Exploration and creativity

Theater talk.

"Against the current. Test the strength of artistic identity that exists in itself, to what extent the strength of this thought. Can I challenge myself in a world that has never been occupied? Something new and never been seen by people. Against the odds, can I interpret the constellation of the traditional concept of life-modern and modern-traditional cultivation into a new idea? Is challenging against the current, such as lighting a lamp in a bright place. However, it was just wild theories that play in my mind that is not preceded by any action".

      Become a trauma for the artist when faced with an impasse in his work of art, no clear picture, and also the view of the soul in lye ambiguity. If you are not contemplated, will not be able to build and develop the idea, and when it was forced to continue it does not explain anything. Dark. Many fellow artists in the performing arts say, "Is not wrong in imitating art, because each creation must have impersonation." Excerpt from these words have reduced some of the pressure and allow the directors depend on finding something that can be built for motives and motivation before starting his creative work. The pressure will be more when it comes to presenting the details of the overall idea to the producers or even the financiers. Therefore, the results of the discussions made by the financier of production, will always be recorded and interpreted carefully in mind, though still unclear to what is required and is targeted by the producer. The concept envisaged by the producer who is also a customer of the artist, is usually shaped to a large point of view, macro, and, overall. Will be necessary as an artist, to highlight that the foresight, and convert them to a closer view of the details of an orderly and easily visible without changing the actual direction of the financier.

A method of common guidelines or standards required by each director or artist in developing his artistic inspiration crafts one by one, until the imaging sequence of the show (through the senses "eyes" of art) work of art that led to the goal-not only achieve the whole idea or concept, but, to reflect the results visually on stage.

Namely through the preparation of each form of the phrase, plot and scenes that were full of obstacles and conflicts of the story written by a scriptwriter. The phrase "the usual" is actually very slicing feelings, because it does not directly challenge the minds of an artist inspired. No challenge is not great and unique meaning. Syndrome through a unique and great, is a voice whispering in the artist himself, who is always arguing and asked for an explanation, why; What is this?; Have no other ideas?; Repeat the old style? The uniqueness is the foundation presents a peculiar charm or beauty of the artwork. Interviews with many people who have no background knowledge of art as a career strengthen the hypothesis of the unique characteristics of need as required basis in the performance of each production.


The result of the survey form using "contingency question" through the answer "yes" and "no" and "complex contigensy question" through the answer, "If yes, please indicate why", has found the number of views of 94% say that the features required in every creation a work of art should have a uniqueness and identity, other than the usual arrangement, and also dynamic. The three items mentioned are the core needs of the audience who is also the customer that determines the success of a presentation. Through the last three, also outlines that the arts is not enough to just show the beauty and subtlety, see the same thing, and in the sense of the mediocre. As commonly seen in every time we go to watch a play in theaters around Kuala Lumpur.

While the form of an opinion survey of the artist (the format using the same questions as the public survey form) also, which also stressed the inputs to achieve the desired outputs by the public (the audience). Among the items that have been investigated are the characteristics that need to be held on an artist, the element of "unique" and "other than what is normally seen" and the need to achieve a "good creation." In the last three items are basic concepts that are always playing on the inspired minds of an artist. Through this second survey, a large percentage of 95% shows every artist should have their own principles and not just the opinion or the way other people; element of uniqueness is a must for any creative work is accomplished, and for each unique artistic production requires knowledge, experience and artistic talent.

Ayob Ibrahim, country music composer who won best-film award in two consecutive years in the 18th Malaysian Film Festival in 2005 and 19th in the year 2006 through film "Paloh" and "Qaisy and Laila", Best Original Score and Theme Song for the film "Qaisy and Laila" in the Asia Pacific Film Festival 50 in 2005, expressed his views in an interview with him, namely, "a special case in dire need of creation of knowledge, experience and most important is the talent. Only with the knowledge and experience of art without having the talent, does not guarantee the quality of creation, on the contrary, if there is a talent without knowledge cannot produce a pure invention. A great talent with a combination of knowledge and experience will be promised a creation of pure, natural, unique and principled. "

In an opinion survey of the artist shows that every artist needs the principle of holding its own, because by virtue of purity will be able to produce the artistic quality of each product. This has also disclosed that the audience always wants abnormalities in each performance, even as examples of theatrical production with the same script, every director would have the interpretation, evaluation and cultivation of different focus. Disparity is key in any production, especially in the post-modern world that often provides an avenue for artists to express themselves through whom the creation of art. Characterized by the disorder will also show the uniqueness and "personal creation" in absolute terms. Features such as this has produced great men through the creation of their superior, like the late Tan Sri P. Ramlee, M. Nasir, Dato 'Nordin Hassan, Dato 'Ahmad Nawab, and Dato' Ibrahim Hussain and probably several more prominent creator of art that is not remembered by the author. The number of leading figures of the artist is a very small amount compared to the displacement of approximately 50 years ago, has been providing information and indicates how hard it is to create a work that can be received and accepted by the community.

Doris Humphrey a famous choreographer in the United States said her opinion about the uniqueness of the creator of the performing arts:

“It is truism that the performing arts are much richer in interpreters than in creators; the proportion is probably a hundred to one or more. Good composers, playwrights and choreographers are so obviously in the minority ………. Knowing what these are might save a good deal of grief, not only for long suffering dancers, but for the public, the management and the choreographer himself.” (Humphrey: 1977, p. 20).

She also highlighted the disparity that must be owned by each artist presumably want to achieve in his uniqueness, namely:

“Honesty is the prime essential here. He must ask himself, ‘what do I believe in, what do I want to say?’ He must have a high resistance to novelty for its own sake and courage to depart from the trends of the day if necessary. To compose for himself, he must put a stethoscope to his own heart, and listen to those mysterious inner voices which are the guide to originality.” (1977, p. 21)

In the world of creation, creativity is an area that is very mysterious and can be understood as a four-dimensional space, where each artist will have their own recipes. An absolute freedom that is owned by someone who chose this platform to serve as a career in life. However, a brief description of the views of the public, the artists and scholars have given little guidance on matters which are always dealt with, namely the human as in construed in Latin as homo sapiens which also means the species being always know how to create. Where efforts continue to be created by humans since the beginning of the incident until now, people continue to create, modify and create something to be more advanced. Knowledge that can be understood from the discussions earlier, includes the capabilities required by an artist prior to producing works that have the flexibility of its own.

Simple hypotheses on general matters in realizing the idea to the stage can be outlined as follows:

Firstly, many people say a special talent (artistic genius) is natural can not be taught, but, even so, knowledge about the basic needs of the arts to an art crafts can be learned. As the learning sessions are available at arts institutions, whether formal or informal.

Secondly, the creation of a claim to expertise in the process of creating something new and fresh, to assess accurately, and have views that are born from creative minds in self-image is like having a set idea is to establish an understanding expressed.

 Thirdly: The experiences of life can be likened to the teachers who teach the intricacies of the knowledge that his predisposition. Learn all varieties and at the same time to fix it. Through exposure and experience as well, one will explore the field, and acquire knowledge without knowing something can be explained if it is something, or how to know, but it is sure to leave feeling that art - as an example to know about how the taste of durian can only be understood after one is already eating and taste it. Experience is the key that opens the creative doors one by one, consciously or subconsciously.

In summary, the hypothesis of the three items discussed is canon to the talent, knowledge and experience. Easy, but tricky, but also is not impossible.