TRADITIONAL MALAYSIAN DANCE WORKSHOP: KUDA KEPANG
Racial Harmony
Performing Arts Club (PAC) is a students’ club in UiTM Johor, Segamat Campus which runs activities such as theater performances, singing, traditional and modern dance, flashmob, busking, bands and hosting on campus. These activities are aiming to help the UiTM students to develop their talents and interpersonal skills such as communication and leadership. In addition to the activities mentioned earlier, PAC also has conducted several community service programs and one of them was done at Kampung Pasir Mandi Temerloh, PahangPAC has the intention to introduce a traditional Malay dance which is to school children. The main reason for this is due to lack of awareness of youngsters nowadays on traditional dance. The “Kuda Kepang” dance was chosen for this purpose. “Kuda Kepang” is originated from Java, Indonesia and was first introduced here in Malaysia in the early 20th century by the Javanese immigrant. This dance is popular in the state of Johor. It is performed by nine to 15 dancers, all garbed in traditional Javanese clothes. The dancers are usually all men, though women dancers are not uncommon these days.
Overview of Issue / Background
Performing Arts Club (PAC) is a students’ club in UiTM Johor, Segamat Campus which runs activities such as theater performances, singing, traditional and modern dance, flashmob, busking, bands and hosting on campus. These activities are aiming to help the UiTM students to develop their talents and interpersonal skills such as communication and leadership. In addition to the activities mentioned earlier, PAC also has conducted several community service programs and one of them was done at Kampung Pasir Mandi Temerloh, Pahang
PAC has the intention to introduce a traditional Malay dance which is to school children. The main reason for this is due to lack of awareness of youngsters nowadays on traditional dance. The “Kuda Kepang” dance was chosen for this purpose. “Kuda Kepang” is originated from Java, Indonesia and was first introduced here in Malaysia in the early 20th century by the Javanese immigrant. This dance is popular in the state of Johor. It is performed by nine to 15 dancers, all garbed in traditional Javanese clothes. The dancers are usually all men, though women dancers are not uncommon these days.
Project Objectives (Vision & Mission)
There several objectives of this workshop from two target group which are the UiTM Johor, Segamat Campus students and the Sekolah Kebangsaan Jenis (T) Ladang Segamat students.
1.1 The objectives of the program for the UiTM Johor, Segamat Campus students are:
1.1.1 To develop soft skills of the student such as interpersonal skills, communication
skills, leadership and social intelligence.
1.1.2 To promote the awareness of traditional dance and culture among the students.
1.1.3 To increase social interaction between races in Malaysia
1.2 The objectives of the program for the Sekolah Kebangsaan Jenis (T) Ladang Segamat students are:
1.2.1 Enable students to gain exposure in braids dancing horses.
1.2.2 Help to improve students' knowledge of the history of horse dance braids.
1.2.3 Promote student Indians to learn and engage with traditional Malay dance.
1.2.4 Students are able to receive and understand the culture of each race with an open heart.
1.2.5 Disclose the difference and the unique culture of each ethnic group.
Project Details (Activities and Tasks)
| Week | Day | Task/ Activites |
1 | 28 & 29 Sept 2017 | Ice Breaking Introduction of Kuda Kepang |
2 | 5 & 6 Oct 2017 | Divide Group Making the ride horses replica |
3 | 12 & 13 Oct 2017 | Making the ride horses replica |
4 | 19 & 20 Oct 2017 | Introduce the steps of kuda kepang dance Making the ride horses replica Fitting costume for dancers |
5 | 26 & 27 Oct 2017 | Practice kuda kepang dance Making the ride horses replica Fitting costume for dancers |
6 | 2 & 3 Nov 2017 | Practice kuda kepang dance Perform at School |
7 | 11 Nov 2017 | Perform at Angsana Johor Bahru / One Segamat |
Expected Project Result & Outcomes
'DELIVERY AND QUALITY GENERATIONS OF ARTS' is a key objective in the implementation of this program. This program is one of the steps taken to uncover the traditional dance (Kuda Kepang) among students in addition to highlighting the spirit of unity among the races. With the involvement of Indian students in this program are expected to form a close relationship between the races. We also hope that this program has received attention and support from various parties to launch the program either directly or indirectly.
Students also can perform in front of the crowd and arrange a performance at the nearest shopping mall to show them in public.
