Tantri Muditahawari's FYP: Final Crit FYP 1

1. Overall Ideation

¨In this project I will make a video interactive of Saman dance.
¨Since Saman dance have so many different movement in one dance, so I will take a special movement that show a meaningful message.
¨ I will make people feel like they are one of the dancers in Saman dance formation dancer. Not only feel like that, I will make they feel the message in each movement of Saman dance.

2. Problem Identification

¨How to preserve the meaning of Saman Dance.

¨How to deliver the meaning of Saman Dance to the audience.

3. Chosen Issue
¨I chose the issue of the unity in Saman Dance.

¨Since in Saman Dance is a group dance, Saman dance prioritize the elements of unity and harmony in dance, to look nice and neat.

4. Research Comparison

¨I compare Saman Dance with the group dances in Malaysia.

¨First is India Dance, in India Dance also require the unity, but sometimes they have some movements that they do individually.

¨Second is Chinese Dance. Chinese dance that I chose for my research comparison is Fan Chinese Dance.

¨In this dance, similarly with Saman Dance, because they require the unity, harmony and solidarity.

¨Last but not least, my research comparison about Zapin Malaysia Dance.

¨In Zapin Malaysia Dance, they also require the unity, but mostly they do in couple.