories but end up in failure. This is because not all related sound was able to produce. Later on, we sat and rethink the story. Our main theme was about a pregnant lady giving birth at the road side. The setting was in a jungle and at night. We produced a few insects’ sounds and the howling of the dogs to show the night mode. After that, we carry on with the sound of a few dogs attacking a person. Soon later, the audience will listen to a woman’s cry indicates that she is giving birth. We put a lot of effort to come up with this story. Every of us were equally given a role. I really enjoy working for this task. It was a very different experience for me.
We took only a few days to practice for rhythm and movement. When we were given the task we took about 4 days to select the song itself. We came up with the idea of the costume even before selecting our songs. For this task, we chose 3 songs since we were suppose to perform for 10 to 15 minutes. Or first song was a tamil song ‘Papalapappa’, followed by a slow beat song ‘Truth Hurts’ by Addictive; and ‘Pon de replay’ by Rihanna. The first song was a fast beat song. A few of our group members was not able to catch up with the steps, but after a number of practices everyone was able to dance for the song. Our second song was easier to dance as the beat is slow and our movement was according to the beat. The last song was a medium beat song. We came up with a few steps of our own and some form the video clip for this song. We practice day and night for this task but were unlucky as one of our group member; Rachel was injured a few hours before the performance. We all were panic because doctor does not allow her to move or even walk a lot for a week. I can never forget this task because we had to change all our steps and positions within an hour. This task had shown us the value of friendship. We all were very upset when one of our group members was not with us. Yet, we were motivated to prove the best of our group.
Tribal dance
Our sixth task was the most that I liked. It is tribal dance. We had a lot of problem during the tribal dance but then I think Pn Ju liked our story very much. It was about a wedding ceremony between Luma-Luma and Lupu-Lupu. The story was interesting but then what went wrong on that day was that it was raining cats and dogs therefore our voices were not heard and our instruments were not loud enough. But I think my group did a good job. I really enjoyed Deepa’s groupo. They were so funny and on that day it seem that they were the coca-colas ambassadors (guys it is a compliment..). They were really cute and their costumes were very attractive. I liked Simo’s group also because they actually carried Zuwariyah using a tree which they “stole from KC” (hehehe). Overall all the performance was interesting..
Blithe Spirit
The final task was very challenging because all this while we create our own dialogues and eventhough we forget it does not matters because nobody knows. But then in this task we were all given the same dialogues and have to memorize it and perform it in groups of three. I was with Shamini and Azliza. We all did practice and were ready to perform. We started off with song before going to our dialogues. Then halfway through Shamini just forgot her dialogue and became nervous. I had to cool her down and Pn ju gave us another chance. Thanks to Pn Ju. Then the second time we did all perfectly but then it was not as what we had practiced earlier. But then Pn Ju told that she liked our starting very much and we could have done better. I really liked Lee Siam’s performance. She was really good. Other groups were also very good. Everybody had their own interpretations about the dialogue..
Blithe Spirit
The final task was very challenging because all this while we create our own dialogues and eventhough we forget it does not matters because nobody knows. But then in this task we were all given the same dialogues and have to memorize it and perform it in groups of three. I was with Shamini and Azliza. We all did practice and were ready to perform. We started off with song before going to our dialogues. Then halfway through Shamini just forgot her dialogue and became nervous. I had to cool her down and Pn ju gave us another chance. Thanks to Pn Ju. Then the second time we did all perfectly but then it was not as what we had practiced earlier. But then Pn Ju told that she liked our starting very much and we could have done better. I really liked Lee Siam’s performance. She was really good. Other groups were also very good. Everybody had their own interpretations about the dialogue..
I had a tough time for monologue especially to choose the situation. After a few brainstorming I decided to do my monologue as a pregnant girl. I place myself as a teenage girl cheated by my boyfriend. I was confused and extremely disappointed. I also had no one to help me as I decided to commit suicide. It was a very different experience for me. I had to analyze on a pregnant lady’s movement to act out this role. Yet on the performance day I had difficulties to follow exactly a pregnant role. I used a few props to help me with my monologue. I inserted a cloth into my dress so that my stomach will bulge out and I will look pregnant. I also used tablets and knife as a prop to commit suicide at the end of my monologue. It was a very different feeling because I could empathy the role I was acting out. I had a chance to feel the pain a girl goes through when she is cheated by her beloved.
I did my dialogue with my close friend, Nallini. We had a great time working together. Earlier we plan to act like sisters who fight for the same guy, but later on we change the plan. I play the role of Sanjay, a disloyal husband. I had affair with another woman. Nallini whereas play the role of a wife being a victim of her unfaithful husband. She found out about the affair and se confront Sanjay about it. At first Sanjay tend to deny the truth but later he admits his fault and leave Nallini to decide about their relationship. We included a sentimental background song to appeal the sad mode of the situation. I enjoyed this task because it was interesting. I had a great time working with my partner. She was very helpful. We had a great time posing for our pictures especially. It was very funny to see myself with moustache. Anyway I really felt a man’s character when I play the role.
