Kota Belud school wins dance competition
KOTA KINABALU: SMK Narinang, Kota Belud won the 2017 Sabah State Level Secondary School Dance Competition at SM Lok Yuk Likas here yesterday.
Its team, Narinang Dancer, beat 13 other schools from 11 state districts and the school also took home the best choreography as well as the best costume and look title.
The Narinang Dancer, first established in 1999 and has 48 members, have several accolades under its belt.
Among them is the second place trophy in the recent state level 2017 HPPNS Creative Dance, third placing in the state level Tugu Budaya in 2009 and 2011, winner in the state level Red Cross Day dancing competition in 2010, 2012 and 2014.
SMK Nambayan, Tambunan clinched second place in the competition and its Warisan Seni Budaya Club dancer, Vanessa Williams, was dubbed the overall best female dancer whilst Willibrod Abinus was named as one of the Penari Lelaki Harapan recipients.
SMK Chinta Mata Tenom meanwhile bagged third place in the competition.
Perhaps the biggest let down of the day was SMK Ranau.
Its team made an outstanding dramatic dance performance, complete with somersaults, leaps and matrix acrobatic moves, but the theme did not fully adhere to the Sabah Ethnic Dance Creation concept set in the competition.
However, SMK Ranau was given the Special Jury Awards and the school’s dancer, Jacky A Guntas, was named the competition’s best overall male dancer.
Best Musical composition went to SM St John, Beaufort whilst Maktab Sabah’s Mohd Danial Askal and SMK Kolombong’s Jesper Evas Dumalin were also named Penari Lelaki Harapan.
Nurasilah Adibah from Maktab Sabah, Carlshima Freddie from SM Konvent St Ursula and Syazerra Leurince from Kota Marudu were named Penari Harapan Perempuan.
SMK Bugaya Semporna, Kota Marudu’s SMK Kota Marudu II, SMK Bengkongan and SMK Bandau also participated in the competition.
Sabah Education Department head of human development sector Datu Jamigul Datu Salin was the guest of honor at the program participated by 129 secondary school students and 103 officers, including three judges.
The annual event, which started from the 1980s, aims to encourage and attract students to familiarize and learn the basics of dance art, systematic folk dance learning methods, whilst exposing students to the culture of existing races in Malaysia.