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Project Information
| University name | : | Universiti Teknologi Mara Cawangan Johor Kampus Segamat |
| Project leader name | : | Muhammad Syazwan Bin Mohd Zulbahrin |
Section I
PART A
SECTION I
- Kuda Kepang is a traditional Javanese dance depicting a group of horsemen. Dancers “ride” horses made from woven bamboo and decorated with colourful paints and cloth. Generally, the dance portrays troops riding horses, but another type of Kuda Kepang performance also incorporates trances and magic trick.
- The aim of this workshop is to encourage students of other culture to learn and discover more about the Malaysian traditional dance by joining us in the Traditional Malaysian Dance Workshop: Kuda Kepang. We are working towards the enrichment of knowledge that they do not have to be dancers and we hope for them to appreciate this heritage and learn the history.
- We had one other fund-raising effort to contribute more on our project, which is from Jakel. They provided us with sponsorship for fabric and textile that we used to provide for the dancer’s costume.
- The purpose of this project is to enhance cross-culture knowledge. Our target is to promote our beautiful culture to the world that is beyond ourselves. Based on this idea, we come up with an attempt to teach this traditional dance to other community. One of the difficulties we faced was people’s perception of this dance having a mystical background such as people with low spiritual value can easily being possessed. Besides that, language is another barrier that we faced. The children are Indians and none of them spoke fluent Malay and so we had a difficulty in communicating with them as they don’t clearly understand us. Fortunately, the teachers were always there to help us communicate. However, from our observation, the children had a very enjoyable time and were keen and showed interest and were very excited to learn the dance. Other than that the teachers were also eager for us to make our weekly visit to conduct the workshop. We received calls twice every week asking whether or not we were coming. As for our budget, we have our own treasurer for this project. All the cash in-flow and out-flow was recorded and organized perfectly.
SECTION II
- We, volunteers believe that this Traditional Malaysian Workshop: Kuda Kepang does gives happiness to us, the students from the first time we visited the school up to the end of this project. The short term kind of happiness is for the students and the staff from SJK(T) Ladang Gomali who had first contact with this dance for the first time. From the day we called ad proposed our intention that is to have the school’s students to participate in this project, they were very excited as they get to learn new type of dance from a different culture. From the first meeting, the students were eager to show us the dance that we taught them in the last lesson, what they’ve been practicing it for a week by themselves, and of course we were proud and happy to see how much improvement they’ve made and how they helped each other in order for everyone could catch up the steps of the Kuda Kepang dance. For the long term happiness, we believe, we brought happiness to the Indian students from SJK(T) Ladang Gomali and the community. The students are enable to continue this legacy by teaching the future generations of the school to continue the effort in making Kuda Kepang dance known by society. This shows that this project of promoting culture and art captures the attention of the community and they awareness about Kuda Kepang dance. This project we held really made a difference on how we perceive the world. We never realized how much joy we can share with other people just by sacrificing a bit of our time and energy. Throughout this project, the volunteers developed a solid bond or relationship with the Indian students. They opened up our eyes, that despite the growing issue between races in Malaysia, we can still stand united and live in peace under the same sky, upon the same soil, in one country, Malaysia. The volunteers could not show enough gratitude to Khind for providing us with a platform for us to be able to implement this project with such success plus having the outcome much more than we anticipated.
- Happiness is to be shared. Through the spread of smile even for a little while. As children, we never felt the fun of dancing and moving ourselves to our music. But to see and have other children enjoy that much fun doing so, we felt as if there’s nothing more amusing.
PART B
Budget Template
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Student's Name: MUHAMMAD SYAZWAN BIN MOHD ZULBAHRIN |
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Project Name: TRADITIONAL MALAYSIAN DANCE WORKSHOP : KUDA KEPANG |
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Project Number: PH1722 |
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University/College: UITM SEGAMAT, JOHOR. |
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Project Expenses |
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Items |
Budget |
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Remark |
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Direct Equipment and Supplies |
RM1,000 |
RM2705.60 |
i)Student costume -RM162.50 ii) Accessory -RM318.37 iii)Kuda kepang replica -RM 1699.73 iv) Food & Beverages -RM525 |
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Marketing and Event Support |
RM200 |
RM200.00 |
Bunting & Banner |
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Miscellaneous |
RM2,100 |
RM500.00 |
Hire of Van |
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Total (A) |
RM3,300 |
RM3405.60 |
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*Student expenses shall not exceed 30% of total expenses
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Student Expenses |
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Items |
Budget |
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Remark |
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Travel |
RM350.00 |
RM100.00 |
Petrol |
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Miscellaneous |
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RM100.00 |
Food |
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Total (B) |
RM350.00 |
RM200.00 |
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Grand Total (A +B) |
RM3650.00 |
RM3605.6 |
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