For our final minor performance, we had to perform a dialogue from Blithe Spirit. Everyone thought it was going to be so easy, so did I for that matter but how surprised we were. I thought that a ready made script was easy to follow but it is actually way more difficult than a self- written script. For one thing, we have to really use our imaginations and put ourselves in the characters shoes, which is not easy at all. I chose Elvira because one, her lines were few and two I really liked Eva Longoria in Over Her Dead Body. I was really sick but I did the best I could. I tried creating expressions when Elvira heard or said something but I found it a little difficult as I could not really get into the character. We were really nervous but we did the best we could. I lost my concentration halfway towards the end and said my line too soon. It was a little embarrassing but not as embarrassing as Lee getting the names mixed up. I have to admit that this was the scariest minor performance because it is the closest to the real major performance, which is not too far away. My voice projection is still not working out for me and neither are my expressions. Teaching and acting is linked they say, so looks like I have to look for another career. Oh and I need to work on my space. So many things so little time, all part of the game.
after so many times practicing for tribal dance, we performed it in front of you on last 27 august. personally, i was happy doing that performance and quite satisfied with our dance. that performance would be more enjoyable and interesting if we had a very good music sound. yes, we had the sound but it is not loud enough.consequently, it doesn't give sense to the audiences.
i like our performance in term of steps, story, and of course our masks. our story is about celebrating the birth..
i love my masks so much! i like the pattern and the combination of colours of the mask.
one of my group members cannot performed on that day because she got migraine and was on MC. we knew that she was not feeling well a day before the performance. so, we tried to have two sets of dancing in case for her absent. may be that was a reason why one of my group members was confused during the performance and she forgot her step . as overall, i think we did it not so bad and congrats to all my group members for the commitments given..
This week, we are going to memorize a script provided by Pn .Juridah. Therefore, I formed a group of three for this assignment. My friends and me had practiced for this task and performed it on last Sunday. However, when we performed it, I was quite disappointed with myself because I forgot the script and my friends were not serious when acting her role. I was quite worrying for our major performance, as Pn. Juridah has warned us to be careful and pay attention for the major performance in future. I hope I can overcome this problem and pay more attention and be careful during the major performance.
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Sound Story
Our first minor performance is to create a story using sound only. We can only produce the sound only from articulation and vocal cord it cannot come from any forms whether sounds from hands movements or any parts of body. At first, we decided to make a story about war because we think that story will produce interesting and variety sound. Then we create the story line for our sound story. But then after that, we changed our mind and we have done a story about a man who has been chased by a tiger in the jungle. We have created all kind of animal sound that we think most probably were in the jungle. For example there is a sound of crow, wolf, tiger of course and others. Beside that, our task is not only created a sound story but we also have to guess what other’s group performs, what are their story and in order to guess that, we have to turn around and not looking to the group that perform. I think this activity is really exciting and it really suitable to use in the classroom.
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Rhythm and Movement
Our second assignment was rhythm and movement. For rhythm and movement we were asked to perform a dance for 10 to 15 minutes. We had to choreograph a dance movement according to the music (rhythm) that we choose. The dance should be something that portrayed our group’s identity. We have chosen to do something different with the music because we want to mix or combine the robotic sound with the ordinary song. So, we have decided to use Malam Pesta Muda Mudi, senggol-senggolan, cubit-cubitan and one Indian song. This task was a challenging one for me because I am not good at dancing. I still tried my best to dance. Thanks to the other members of
Enjit² Semut Production who has helped me a lot. The step was created by all of the group members. We took days to find the right step that suitable with our song and finally we manage to perform the dance. On the performance day, we were quite shocked because we were the first group that has been calling to perform (because we thought we were the last one). All of us felt so nervous. But when we heard our others classmate give us a cheers, scream at us, give a hand to us, I think we have done quite a good job. This will be one of the memorable moments in my life because I never dance before. This kind of activity can be use in the classroom because this can be a medium for students to show the creativity in learning.
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Scultor and Sculpture
Our third minor performance is 'sculptor and sculpture'. We are asked to decide the material, the song and the type of sculpture that we are going to create. Doing the sculpture and being a sculptor not as easy as we see. We need to make expression towards others and must have communication to generate good sculpture and sculptor performance. The facial expression and body posture will be important element in doing this task because the audience will watch us and evaluate us. We are required to choose a sculptor and the lucky one is Ira. I think she has done a good job in doing this task because she has to create and mould us until we become the sculpture that we planned. The others who play as the object of sculpture also doing a good job. We chosen to sculpture a beach volleyball team and we manage to do it.
