KUALA LUMPUR, May 9 — Renowned native Mak Yong group, Kumpulan Mak Yong Cahaya Matahari is heading to Singapore for a three-day efficiency.
The group from Terengganu together with their grasp musicians from Kelantan can be entertaining audiences with 5 exhibits over three days at Pesta Raya- Malay Festival of Arts 2024 at The Esplanade Singapore from May 10 to May 12.
The journey is in collaboration with native cultural organisation and NGO Pusaka which can be conducting a particular workshop for Singapore arts and tradition practitioners on the Menghadap Rebab (the opening sequence of a Mak Yong efficiency).
This just isn’t the primary time Pusaka has introduced conventional Malaysian artwork kinds on the prestigious performing arts centre. Previously they’ve carried out related exhibits with completely different artwork kinds together with Ulek Mayang of Terengganu (2014), Kompang Jidor of Johor (2019) and Awang Batil of Perlis (2023).
Mak Yong is a Malay dance-drama custom discovered primarily in Kelantan, Terengganu and the Pattani area of southern Thailand.
It was recognised by Unesco in 2005 as a Masterpiece of the Oral And Intangible Heritage of Humanity.
The conventional artwork kind which encompasses parts of dance, music, performing, singing and storytelling is a folks custom that loved the patronage of the Kelantan Sultanate till the Twenties.
The tales of the Mak Yong principally recount the adventures and destinies of royal-celestial figures, rooted within the mythology of the previous Kelantan-Pattani Sultanates, relationship again to the Srivijaya Empire (Seventh-Thirteenth Century).
The most elaborate sequence in a Mak Yong efficiency is the opening music, Menghadap Rebab throughout which the dancers face east in salutation to the rebab (spiked fiddle) earlier than the primary story unfolds.
Master Mak Yong performer, Abdul Kadir Dollah aka Poksu Kadir, will play Raja Besar in ‘Anak Raja Gondang’. — Picture by Karl Rafiq Nadzarin/Pusaka
Meanwhile the Kumpulan Mak Yong Cahaya Matahari was based by legendary Mak Yong actress Che Ning and has been performing because the Nineteen Sixties.
The group is now helmed by veteran Mak Yong actress Che Siti Dollah who’s additionally the primary custodian of the Mak Yong in her neighborhood.
The performers of this group hint their Mak Yong lineage again seven generations and are dedicated in retaining the Mak Yong custom alive by passing it by means of youthful generations of their neighborhood in Kuala Besut.
