Wednesday, August 12, 2015

ROHANA JALIL DAN NASSIER WAHAB - SITI ZAWIYAH


Dangdut's Wordless Dualism

It was a typical night at Extravaganza like any nights, Annette had already been booked so I did not get her to be my dance partner for that particular evening and should she be free to wiggle with lucky me I would not be able to recognize her for so long without boogieing the mighty dangdut. Wendy was smiling and grinning so. upon seeing Prince because that I got to know later that Prince and me and the dangdut consociation have not emerged for a good few years in Extravaganza! No wonder Wendy was beaming although Prince managed to call her beforehand and to inform her that we were coming and also to ask whether she still was with Extravaganza. Lucky that Prince has their numbers. Miera was short listed to be company for me. A young girl, bubbly and energetic, was eager also and very keen to acquire peculiar steps to the dance that long have been lost but only a few years in fact for reason: veteran dance hostesses leaving the trade. A karaoke room was soon to be available but not immediate that we waited in the open lounge whilst the chamber prior booked be readied. Since it was an open hall Prince took initiative to inform the DJ to play two songs ala karaoke to while the minutes before the comforts of a single singing room arrives. Knowing the tune I like wiggling face to face to, he chose Karisma Cinta - the tone to do the four step with a girl so beautiful. Quickly I took Miera by the hands and gently shoved her onto the dance floor which was the proper floor cum platform but not specifically earmarked for earnest prancing. The lounge was not carpeted but tiled, shining white and romantically slippery and perfect for four stepping. I started the slow steps two to the left, two to the right and swirling soft to bring the dance genre to character but Miera was at lost the first few seconds yet managed to reciprocate the dance cue remarkably well even though she reacted not with the orthodox method of twirling ladies I was so familiar with. Her steps were her own, not taught or trained by older dance girls and ones from a long line of dangdut dancers two score and more years ago. She conjured her own steps real time and instant but synchronized immaculately in tune and in tone, she has talent and natural the aptitude was that it was serene and stunningly lovely. Descartes dualism, I think and I am, could not be more off tangent if innermost the evolved, refreshed and wholesomely overhauled four steps - Miera and myself did salsa to and in the milliseconds of dangdut's nothingness, the entire art and philosophy became meta to go beyond dance and the mundane cum inane. Miera pranced the genre to its beyond plus transcends its beingness to its becoming and more of such such - the four step of lore and yore and of dangdut entirely and absolutely! Hohohohohohoho!