SIS musical, as its name suggests, it is a once in two years musical show that SIS students act out. As one of my creativity activity, I performed on the opening act of the SIS musical.
The performance was dance to "dangdut", Indonesian traditional music enjoyed by ordinary households. The dance moves are very comical, juxtaposing with the extremely formal outfit that we had. Its aim was to seek laughter of the audience before the act ends, and to embody the traditional culture/music of Indonesia.
This activity impacted me in that I gained skills on dancing on the dangdur music, interpreting and embodying the traditional music of Indonesia, and gained confidence of getting up the stage. I learned a lot about the difficulties in remembering those dance moves becasue i am completely new to those moves thats in the Indonesian culture. In addition to that, I had difficulities in collaborating with ohters to synchronoze our moves as it was a group performace. Those difficulities were solved by large hours of practices.I believe the undertanding for the Indonesian culture i have now is way more compared to what i had before, If i were to volunteer in the same situation in the future, It would be a lot easier as I have the know-how and skills, and I will be aware of the responsibility.