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Monologue
Our fourth minor performance is monologue. This is an individual task and I have to do it alone. For this task, I have chosen to monologue about a confused teenager. It is about teenager who confused with her life. I took 2 days to remember the script and that was my big mistake in doing my minor performance. On the performance day, I was failed to do my monologue properly because I am a very bad actor on the day. This is because the audience especially Pn.Juridah can see clearly that I am not really acting because it is so obvious that I am memorised the script. I really regret with what has happen to me but it is something that already happened and I must proceed and go on with my next minor performance which is dialogue.
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Dialogue
Our fifth minor performance is dialogue. This is a pair work and I have chosen Marlisa who is one of the Enjit² Semut Production members to be my partner. We have chosen a dialogue entitle wives. We are sharing the same husband the scene is mainly focus on the conflict happened between the 2 wives. I am so happy doing this task because this is the first time I’m doing acting with Marlisa. We really don’t know either we can do it or not but we promise to each other to do our best. After finished doing the script, I told Marlisa that we cannot really depend on the script. Try not to memorise the script but more to understand the script because I don’t want the same thing happens to me like already happened during my monologue. We practice it before the performance and during the big day, we were able to do it. I felt so happy
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Tribal Dance
Our sixth minor performance is tribal dance. I think this is the tasks that really challenge us. It cost a lot of time, energy and money (of course it is nothing compares to our major performance later). The first thing that we have done is to make a mask for the dance. Pn.Juridah has taught us how to do it and it takes about 3 days to finish all the mask for the group members (complete with colouring). Then, we download the video from the internet to see a costume and step on tribal dance. After find a suitable costume, we move on to the step. We find it is so hard to follow the step from the video so we have decided to take a bit step from it and create our own tribal step. After having the story line of the dance, we start collect material for the costume. Mostly, we use leaves as our costume. Beside that, we also used bamboo, wood and coconut stuff as the props of the dance. I’m really enjoyed doing the tribal dance because I think we teslian are one of the bravest people in the world. Not all people dare to wear that costume, wear the masks that look really horrified, colouring their bodies (like phantom) in front of other people. We are so good. I am so proud of all of us. Tribal dance is the most tasks that I enjoyed because it really gave me a new experience.
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Scene from Blythe Spirit
Our last minor performance is a scene from Blythe spirit. In this task, we have to act in one of scene in Blythe spirit by Noel Coward. The scene involves 3 characters. So, I have chosen Marlisa and Ira to act with me in this performance. I have chosen to be Elvira, Marlisa as Ruth and Ira play as Charles. As Elvira, I only have 5 lines in the script. It is quite easy for me to memorise the script but my character was mainly on how to show an emotion as a ghost. Elvira was jealous with Ruth because she is no longer with Charles and I have to do my best to show Elvira’s part in the scene. Many might say that it is easy to be Elvira but as for me, it is also a challenge character. Marlisa and Ira have done a good job. Lis manage to remember all the dialogue and Pn.Juridah also give a compliment on her (because she manages to cover when Ira suddenly lost her line). I also like the costume of this task. I never wear a skirt before this but as Elvira, Lis and Ira have forced me to wear a white skirt (Lis lend me her skirt hehehe..) in order to really look as a ghost. The make up that done by Ira also made me look like a ghost. I rally appreciate and enjoyed this experience.
Tribal Dance…
Let’s dance..Yeah!! Let’s have masquerade party! Hehe.. It is time to enjoy our performance. It is different this time. Tribal dance is not a straight forward dance, but it is more into story-telling. From the movements in the story, we interpret them into the meanings so that the story can develop. Everybody must wear masks according to the story and in order to represent the characters. Our group chose to create a story of three women and three men. It is an ancient story since all of us speak in the same language called “hohaka” language. So everybody in the group must speak in “hohaka” language. I was being a woman in that dance, and I have to wear coconut leaves as skirts, and also necklace by recycle items. Our story begins when three women dance together, then they saw flower bush not far from them. So they go to the bush to take some flowers. All of a sudden, three men came and move around the women. All of the men actually got attracted to one of the women there. So they fight among themselves to get that woman. Finally one of the men win, and the woman crown him as her choice. I actually enjoyed the practice, but when the performance comes, everything was not in proper order. It was unexpected that we missed some of the steps, so the result, our dance became shorter. I was a little bit frustrated, but I have to accept it. All of us had practice hard and had performed well. Congratulation BETTY & LULU!!
Script..
