Dancing Crosses Ethnic, Cultural Boundaries – Sakini Mohd Said
24 Saturday Mar 2012
What are generally the challenges faced by professional dancers? What are the barriers they come across? This article focusses on 2 Malay dancers and the questions and issues they faced to be what they are today, in the field of dance.
Photo: Mohd Yunus and Norbaizura Abdul Ghani
Photo courtesy: Sean L iew
2 comments
March 24, 2012 at 4:53 pm
Where wa sthis performance? and the dancers are from? MUsic and dance are the expressions beyond ethnic and race ,,the pure joy can be felt by the heart only..transcendal!!
March 26, 2012 at 6:49 am
Dear Pushpa, the dancers are a Malaysian duo and the performance was in Kuala Lumpur. The article’s focus was how one can go beyond religion and ethnicity, when it comes to classical dance and of course we hope that applies to the realm of classical music as well. – Team Margazhi.org