Ali Sukri Dance

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Bride Waves: The Cleft Ikonitas Culture

By Sahrul N

Ali Sukri a dance performance entitled "The bride Waves" is a cultural cleavage through the icons universalised motion. Property in such a way as to form grooves that life is always moving without interruption and to the various meanings of human life. Only through a large plastic sheet, the show is filled with inner conflicts of man, especially men who are stricken by disasters. In this case the tragedy of Aceh became the main inspiration of this show. Civil war is not over yet another disaster comes barely anything left. However, this is all there is silver lining. God seemed not bear to see suffering people of Aceh due to a war that never ended. Lord ask for her hand, and keep him away from the arena of war.

"Bride Waves" clearly implies that the disaster that comes from the sea (read: the tsunami) was so heartbreaking and nature seemed to woo the people to be a hero and placed eternity in heaven with his girlfriend. Plastics which floated like a big wave rocked the singing and mourning the dead. Motion graceful dancers who formed the talking bodies, bodies are meaningful.

Note of the National Performing Arts Festival 2003

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Traditional Indonesian Arts in Discourse Diversity

By Sahrul N

Indonesian territory that is rich with islands and tribes, is also rich with the kinds of traditional arts. Traditional art forms that have been established and is closely related to the strength of tradition is the vitality of art depends on the greatness of the culture and structure of society and culture that supports it. Traditional art (traditional arts) could not be separated from the environment menghidupinya. Repertoire of the show is local people and the mythology that developed in the area concerned. Social attitudes still influenced by supporters of environmental culture, the ancestral beliefs and so forth.

Note Performances "Ladder" Black-White Indonesia

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 Democracy Sued Minangkabau

By Sahrul N

"Listen, tell you the story line in an old mountain trim for duck eggs, long after, from two different sons of my mother's father was born a man named system of the barrel of two men of different minds, people call koto Piliang and body Caniago tiered up, down and sit bertangga sehamparan, sepematang upright like a painting of peace "

Music Performance

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Dzikrullah: Spirit of Islam in Elizar Koto Music 

By  Sahrul N

Talking about human beings and human language talk about language. That is, because of language in this world and many unique and different, then the language of signs and symptoms become most important in life, the main symptoms in human dynamics, and root terpokok in science. Music is one medium of human language, has started to shift the subject of previous issues of nature (kosmosentris), religion (teosentris), and humans (anthropocentric). These three elements become fused in the language of music that would be presented Elizar Koto (the composer) on Sunday on May 4, 2003 in a village called Tanjung Padangpanjang Pitalah Bungo.

Documentary Film

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Minangkabau Ethnicity Dog's Life in Film

By Sahrul N

I've gotten a few inquiries from people outside the Minangkabau ethnic group, such as, "Why do people like to hunt pigs Minang?", "Why Minang people like dogs, but that Minang people of Islam?", "Why pigs should be killed, even though he only lives in the forest? ", and other similar questions with it. At that time I answer it with logic-logic improvise which of course will not satisfy the asker.

Then came the independent film titled A Dog's Life by Zainal "Jay Abi" Abidin, STSI Padangpanjang production which tells of human life (a family) that hunting pigs in Minangkabau. The film which Adi Krishna as his director of photograpy-II is winner of Indonesian Independent Film Festival II (FFII II) in 2003 which was held this SCTV, ironically shows how a pig is more dear peburu dog purchased at a price of millions of rupiah compared with children and his own wife.

Note PAT 2003, STSI Padangpanjang

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Multiculturalism Theatre Indonesia: 

Respecting Diversity

By Sahrul N

Benny Yohannes in his paper says that “multiculturalism in the theater should be understood in principle always be present or absent (absent, present). That culture can never have-Large transcendence or beings, or the origin arkaiknya. For tracking of the origin like that always make us orphans and more orphans. But the range of orphanhood is epistemic sources that were never provided the limit, kefinalan or sequel.”

Benny expresses his thoughts in a seminar PAT 2003. In addition there is also a Azuzan JG Benny from IKJ Jakarta, Sahrul N from STSI Padangpanjang, and Zulkifli of the talk about multiculturalism STSI Padangpanjang Indonesian theater from a different angle. In addition there are also seminars that followed the theater as much as six theater groups consisting of IKJ Jakarta, STSI Bandung, Bandung Prung Theatre, Theatre Literature Unand Padang Padang Theatre IAIN Imam Bonjol, and STSI Padangpanjang as host. All of these events comes from the 15th till May 20th, 2003 at STSI Padangpanjang.

Choreography Performing Susasrita Lora Vianti:

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Three Women's Narrative

By Nasrul Azwar

The show's choreography is long gone, and this paper has also long in the Main Theatre stage Culture Park West Sumatra, some time ago, glowing lights dim and looks worn, swept the middle of stage space. The light soaking a pair of body-shimmy shimmy firmly in motion silek tiger (one of the elements silek tradition in Minangkabau), seem to "speak" with fasihnya about the order and system that prohibits Minangkabau customary tribal marriage. Clearly, the language of choreography Susasrita Lora Vianti on that night showed resistance to the customary system and the Minangkabau matrilineal kinship, which is taboo to marry a fellow tribe (sepersukuan). In a matrilineal kinship system adopted for the Minangkabau culture accommodates only lineage by cord blood of women (mothers). Kinship system and the matrilineal Minangkabau adat was not the first to be "inspiration" for the creators. However, at least, to West Sumatra last five years, this was the first utterance of creativity of a rebellion against the system of matrilineal kinship, Minangkabau staged.