Phew.. Finally, this is our last minor performance. We were assigned to memorize the short script and perform it in our creativity. Each group must consist of three people because the scripts given are all same, and has three characters: Charles, Elvira and Ruth. I was the ghost, Elvira. In our performance, I was the mocking ghost who wanted Charles’ attention even though I was dead already. Even though the script is short, I could not memorize it very well. When the performance is on, I was still thinking, “What is the line after this?” So the acting became not so real. I was partially into character, not with all my heart. Maybe because of nervousness, I tend to be numb. My act was not going smoothly, but it was all done. I have to satisfy it and I’ll improve it from time to time. All those minor performances are beneficial to us in teaching us to practice in voice projection. Besides, we are able to know what are our weaknesses in performing the plays.
Script..
Phew.. Finally, this is our last minor performance. We were assigned to memorize the short script and perform it in our creativity. Each group must consist of three people because the scripts given are all same, and has three characters: Charles, Elvira and Ruth. I was the ghost, Elvira. In our performance, I was the mocking ghost who wanted Charles’ attention even though I was dead already. Even though the script is short, I could not memorize it very well. When the performance is on, I was still thinking, “What is the line after this?” So the acting became not so real. I was partially into character, not with all my heart. Maybe because of nervousness, I tend to be numb. My act was not going smoothly, but it was all done. I have to satisfy it and I’ll improve it from time to time. All those minor performances are beneficial to us in teaching us to practice in voice projection. Besides, we are able to know what are our weaknesses in performing the plays.
We were assigned to memorize one page script consist of three characters, Charles, Elvira and Ruth. The scripts given are all same, but we can modify it according to our creativity and we also have to work on our own costumes. I team up with Hani and Ina for this assignment. We did a draw to determine who will act as whom few days after we got the assignment and I am the late wife of Charles, Elvira The Ghost. I have only five lines in this play. A play is about sequence of lines of characters. The problem we have in this assignment was everybody was busy memorizing their script; not fully concentrated on the story line itself. Facial expression became a problem to me as it is hard to look right to my friend face without smiling during the play. I did tried my best by constantly reminded myself that I am the supposed to be jealous wife ghost,Elvira.It did worked halfway, but errors started to occur when each of us starts to forget lines. In my case, even though I only have five lines, I forgot when I supposed to say my lines. It is bad, and I am very disappointed with myself.
However, this assignment is good in a way to determine how much we have prepared ourself in order to present our major play in our final.
Sound Story
Our 1st task for the minor performance was Sound Story where we have to make sounds by just using our mouth. It is quite a unique activity as me myself never thought of this idea. My group chooses to make sounds based on a story where a girl is lost in a jungle. There are sounds of animals such as owl, death crow, and many more. We also produced the sound of she is running to find a safe place, and then she screamed because there is a tiger wanted to eat her. Finally, the alarm is ringing, which means that is only her dream so she released a sigh. I really enjoy this activity.
Rhythm & Movement
For the 2nd task, we were asked to perform a dance where we have to make suitable movements based on the rhythm or song chosen. Our group chooses to perform a dance using the song “Malam Pesta Muda-Mudi” which is an agogo category, and a Hindustan song. At the beginning of our performance, we enter the stage by make movements like marching. After that, we move our body like a robot. Then comes the real dance of us. For the closing, we use the beginning of the song “Senggol-senggolan Cubit-cubitan” by Mas Idayu to leaves the stage. All of us were really enjoyed our performance even though some of us including myself had forgot some steps. However, we still manage to laugh! Haha.. it’s really fun! Then believe it or not, I discovered that I like dancing!
Sculptor & Sculpture
For the 3rd task, we were asked to do a performance entitled “Sculptor & Sculpture”. At first, I was quite blur with this task. I don’t really understand what we have to do. After given some explanation by one of my group member, then only I understand. We decided to choose Ira as the Sculptor, and she had to build 6 people (Sculpture made of clay) playing beach volley ball. During that time, the sound of waves can be heard. It is a lil bit painful when we can’t move (with my hand facing upward like I wanted to block the ball). I also had to control myself so that I won’t laugh! It’s quite funny to look at my friend’s facial expression at that time!
Monologue
Monologue! It means we have to talk alone! Oh no! I’m quite nervous when given this task because I have to talk in front of people alone! For the previous tasks, we did it in a group so it is ok for me. But for this time, it’s quite challenging because it should be done individually. But I don’t have any option. Whether I like it or not, I have to perform. My title was “Only Me”. This monologue is about me went to a singing audition. However, I was rejected! I was so angry because I believe that I am the best singer. So what I do was I say something bad about the juries as they are blind because can’t see my
Monologue
Monologue! It means we have to talk alone! Oh no! I’m quite nervous when given this task because I have to talk in front of people alone! For the previous tasks, we did it in a group so it is ok for me. But for this time, it’s quite challenging because it should be done individually. But I don’t have any option. Whether I like it or not, I have to perform. My title was “Only Me”. This monologue is about me went to a singing audition. However, I was rejected! I was so angry because I believe that I am the best singer. So what I do was I say something bad about the juries as they are blind because can’t see my talent. Thank god, even though I forgot some of the lines, I succeed done this task! Pn. Ju said that I have not enough expression and I do take this comment to improve myself for the next time.
