Protect Our Cultural Heritage!!!!!!!!!!!

Traditional dance – people who knows me will know how much I love dancing, especially traditional dance. Compared to the modern dance, I think traditional dance has more artistic value. The beauty and the grace of each step will mesmerize me. Zapin, Inang, Joget, Makyong are some of the examples of Malay traditional dance that I ever perform during school and college. I really enjoy performing those dances and every time I was on stage, the feeling of proud and satisfaction will come. I really interested in learning more about traditional dance but time has limited my desire. I started enjoying traditional dance when I watched my mom’s collection on video clip of her performances during college. My mom was really great on stage performing her Makyong steps and when she started to work as a teacher, she took the opportunity to teach traditional dance at school. Then, her skills was inherited by my sister who is now is struggling in training her students for national competition in traditional dance. Maybe I also get the heredity from my mom and now I am trying to control my appetite if not I cannot dream to perform anything. Most teenagers nowadays are more interested in modern dance which just knows how to hop and jump. Well, it is important for them to know about traditional dance since it is our cultural heritage which is full with splendor and magnificence. Each state in our country has its own cultural dance and the community should be proud to learn and practice it. For example, in Johor we have Zapin, Pahang with Joget, Kelantan with Makyong, Melaka with Dondang Sayang and Terengganu with Ulik Mayang. Thus, in a hope to protect my cultural heritage, it would be nicer if there is a course of traditional dance in B.Ed TESL program and I will be the first person who registers it. =)