The Convergence of Performance Arts: Traditional and Contemporary

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A synergy between traditional and contemporary arts performance for cultural heritage has recently explored as a combination between culture and continuity of learning, particularly Sarawak in East Malaysia. This paper begins from a graduate study that set out to investigate this synergy, deriving, whether traditional performance arts education is relevant within contemporary designing discipline of performance arts. We have observed brief insights into the study’s preliminary approaches of stage design performance schemes as they address the possible relationship and decided to conceptualise by exploring the implications for architectural design decisions that manifest from such a synergy. Analysing the nature of performance stage design, we have found the need for a research based on visual and acoustic approaches. In relation to the idea of the convergence of the performance arts particularly related to sound, space and movement, we have found this conceptualization will create and embrace visual, auditory and environmental spectrum as a single artistic form of performance between traditional and contemporary. At this point we will focus on the centralised stage design from disciplines such as environmental design, space design, and performance arts to be considered in aspects such as conceptual basis and methodology for the performance stage design project. This approach with regards to the study of performance stage designs can be concluded that there is a synergy between the traditional and contemporary performance arts.

Stream: Performing Arts Practices: Theatre, Dance, Music

Paper: A paper has not yet been submitted.

Dr. Ahmad Shukri Yusof holds a permanent position as a Lecturer in Architecture at the International Islamic University, Malaysia. He holds a Diploma in Architecture, Advance Diploma in Architectural Studies in Urban Design and a Ph.D. in Architecture (Aberdeen, U.K.). He has pursued research interest related to Urban Design, Architectural Heritage and the Conservation of the Historic Buildings. His research career has focused on heritage studies and its relationships with form and identity; and its functions in particular architectural aesthetics contexts. He taught architectural design studios and heritage studies courses. He has carried out a series of heritage studies programmes on the documentation projects of measured drawings for local and international historical heritage sites, funded by International Islamic University Malaysia. He has recently presented a paper at the 14th Annual AHRA International Conference 2007, Kingston University London.

Ahmad Razi Junaidi is an Architecture Graduate at the International Islamic University, Malaysia. He has pursued interest in modern and contemporary architectural design approach and recently has been awarded as joint prize winner of 2007 Architecture Design Competition in Japan.