Dialogue
This time around, I’m doing this task with my friend, Ain. It is also quite challenging for me because based on our previous experiences, we always laugh without any reason when doing presentation or perform together. I know it sounds weird, but it’s the truth! However, we still want to proceed as a partner and we tried our best to not laugh for this time. Our dialogue is about me, married to Ain’s husband. Ain got angry and she accuses me that I only wanted his money. So I tried to defense myself by blaming her. At one moment, I really forgot my script so at first, I just silent but then, I came out with new lines. Then ain also replied with her own dialogue but I still can’t remember my dialogue! Then we just looking at each other and then as usual, we laughed! People thought we had finished our performance so they clapped their hand but then Ain said, “Belum habis lagi laa…” hahaha.. I wished that Pn. Ju will give us second chance to performe once again, but she refused. So, it’s done!
Tribal Dance
Tribal Dance. This is the 2nd last task for this course and I don’t know how should I feel. I am quite tired because there are a lot of things should be done in order to complete this task. We have to make the mask, props, musical instrument, costume and many more. So it requires a lot of time to finish all these things. It began with making mask, and I like this part! I really enjoy it maybe because it is like doing a facial treatment! Haha. Then we have to decorate our mask and I’m not expert in this. Later, we find natural based items for the costumes, music, and props. The last thing we do is create the steps for the dance. Our story is about the villagers are waiting for the hunters to came back bring along the came out. It’s worthy when they came back with a huge frog! Then all the villagers dance to celebrate their home coming. I felt really relieved when this task is finished.
A scene from Blythe Spirit
For this final minor performance, we were asked to act out a scene from Blythe Spirit. First of all we had to memorize the script then analyze it. We had to consider how the intonations of the lines should be based on the meaning that the characters tried to convey. I played roll as Ruth, Charles’s wife. I do enjoy this performance as it is just a short scene and we have to deal most on facial expressions and intonations. We managed to finish this task even though some of the lines were deleted. haha
the blithe spirit
as for this one, i had the most enjoyable character so far. i played the part as the elvira, the ghost who kept hunting the ex husband and the new wife, ruth. although it was enjoyable, but it was rather challenging as we had to memorise a short script. mine was rather short but i was told to put more facial expressions and feelings into the character.
to play our parts effectively, we came up with the costume of Victorian style. as a typical ghost, i wore everything in white and successfully did a make over of myself as a ghost. and yes, i REALLY looked like a living ghost.
Alhamdullillah we managed to memorised our scripts and played our parts very well.*clap clap*
Our next minor performance was dialogue…and for this task, it is a pair work activity. My partner was Ainil and we came out with a story entitled ‘Psycho Therapy’. This is a story about two girls who being checked into a mental hospital for trying to kill themselves. They got mental problems. One day, they discover the truth that will reveal everything…This performance shows the wild and crazy side of us. It contained conflict within individual. During the performance, I felt less nervous compared to monologue. Overall, I think I’ve already do my best for this performance.
Our third minor performance was a group work too. It was sculpture and sculpting. We came up with the idea of five different emotions in bharanatyam. Rachel played the role of the sculptor. Jayshri did the happy pose. Shamini did the angry pose. Nallini did the sad pose. Geeta did the shy pose. Finally I did the scared pose. We worked hard because we want to share bharanatyam’s emotonizing with the whole class. I think we did a great job. However we had a difficult time searching for the right background music. Finally we managed to find it. We used two different songs. The first time we tried to practice, we ended up doing it too fast, and then our hands and legs started to ache. We started to get used to it as we did further. This activity was simple to be seemed but it requires concentration and team-work as well. I really have to admit that I had never considered this type of activity for classes I will have to teach in future.
Fourth performance was announced by Fai. I got the shock of my life! Personal performance? Monologue??? I started to tremble because I seriously hate to present and perform actually. If it is in groups, I don’t mind because there are people with me. But now, alone????
That was a recap of my mental situation last week… hehehe, I was so stupid. I was so scared of something that I can really do. I thought for so long and yet I wasn’t able to come up with an idea. Finally, my mother saved me by giving me my story. My story is about a teacher and her husband. On the day of her anniversary, she was required by the headmaster to arrange an ad-hoc award function by night. She called her husband and told him but the husband started to scold her and the whole crisis started. Eventhough the husband refused to accept her reason for going to be late, she continues with the function. That’s her work and her passion. Teaching is her profession.
Puan ju said that I was too long on the phone. That caused me with inability to deliver my expressions towards the audience. I learnt my lesson for not preparing myself with a script.
