Melina Nathania Kurniawan
EUPHORIA Melina Nathania Kurniawan
This book is dedicated to my parents with love.
Foreword
People need time to relax both their mind and body. In addition, there is a lot of entertainment for people to choose, to spend their leisure time in. In this modern generation, the highest interest leisure activity by young adults and adults is clubbing. They usually go clubbing after a long day or week for stress relief, dancing, and drinking. Clubs, pubs, nightclubs, and other types of this entertainment, are offered with different themes, music, and circumstances. Emotional spacing is particularly significant to the dancing experience in that dancing is at once both a cause and an effect. Clubbers learn how to dance from watching others (mimicry), listening and understanding music. They express their emotions through body, concurrently through bodily movement, music, other mediations, and lighting. They move their arms, legs, head, fingers, feet to express happiness and euphoria; they know how to interact through dancing. If meeting the spacing of mediations and bodily movement through understanding where and how to use one’s body is a success, a sensation of euphoria may be experienced. Clubbers can develop a level of confidence and the most important thing is that they can be themselves. In conclusion, people need to spend their leisure time. In this modern era, some people especially young adults and adults prefer to spend their time to go clubbing. Through dancing, clubbers express a sensation of euphoria with their body movement. These photos were taken in one of the clubs in Singapore. These photos depict the circumstances inside of the club and how clubbers express their emotions. Melina Nathania Kurniawan
My head thinks by itself, moving, Of things I don’t comprehend. My body dances by itself, moving, Of things I apprehend. Melina Nathania K.
Thanks to: God who provided me with his unending grace in the process of making this piece. Beloved parents who support me unconditionally in every aspect of my life. Ms. Ho Hui May for the new opinions and knowledge that is imparted to me in the process of making this piece. Lee Kian Ping and Jeff Chew who offered support and is a source inspiration for this piece. Hanna Setiadi who helped out and shared insights along the process of making this piece.