表演, 舞蹈, 艺术 (Thoughts from Rize)

My DVD ordered from Yesasia finally reached today, Its a Region 1 DVD, luckily my laptop can play, if not $$ wasted... Ordered the Documentary film RIZE, which is abt krumping & clowning.. But to my very own surprise, the dvd inspired me not only in hip hop dancing, it inspired me to think abt 表演, 舞蹈, 艺术.

The documentary film touched on the origins of clowning & krumping. Watching the REAL stuff, i realized tt MTV krumping is so commercialized & really runined the spirit of krumping... Krumping was actually abt ppl expressing their anger, emotions, hatred, frustrations etc via some unrehearsed movements. Its all abt culture, its not longer DANCE alone. The setting where krump really originated was in USA, where gang fights, Shootings, drugs are everywhere, Life is hard for these Blacks. They cannot go to dance academy (no ballet, waltz, jazz etc), no $$. And they got no sports (not even american football/ basketball, tt is only possible in the main cities, according to the film la)

Hence everywk, teenagers juz crowd together at some garage or open space, with some music, and u dance..... Got no other activity what..... Give out all the angst & fustrations. Hence everything is every wild & beastly, which the documentary film show some parallel clips of Ancient African/Red Indian?? dance, which really found many similarities. The issue here is tribal.... Which led me to think of more abt the 表演, 舞蹈, 艺术 aspects...

Krumping, as a dance, is v tribal & has 宗教性, which led me to think abt the 乩童 in 庙会, actually we can draw many similarities in these two 表演. And the interesting thing is tt, both coincides with a common theatre theory - Antonin Artaud's Theatre Of Cruelty 残酷剧场. I really find that extremely amazing, each form of performance haf so much in common & all can be classified together under some performance theory.

什么是舞蹈, 什么是表演, 什么是艺术? 有人说舞蹈是通过肢体来表达讯息,情感,剧情等. 真的只是这样吗? 表演,艺术, 舞蹈, 甚至剧场, 四者之间的关系又是怎样的? 其中的微妙关系实在难以清楚明确地刮分.....

而舞蹈更是与宗教有着密切关系. 远古时代,第一个舞蹈应该是巫师吧! 之后,舞蹈也成了战争的附属品, 所以有所谓的"战舞". 当然之后, 舞蹈开始有了娱乐的作用 (宫廷舞,街头戏,勾栏/瓦舍), 但是无可争辩的是舞蹈的最初形态是与宗教有着密切关系. 舞蹈是带有"宗教性"的. 而Krumping 更加有这样的色彩. 看了之后, 我真的对于表演,艺术, 舞蹈, 甚至剧场有另一种体会.

Hence, i pen down this entry.... Its really inspiring... =) It has been a long time since i blogged abt something so enthusiastically....

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NTU Memories

This entry is dedicated to all those whom i haf met in NTU, whether by chance or by fate. Time is Apr 12 2007, graduating soon from NTU, life will be different. Read Weiming's blog, hence got a sudden urge to write something & list down frenz's name juz in case next time old liao will forget...

My most appreciative thanx to all those frenz whom i made in NTU, u all haf an impact in my life in one way or another.. =)

Top 5 - Teddy Lim, Kenneth Tan, Liow Ee Jun, Ou Weiming, myself
Jianwei with his critical comments, Zesi & Cow Lim Junqi with their nonsense on msn everytime, Lynn Tan with her addressing me as 'Da ge' everytime though i really think i dun deserve tt =), Angie Chin with her nice personality & screaming "Zhongyiiiiiiiiiii" when she sees me, Adelene Fong the gan jiong Spider, Gwen, the super tall girl, always making me feel so extremely short when walking beside her, Eliz the super blur girl dying to become like Faye (FIR)......

Vierte Gekijio members; Elynn, Yi meng, Yongshun, Tinghan, Jingxian, Wei Hao, Weichang, myself Thanx for all you all haf done... though our perf : Masquerade was a short performance, which oso turned out to be our only performance, hahaha but i really really really ENJOYED it alot...


Come to think of it, i made really v little frenz compared to many other ppl in Uni.... hmmm, something is wrong with me... Haiz, everytime lidat, CMI..... =(

Anyway thanx every1 for making my life different....

Next portion tribute to memorable events in NTU life, not in accordance of importance;
1) Masquerade perf at Nayang Fine Arts with VG memebers, plus all the Tea House gatherings
2) All Top5 Gatherings
3) Impromptu Taiwan Trip with Weiming & Teddy, tt was really a trip which i enjoyed alot
4) 2D2N trip at Desaru

Next, some gangs which i joined in NTU
1) Forming of Top 5, with Teddy Lim as managing director, wahaha...
2) Vierte Gekijio - 8 members
3) 3x Scorpio gang comprising of me, Weiming, Eliz
4) FIR - Myself, Ang Chih Yeong & Eliz, with Eliz as Faye, CY as guitarist, me as Chen Jian Ning, diaozz right? cos my glasses tinted, and i look more stern.... hahaha

Like v little right? Maybe tt's y my Uni life not eventful enough.... Anyway, now currently cant think of anything more, will edit this entry & update in the future...

Unfinished

I took a bus home from Bishan on Sat, 31 Mar 2007. Was really surprised & shocked to see this layout of the bus. It's an SBS bus 54, and inside the seats layout is like tt.. The whole Bus is being so-called sponsored by Nokia, to be exact, nokia 5300. Even the entertainment on board is something called Music Mobile, and it plays some latest MTVs. As long as u are in the bus, u can activate ur Bluetooth to d/l this song for FREE... Though i dunno issit only exclusive to Nokia Hp users. But this bus layout really stunned me, and in the end, i enjoyed so much, i didnt even alight, i decided to sit all the way till Outram Bus Interchange then walk home from there...

The Bus is really cool sia.. The layout uses a concept of a pub/ bar etc.. Follow the photos, u can see that there is even a design of a table & chair juz like tt in a pub... I, and every1 else who boarded the bus was so amazed and ppl started taking photos with their hp.

Of cos i most extreme la, go every diff corner to take, since im the only one who sit from Interchange to Interchange... Wahaahah.....

Photos from Diff angles, basically i captured the whole bus from front to end compartment... Ppl who visit my blog, hope u all oso find this interesting.... Though i may appear a little stupid...

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