This time I paired up with auni. We came up an idea of two strangers bumping on each other. One apologizes and the other tries to take control by being furious. The rich and elegant lady scolds and belittles the girl which caused coffee on her dress. The girl tries to compensate but the lady wasn’t coming down. Then they finally agreed to call the girl’s parents to collect the money as compensation. As the lady dials the number of father, she finds out that the father of the girl is her boss. Aaaarrrrggghhh!!! The boss’s daughter! Then she slowly slips away from the conversation.
Auni was the lady and I played the role of the girl. We were scared that we won’t be able to deliver the best but we did it. Puan ju said that we have to work on our voice projection. Eventhough I was prepared with my script this time, I still made mistakes. I am learning a lot of stuffs through these activities. Hopefully I will be able to deliver my best during our play.
Response on Rhythm and Movement…
This activity reminds me when I was a little kid. Dancing?? I love it…………when I was a kid….but, not now because I feel uncomfortable to dance in front of people. But, what to do…assignment must be completed.. Actually, I don’t really know how to create the steps which suit the melody..
This is a tough performance since my team mates and I have to practice almost everyday to get familiar with all those movement. My group came up with a chicky cupid dance. We named the dance with that name because we are doing chicken dance and we take Stupid Cupid song by Mandy Moore as the melody. This song sounds cute and catchy.
We started the performance with the Pink Panther music, where we make it as the intro. Then, followed by chicken dance and then the last song, Stupid Cupid. I think, we did our best in costume where every group member wears the pink hat. And one of my group member, Aini acts as the center. She wears the Cupid wing… Huhuhu.. then, all of us have a fake big mole under our lips, at right…huhuhu, I like it so much.
Overall, I found this activity is so interesting..
Response on Rhythm and Movement….
Rhythm and Movement…. Hurm, nice to hear but very hard to do. Starting from the part of selecting the songs, it was not so easy. So many songs we listed in the selection list e.g: Backstreet Boys, N’Sync, Pussycat Dolls and so many more.
We came out with the song that we think very suits to our concept; Stupid Cupid by Mandy Moore, Pink Panther theme song as the introduction and another song that we use is Chicken Dance. . We named the dance with because we are doing chicken dance and we take Stupid Cupid song by Mandy Moore as the melody. This song sounds cute and catchy.
I think, we did our best in costume where every group members wear the pink hat. Then, we make a big fake mole under our lips at the right.
For the steps, we agreed to majority. As none of us are familiar with dancing, it’s quite hard actually to create the steps. So, we decided to make just the simple steps but enjoyable. My group came up with a Chicky Cupid Dance. I still remember that day when I have to wear a wing…huh, I found it really hard for me to move with that wing. Anyway, I enjoy our performance.
Response on Sculpture and Sculptor
Sculpture and sculptor is the third minor performance that I and all my friends did. At first, we decided who was going to be the sculptor and the sculptures. Then, after it, we decided the theme of the performance. We came up with the situation at the Japanese Restaurant.
On the day, I become the sculpture indicating the chef who was cooking. I found it really hard for me to just ignore all my members that were looking at us at that time. I can’t smile and even move and the only thing that I can do was just standing and doing the facial expression based on the situation.
When, the sculptor had finished her work, now is the time for my friends to guest the situation. In the meanwhile, all of us, I mean the sculptures were not allowed to move until they can give the right situation.
I agreed with Pn.Ju when she said that we supposed not to look at others. It is simply because it can distract us and we will lose our focus. That is the why we feel like smiling and laughing.
Response on Sculpture and Sculptor
That was the performance that we did for our third week in this course. After we finished our Chicky Cupid Dance on the previous week, there comes another task and we have to practice again. No matter what, I just enjoy the performance.
In this performance, we have to pretend that we are the sculpture and one of us was going to be the sculptor. My role? Of course I was one of the sculptures. Our group came up with the situation at the Japanese Restaurant. Imah was the sculptor, Fara, Nadia and me was the customer, Aini; the restaurant chef while Simo and Dalila were the waitress.
For me, all I need is concentration; not to laugh or smile or even move before the sculptor finished her work and before the situation can be guest by all my members. I found that this task was quite simple compared to Rhythm and Movement.
Three has finished, but there are a lot more performances after this. Monologue? I hope I can give my best since this is the real challenge where I have to work on my own without help. I will try my best. See you on the next performance…….
Response on Monologue
Acting? I like it and I have a little experience on it. But, I don’t say that monologue is just a very simple thing to do after years. At first, I don’t have any idea about the role to be performed, or any story line. I keep thinking and thinking again until I got one good idea: being a crazy woman. I really like this character.
“Live her life under depression, her mind in chaotic situation. Yah is mentally ill because of her traumatic past. She has been raped and since that day, the dark shadow of the guy keeps haunting her forever”. That is the story line.
