Essay About My Dance

My country, Malaysia, is known for its rich culture and diversity where its three main races include Malay, Chinese and Indian. Every culture bounds to have their own rituals that demonstrate what they are and one of the most prominent mediums is through dancing. My race is Malay and the traditional Malay dance that I love is called Joget. It gives a lot more emphasize on the hips and feet compared to the hands. Most of the time the feet determines the movement while the hands just compliment the steps. It starts slow, following the beat of the song that is accompanied by traditional musical instruments such as gong, gendang and rebana, which is a Malay tambourine and when the music gradually builds up to a faster beat, the feet movement gets

My elder sister was involved in a lot of school performance when I was at the age of 4 to 6 so I would always watch her practice and I often picked up some moves from her because to me it was the most beautiful form of art I have ever seen. At that age, I already knew that dancing or even simply moving my body to any kind of music makes me instantly happier. The best part of dancing is it allows you to express yourself and learning the choreography makes expressing it a little more structured and refined. I decided to join the dance team and our choreographer was one of our teachers in school who passed down the moves from the days when she was a young performer like us. She would always remind us to dance like we are performing for the King, that although our body is dancing to the fast beat, our hands should stay graceful yet strong. Once I had the grasp of the most important basic aspect of this dance, I was able to improvise some movements and create a dance routine that flows perfectly with the choice of