Dance Camp

This past week has been very exciting and super busy. From learning traditional Malay dances to walking the busy of streets of KL, to camping in the jungle to shopping in Ipoh and visiting one of the most beautiful mosques in Perak, I got to see many parts of Malaysia. First up, dance camp. It was located at Hotel Pelangi in Muar, a royal city of Johor. It was very tiring practicing our routines all day. It was almost as tiring as band camp, but this time it was only for four days so it wasn't too bad. The song that I danced to was Dondang Sayang which means love ballad. It originated in Malacca and is influenced by traditional Portuguese folk music. The type of dance is the Baba Nonya dance which is the term used to describe Chinese immigrants from the late 15th and 16th century in Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia. Baba are the boys and Nonya are the girls. This dance is very graceful and is is danced with a handkerchief always in hand. There were also other dances performed as well such as candle dances, and a dance about crabs. It was  lot of fun to perform and even more fun to see others act like crabs on stage. 

Ready to perform in our traditional Malay clothes