On the day, I tried to give the best of me and I think I was quite satisfied. I try to be in the character, Yah, as hard as I can. I just ignored the people, who keep passing the place, foyer DKAP, and I gave my full concentration on the role. I found, it was really interesting to play the role of a crazy woman as I can do any movement that I want without thinking the limitation of it.
Everything is OK for that day and Pn Ju also gave me some comments in order to enhance and minimizing the mistakes for the next performance. Now I want to concentrate on the next task; dialogue performance.
Response on Monologue
It was the most challenging task I’ve ever done. I just don’t know how to explain it: my feeling and …everything. Frankly speaking, I just don’t like acting. But, it doesn’t mean that I hate it, I juz don’t really like it. Starting from the part of thinking and selecting role, I was so blur. The only thing that crosses my mind was: “how la? Can or not? I don’t know how to act…so how can I do it?” negative right?
But, from that negative thinking, there is one person who guides me to look it from the good perspective..who? my room mate of course: Zuwariyah Adi. She helps me a lot in building my self confidence, I really appreciate it.
The day comes, and I play the role as an orphan, Angah, who lives with her grandmother who she called Nenek. Angah took care of her grandmother, who was suffering from Alzheimer while her lifetime. But, after her grandmother’s death, her uncle appears out of nowhere, seems to take all the properties belongs to his late mother, including the house and he chases Angah out of the house.
Now, everything is finished. I really feel relief. Now, the time has come for me to be more confident on me myself. The next task? Dialogue. Let see whether I can do better..
TRIBAL DANCE. TRIBAL DANCE. TRIBAL DANCE. It really disturbed me the first day Pn. Ju mentioned about it. What are we going to do? How to choreograph the steps for the dance? How should the mask look like? These are some of the questions in my mind. Nevertheless, on the day where we supposed to make the mask, I found that it was not as difficult as I thought it would be. It was just that making the mask took long time; I mean we have to do 3 layers of paper with water, then dry it, then put another few layers of paper with glue. Next, we have to colour and decorate it. Even the drying process took days. Never mind, that was okay.
Actually, the thing that really disturbed me was how well I can perform the tribal dance. Being put on the spot was never my favourite thing in life. Even though we were going to be wearing masks during the performance, but the idea of wearing those costumes in front of other people still bothered me. Yet, I tried to do my best. During the performance, I gave my best. Still, perhaps due to the lack of practice, there were things that we need to work on. However, we managed to do it, that is what matters.
So, here came our last minor performance, 'Blithe Spirit'. We have to act out a dialogue. I did it with Ainil and Nurul. Well, we did not have much practice with the dialogue, what more with the setting and the positioning.(actually, the idea of positioning ourselves on stage had never occured in my mind before the performance day:() Anyway, I played the role of Ruth, Ainil as Elvira and Nurul as Charles. During our performance, we had to do it twice. For the first time, Nurul can't help herself but laughed; so we had to do it once again. (luckily, we were given a chance to do it once again) So, for the second time, at first everything was okay. But, in the middle of it, one of us had forgotten her lines. Well, I think the three of us were so panic when that happened. I don't know, I thi-nk there were some lines that we said that were not supposed to be there. Nevertheless, there's no one to be blame on. All of us gave our best. Like what Pn. Ju commented, we never bothered to analyse the story, the setting, or the characters. Well, hopefully all of us can do better in the major performance. Good luck to all of us!!:)
BLITHE SPIRIT
For this performance, I make a trio with Zana (Elvira) and Zila (Ruth). Since there is a character of a male (Charles), it will be me. I am too synonym with the character of a male and I always have to act the character. We practice a day before the performance. And at the day of the performance, I feel nervous and start to forget my line. At the line where Elvira shouted ‘Hurray!’, I actually forgot my line. I’m not sure how I can say ‘Shut up!’ automatically. Then I remember that I still have a sentence where I should say ‘You’re behaving like a guttersnipe.’ But, thanks God, when it’s time for our performance, I can act out my part successfully. But still, we have to make improvements in our performance.
BLITHE SPIRIT
For this performance, I make a trio with Zana (Elvira) and Zila (Ruth). Since there is a character of a male (Charles), it will be me. I am too synonym with the character of a male and I always have to act the character. We practice a day before the performance. And at the day of the performance, I feel nervous and start to forget my line. At the line where Elvira shouted ‘Hurray!’, I actually forgot my line. I’m not sure how I can say ‘Shut up!’ automatically. Then I remember that I still have a sentence where I should say ‘You’re behaving like a guttersnipe.’ But, thanks God, when it’s time for our performance, I can act out my part successfully. But still, we have to make improvements in our performance.
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7th minor performance – Blithe Spirit (7/9/2008)
Finally, we come to our last minor performance. For this performance, we are given a script to memorize. It sounds easy because we no need to come out with our own storyline. However, I discover that it is more challenging compared to self- written script. The whole class will know when you did something wrong.
