art of Malaysia culture

the graceful steps in dancing the art 

as we all know that malaysia full with lots of races which contain of malay, chinese, indian and others. each of those races have their own art in their culture. basically the old art of malaysian culture more graceful and traditional. where the dance also graceful alongside with the emotionally music which can immediately give the goosebumps feel. this is because of the music made before are more with  appreciation and inspiration 

Kuda Kepang, strong in worship dancing

  

For example, traditional Malay music and performing arts appear to have originated in theKelantan-Pattani region with influences from India, China, Thailand and Indonesia. The music is based around percussion instruments, the most important of which is the gendang (drum). There are at least 14 types of traditional drums. Besides drums, other instruments (some made of shells) include: the rebab (a bowed string instrument), the serunai (a double-reed oboe-like instrument), the seruling (flute), and trumpets. Music is traditionally used for storytelling and celebrating life-cycle events such as harvests.

way of modern dance that influence the heritage 

but music nowadays are slightly different from the previous Malaysian music. we are more to the western and started to forget about our basic root. not to mention that there are less of new generation now in malaysia who know about the traditional dance or even the instrument of their own culture. now more and more new generation are likely to have the interest in learning the new dance from the western than our own traditional culture dance which is more graceful than the new globalize and modernize dance that initially have being put in their mind