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RUS 104 Performance and Awards Night 2013

Time flies.
Finally it came to the final studio project of first semester- live performance.
It was like a closing ceremony for our one-semester 'learning by doing' studio life and was held at the Dewan Kuliah D USM.

The theme for the performance night is 'The Lost Kingdoms'.
Each major was given a specific Nusantara kingdoms and needed to design and wear the costumes according to the kingdom.
Architecture- Srivijaya
Interior design- Singhasari
Urban and regional planning- Langkasuka
Quantity surveying- Majapahit
Building surveying- Pagaruyung
Building technology- Mataram
Construction management- Demak
Besides that, each major have to come up with a ten minutes live performance, whether in form of acting, singing, dancing, artistic, musical theatre and so on.

Singhasari is a strange word for me. 
I knew nothing about this kingdom and wondering how should I dress up and perform.
Google is always a good teacher whenever I need informations and references.
After searching on Google, I had some clues on Singhasari kingdom.

 Singhasari was a kingdom located in east Java between 1222 and 1292. 
The kingdom succeeded Kingdom of Kediri as the dominant kingdom in eastern Java.
It was founded by Ken Arok (1182-1227/1247), whose story is a popular children's tale in Central and East Java.
People in Singhasari spoke in Old Javanese and Sanskrit.
They were Kejawen, Hinduism, Buddhism and Animism.

It was too hard to find the similar costume or design it in a short time, so the girls decided to buy a set of baju kebaya which looks a little bit similar with our Singhasari kingdom. 
With that, we could modify a little bit and add in some related elements.

 As to coordinate with the theme, we decided to have a dance performance.
To make it more interesting, we added some plots into our dance.
At first, a girl in modern world was listening to music and she started to dance.
Suddenly it was black off and a group of Singhasari's people appeared to dance.
She was curious about it and joined the dance.
After the dance, the light was off again and she backed to her modern world.
It took us a few sleepless nights to learn about the dance and practice till we were familiar with it.
However, we were having a lot of fun and joy during the process.

 On 20th December 2013, it was the night.
Everyone was dressing up nicely according to their kingdom and had a wonderful time together.

Awesome art work by performance night committees




Kingdom of the night- Srivijaya (Architectural students)

With The Queen from Srivijaya kingdom

Our comfortable chair 'The Hexa' won the third place



                                                        With Singhasari kingdom's banner
The best XZbition booth- ID and Urban Planning


The last studio project for the first semester had successfully completed.
After the semester break, we will be divided into design studio and non-design studio.
We were grateful that we were able to study together during the first semester as we could befriend and know each other.
It would be a great and unforgetable memory for all of us.


-End of chapter-
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