mak yong and jazz dance

Since I come from Kelantan, Mak Yong supposedly Mak Yong would not be a strange tradition for me. But it happened differently, for not only myself but my parents will also felt alienated from any knowledge about Mak Yong. As long as I knew, it is a traditional drama dance which is originated from Kelantan. The combination of drama dance, comedy and opera made it became very unique and one of its kind, compared with the other traditional dance drama like Ulik Mayang, soap opera and so forth. Usually there would be many characters to be perfromed by Mak Yong's 16 traditional dancers. The person who played the 'Mak Yong' character definiitely will be the focus of attraction. Mak Yong performance is all about the story of a royal family, focusing on the price and princess. It involves battle, love story or sometimes it tells the conflicts happened regarding the royal family members.
Years ago when people talk about Mak Yong, ot sounds familiar and everybody willl surely know about it. Currently, since mak Yong is banned from being performed inside Kelantan, talking about Mak Yong is very strange became 'taboo' in certain situation. As far as I have beeen informed, Mak Yong is banned due to the order of the Islamic Law. In Islam, women are forbidden to show certain parts of their body as to keeop the dignity, and they are also forbidden from singing into the crowd. Since Mak Yong got two elements, so it is banned, including several other traditonal performance like Main Puteri because the latter also involved women, more over it's purpose is to cure the sick patients spiritually and using the power of demons. But some of the other traditional performance like Dikir Barat is not banned as long as it does not included any element which are forbidden in Islamic Law.
The other dance art form is the ballet dance. Ballet came from the western country but nowadays it had been taught and performed into many countries. Moreover it had been put into many international competitions. Some of us regarded ballet as an exersice, since the grafeful dance and flexiblilty of the movements involve parts of the body. In my opinion, the attraction of the ballet dance is the graceful dance, especially for girls and young ladies. As soon as you see the turned out feet, hair in a bun, and fancy arms, you know that you are watching ballet. Although it looks very simple but the training and practising is wuite painful, especially for the beginners. To be a ballet dancer, one should has the body weight which could match the need of the performance and also has to practice in 'softening' the movements of the body.
In my opinion, either Mak Yong or ballet dance, both have their unique and differences. Dances are art and not everybody has the similar ability to empower all types of arts. Soem are still preserved and glorified, and some had became very native and unknown to the current generation.