I played the part as the Elvira, the ghost who kept hunting the ex-husband and his present wife, Ruth. Although my turn of speaking are little and short, I have to put in more work more on my action and facial expression to bring in this character. I’m not satisfy with the performance we did because we did worse than when we practice.
When I go back home, I think of the question that Pn.Ju asked after our performance. What is the relationship between Charles and Elvira and what is the relationship between Charles and Ruth. After thinking, I have this idea of the relationship: I’m a ghost that always disturbing Charles and Ruth. I married Charles when I was very young; I’m not mature and very childish. I love Charles very much and not long after our marriage, I die. About 5 years later, Charles marries another woman who is Ruth, both of them are mature in their age but I’m still remaining in my childish. I’m jealous about their relationship and happy if I make them quarrel. So, I try my best to disturb them and make them unhappy.
I’m glad that we have finished all the minor performance. Now, we have to apply all that we have learn in our major performance.
Tribal dance was the most challenging task that I have done since now because it took a very long time to prepare for it. Firstly, we have to create a mask. To create a mask was quite interesting but we could not spend much time for it because we have to prepare for the dance too. To create a dance was not easy. It was not the usual dance but tribal dance. When Faezah said that we were going to perform in at Canselor College, I was really shocked and I'm sure many of us felt the same. There would be many people watching us. I don't really mind if they are te people that I don't know but here, of course everybody knows. I hoped that the mask would help me from being recognize. During the performance, there were a lot of distraction for example the sound of bus and the rain. lastly, I hope this is the last time I have to do this kind of shameful thing.
our first task for EDU3202 was sound story. we have to create a drama by using only our voice. no vocabulary sounds required, though. at first, we were a little bit puzzled because, hey, how on earth are we going to tell a story without telling it verbally? but then, after a few briefings by faezah, we think we kind of get the picture. so our story for that day's task was about a guy who cheated her girlfriend, but eventually he get caught red handed by his gf. it was so funny since we had a lot of fun that day. everyone was like letting go their talent. i think its because all of us do understand that we have to be sporting. no pressure at all for our group, we are so having much fun that day.
Sculpture & sculptor
This week, we are supposed to do a sculpture by using ourselves. What it means here is that we have to be the material used by the sculptor to sculpt monuments. This is so interesting because other groups need to guess what the sculpture is is all about. Pn. Juridah said that this is a useful practice as we can learn more about posture and gesture. Well, to tell the truth, I kind of like it when I have to be the rock. Our group did a good job in delivering our sculpture. We are supposed to be a bunch of monument indicating people in a hot weather. It’s fun!
Rhythm & movement
Our task for this week is to do a dance performance. This is supposed to give us some way in making our movement interesting and not to do any awkward movement on stage. So, excited as we can be, we selected three songs for our performance. The first song is Hey Ya! by Outkast, Puss In the Boots by Jessica Simpson and Numa Song by O Zone. We did the step together and performed quite well.
Monologue July 30 2008
We were all a bunch of crazy people this week. Seriously. Well, this week, we have to do our own monologue. Hence, in order to make the monologue better, we did the session in the foyer of DKAP. This session stresses more in voice projection, and how far can we talk alone by ourselves in front of everyone else. Easier said than done, even though all of us used to talk alone, it is way much difficult to do so in front of a lot of people. But, we need to do what we need to do. This week, I am a playgirl. Which, even though I think I played my character quite okay, I still need to point out here that I am not a playgirl myself. Through this session, I’ve learn more on how to increase my voice projection and work out more in my pronunciation.
Dialogue August 7, 2008
Last week, we did monologue. This week, we have to perform in pair and work out on a dialogue. This is great. I did my dialogue session with my friend, Fariha. In this week task, my role is a busy woman who wanted to get her hair dryer changed. Fariha, on the other hand, played a role of a lady who works at a customer service counter. Generally, this week session is held in order for us to work on more in our voice projection, gesture and posture and also on our facial expression.
Tribal Dance...Hungga hungga
Wuuhuu...be ready to let loose yourself!!this week, we have to perform in a group as a tribe people.no dialouges are required tthough. all we have to do is to create a tribal dance. this is fun as we have to do the dancing stuff while wearing mask! so, a week before, we did our mask and prepare for the performance day. all and all, pn ju said that we still need to work out more in our voice projection.
To Hell With Elvira!!
last week, i am a ghost..not a scary one,however..hehe..fariha is ruth, and sophia is charles.this week, we've been given a dialogue each one to be rehearsed and memorized. its fun,as we sometimes forget our lines and sometimes we have to remind each other whose lines next..it reminds us that we have to memorize our lines during the theatre performance too..which is longer than this session..wow..scary..
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