Emulating the Surroundings: Indigenous Environs as the Source of Malay Dance

環境的擬真：本土周遭即為馬來舞蹈之源

穆罕 阿尼斯 穆德 諾爾(Mohd Anis Md Nor)

《台灣舞蹈研究》 3期 (2007/06) Pp. 27-42

https://doi.org/10.6303/TDRJ.200706_(3).0002

摘要

馬來人的Alam Melayu（馬來世界）概念在馬來舞蹈文化中體現了風景的實體與情感。Alam作為藝術家知識的提供者，逐漸成為馬來舞蹈創造與詮釋美感及符號的終極來源，其編碼化的象徵是被風格化於舞蹈動作之中，透過口述歷史的記憶，以文本的方式代代傳承，或由書寫文件中解碼之。口述或書寫文學均為關鍵性的敘說，它們持續為本土環境與舞蹈風格的共鳴提供其藝術與創造性詮釋的知識源頭。透過來自馬來世界偏愛微動的舞蹈提示與意象，以Zapin與Inang兩種傳統舞蹈最為突出。本文藉由Kaeppler的術語及分析取徑，發現這兩支舞蹈的結構闡明了其舞蹈形式的建構，乃依據民族－語意學的分類為方法，以示馬來舞蹈與馬來人風格化其地緣環境，亦即Alam，密切交關。

並列摘要

The Malay concept of Alam Melayu (Malay World) embodies the physical and emotional landscapes in the Malay dance culture. Alam as the purveyor of artistic knowledge becomes the ultimate source of creating and interpreting the aesthetics and semiotics in Malay dance where the codified symbols of stylized dance movements are transferred as text from one generation to the other through memories of oral literature or deciphered from written manuscript. Both oral and written literatures are crucial narratives that continue to provide the source of knowledge for the artistic and creative interpretation of indigenous environments, which resonates in sourcing dance styles. Two traditional dance genres, Zapin and Inang, are highlighted through the micro-kinetics of preferred dance motifs and images that are derived from their immediate environs of the Malay world. A structural analysis of these two dances using Kaeppler's terminology and analytical approach explains the construction of each dance form according to ethno-semantic categories as a means to demonstrate the relationship between two Malay dances that are closely intertwined with the Malay people's stylistic affinity for the surrounding world, or Alam.