Minang Traditional Art

Indang That Almost Sunk

By Nasrul Azwar

Sun had just shoved his face. Before long, dim light in the center wrapped nagari jejauhan visible from a small mosque which stood upright with age may be the same age that village. People spilled into the flow as if there. Bilal's voice played from the speakers is less manicured.Maghrib entered.

That night, some time ago, the people of Nagari Padang Bintungan, Sabaris Nan District, Kabapaten Padangpariaman, West Sumatra province, around 60 km from the city of Padang-Maghrib has packed the mosque since that is not so big. Community from the nearby village also has seemed to arrive: There is deliberately stopped at lapau (tavern) and some are straight to the mosque. Male-female, old and young, and children, all but one goal: to see the arts baindang.

Performances Theatre Old Track Padang

Starting from the Tribe Dragon Revolution

By Nasrul Azwar

Rulers, politicians, and businessmen like dogs fighting over a bone. "Bones" is the Mount Selako very rich with gold, diamond, copper and others. Bukit Seloka who so coveted that investors located in the township Naga tribe who are at the mercy of government Astinam. Sri Ratu, Astinam state supreme leader, will dominate the hill and make the mining areas on the pretext of development. The servants of Her Majesty, ever since the prime minister to the minister, other ministers, and the House of Representatives (DPR) Astinam state-licker who competed to be "polite" and seduce people with various reasons for the success of the Dragon Tribe mine clearing program.

Performances Theatre Old Track Padang

Ridicule of the Minangkabau

By Nasrul Azwar

I quote Wiratmo Soekito (1984). He wrote, "Every great work is a political play, like the work of Le Mariage de Figaro Beumarchais (1784), which predicts the outbreak of the French Revolution (1789) or works of Chekhov" Vishnyvy Sad "(1904), which predicts the outbreak of the Russian Revolution (1917), or the works of Shaw's Heartbreak Hoese (1919), which predicts the outbreak of World War II (1939). "

Note Padang Size Theatre Performances

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By Nasrul Azwar

Ziarah. 

In a park somewhere. Galibnya a park, he was present as a public space. Social space, space may also be antisocial. Shade trees and flowers are also present in the order and frozen. Fixed benches in the corners of the park. Sometimes the park was very quiet, even vice versa. People stopped to take off all that feels and go: meet and split up. Park is "home" for people who are tired and happy space for pets. Park landscaper also beautiful but melancholy menghidar impossible from him.

Theatrical Performances Sakata Padangpanjang:

Valuable Lessons from the "Lessons"

By Nasrul Azwar

In an article Eugenio Barba and his colleagues entitled Anatomie de L 'Acteur (1985) translated into Indonesian Yudiaryani mentioned: the word "text" before showing the text written or oral, printed or handwritten, it means that knitted together. In this sense, there is no present without a knitted play together without the "text". That is, what is associated with the "text" (knitted) can be interpreted as' dramaturgi'-which means-a drama-eregon work, the appearance of the workings of a behavior in the performance plot. It is difficult to distinguish the approach of dramaturgy, staging is considered to be "directing" a director and what is referred to as "writing" an author. The difference is clearly visible only through the cultivation of theater, through the interpretation of a written text.

Note Performing Teater Noktah Padang

Minangkabau Cultural Commentary of Two Texts

By Nasrul Azwar

Interpretation of the text has become a powerful regional theater director who most absolute. In the area of immense cultural texts, the director of the jungle penetrated the icon, a symbol of cultural and other social bookmarks to be realized in the estimation of space and time in one frame of the stage with creative director accountability.

Note Performances "Ladder" Black-White Community Art Padangpanjang

From Acting to Theatre Conception: An Inherent

By Nasrul Azwar

At the Performing Arts Second Year Arts Council in 2002 which was held in West Sumatra, Experimental Theatre, Faculty of Letters Unand KPDTI comes with a performance entitled "Level", the work and the director Prel T.

At that time, Prel T says, "Level" dealt with the concept of engineering experiments is an aesthetic focused on the show. The whole is dominated by the concept of functional pengadegan. Formation sets in addition to static, dynamic as well. So naturally formed through the formation of sets of scenes. The central performance is a space (not field). Fully utilize a number of levels (in various sizes) as the main property.

Performance Notes Datuk Layau

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Element Without Performing Theater

By Nasrul Azwar

Interpretation of the text has become a powerful regional theater director who most absolute. In the area of immense cultural texts, the director of the jungle penetrated the icon, a symbol of cultural and other social bookmarks to be realized in the estimation of space and time in one frame of the stage with creative director accountability.

Interpretation with the title theater often has a tendency actualization thematic with current conditions. Text cultural (tradition) of the underlying footing and foundation become creative director for the spread of a "historiography" of travel time, say, ever since the emergence of a story with an oral tradition to written tradition until the present moment. Long period or epoch-it-looks stunning in a single framework can dimanpatkan stage with a short duration of the story by theater director. Almost all theater groups in Indonesia do not get out of such patterns and interpretations.

Community Theatre Performing Black-White Padangpanjang

Actor (Not) Everything

By Nasrul Azwar

"Our job waiting, waiting Dogot task. That's it. Stomach that's your business. "

"What's it's just a brain, do not wear belly? What Dogot, your brother did not have the stomach but have a brain? So? You're brothers right? Just as the whistle blew builders, artisans selling tickets and ditch digger. Dogot's brother right? If not why did you close-up ?..."

Piece of text at the top looks mediocre. Nothing strange. Similarly, the text of this article.However, he feels very different when the spirit of play is blown into it. He was flesh and soul. So the theater. Such events theater built from the text that "dead" becomes "live" on stage. And this is what distinguishes the significance between the literary text text view theater.