I just listened a talk by Professor Dr. Mohd Anis Mohd Nor, a Professor of Ethnomusicology and
Ethnochoreology at the University of Malaya's Cultural Centre. He discusses
the concept of hybridity in dance, citing examples found in dances
commonly practiced in Malaysia. His talk highlights the events happening at the Asia Pacific
International Dance Conference 2011, held in conjunction with the
My Dance Festival 2011, which has chosen the theme "Hybridity in Dance:
Researching, Performing and Writing Old and New Genres."
For one thing that I have learned from his talk
"Dance is so crucial in the understanding of what the society is or what the people are"
His work focuses on a kind of Malay traditional dance , which was brought to Malay from middle east since 15th century. This performance is a good hybrid form, which is rejected over since 15th century onward. This tradition came with the Arab traders or the Arab community in Southeast Asia. This Arab is not Arabsia but means the Yemen republic. The diaspora of the Arab traders from Yemen as known to be a major factor in the superior of commercialisation trade and it so convinces the many money, very rich people continued their tradition within the community of the Arab. However, Arabs has been regarded in a common society as be of higher level be respected as people coming from the holy land. The association with the personality society intelligent becomes higher and bigger, in fact it regarded as a special for us in the making of tradition.
The local indigenous populace normally would look at tradition as been exemplar from of district tradition. Now, local indigenous community doesn't really borrow. They are not really copy 100%. In fact, they invented the process of assimilation, more the less syncretic in the way because they added the Arabic style with to existing Malay style and develop their own form, which is quite different from the form what it existed before. That I need to say the local indigenous and influence of foreign tradition came in to Malay and Southeast Asia and give us the new product of life and exist new genres with the multi of repertoire.
"Traditional in Southeast Asia is really hybrid because of the trade round from east and west as is Malaysia today. We had gone global long long time ago that probably brought us Malaysia, Southeast Asian to the front of the global issue far far better than perhaps people are realising the global local issue. It is not just the Arabic, we had Portuguse, Dutch, English and we are also had American influences after the second world war. So that there are many tradition, plus music, dance existance into the theatre, which had come from trought this patry of the world, through the process of assimilation and sycretisation. Finally, the arts are form in hybridity and syncretisation."
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