This book celebrates dance in Thailand, focusing on the diversity of Thailandâ s dance cultures and their place in todayâ s world. Giving voice to eminent artists and scholars on the complex roles that Thailand is pursuing for artful movement at home and abroad, it provides key perspectives on Thai dance traditions and practitioners.
This book celebrates dance in Thailand, focusing on the diversity of Thailandâ s dance cultures and their place in todayâ s world. Giving voice to eminent artists and scholars on the complex roles that Thailand is pursuing for artful movement at home and abroad, it provides key perspectives on Thai dance traditions and practitioners.
Pornrat Damrhung is Professor of Dramatic Arts at Chulalongkorn University and Associate Member of the Royal Society of Thailand, specializing in contemporary dance cultures, community performance, and young people's theater. Lowell Skar teaches Global Cultural Studies at Chulalongkorn University, and focuses on how modern cultural life in Asia, including the performing arts, is both entangled in local embodied knowledge and engaged with transnational practices and imaginaries.
Inhaltsangabe
List of Figures vii Contributors x Foreword xiv Acknowledgments xvi 1 Introduction: Dancing in Thailand 1 PORNRAT DAMRHUNG AND LOWELL SKAR 2 Remembering Contemporary Thai Dance with an Eye to Its Futures 17 SURAPONE VIRULRAK 3 Unseen Thailand: Exploring the Hidden Lives of Dance in Contemporary Thai Culture 31 PORNRAT DAMRHUNG 4 Lakhon Phanthang: Thai Hybrid Dance Drama on the International Stage in the Early 20th Century 47 PAKAMAS JIRAJARUPAT 5 Reimagining Classical Thai Dance for the 21st Century: The Evolution of Pichet Klunchun's "No. 60" 65 LOWELL SKAR 6 A Glocalized Tradition: Worldly Currents of Nora in Southern Thailand 81 KANIT SRIPAORAYA 7 Made to Order: Corporeality and Community in the Contemporary Isan Dancing Body 97 TANATCHAPORN KITTIKONG 8 Preparing BFA Students for a Life in the World of Dance: Thai University Pedagogies 111 SUPHANNEE BOONPENG 9 Lanna Dance Now: Our Moves with Contemporary Northern Thai Performance Cultures 125 SARAN SUWANACHOTE, RONNARONG KHAMPHA, AND WAEWDOW SIRISOOK 10 B-Floor's Moves on the Contemporary Stage 141 JARUNUN PHANTACHAT 11 My Improbable, Extraordinary West-East Dance Life 156 BENJAMIN TARDIF 12 Dance Dreams Realized: My Journey from a Bangkok Dance School to New York's Dance Theater World (and Back Again) 171 NAPAT RODBOON 13 Artists' Interviews 186 LOWELL SKAR AND PORNRAT DAMRHUNG 14 Glossary of Terms Relevant to Dance in Thailand 225 PORNRAT DAMRHUNG AND LOWELL SKAR Index 237
List of Figures vii Contributors x Foreword xiv Acknowledgments xvi 1 Introduction: Dancing in Thailand 1 PORNRAT DAMRHUNG AND LOWELL SKAR 2 Remembering Contemporary Thai Dance with an Eye to Its Futures 17 SURAPONE VIRULRAK 3 Unseen Thailand: Exploring the Hidden Lives of Dance in Contemporary Thai Culture 31 PORNRAT DAMRHUNG 4 Lakhon Phanthang: Thai Hybrid Dance Drama on the International Stage in the Early 20th Century 47 PAKAMAS JIRAJARUPAT 5 Reimagining Classical Thai Dance for the 21st Century: The Evolution of Pichet Klunchun's "No. 60" 65 LOWELL SKAR 6 A Glocalized Tradition: Worldly Currents of Nora in Southern Thailand 81 KANIT SRIPAORAYA 7 Made to Order: Corporeality and Community in the Contemporary Isan Dancing Body 97 TANATCHAPORN KITTIKONG 8 Preparing BFA Students for a Life in the World of Dance: Thai University Pedagogies 111 SUPHANNEE BOONPENG 9 Lanna Dance Now: Our Moves with Contemporary Northern Thai Performance Cultures 125 SARAN SUWANACHOTE, RONNARONG KHAMPHA, AND WAEWDOW SIRISOOK 10 B-Floor's Moves on the Contemporary Stage 141 JARUNUN PHANTACHAT 11 My Improbable, Extraordinary West-East Dance Life 156 BENJAMIN TARDIF 12 Dance Dreams Realized: My Journey from a Bangkok Dance School to New York's Dance Theater World (and Back Again) 171 NAPAT RODBOON 13 Artists' Interviews 186 LOWELL SKAR AND PORNRAT DAMRHUNG 14 Glossary of Terms Relevant to Dance in Thailand 225 PORNRAT DAMRHUNG AND LOWELL SKAR Index 237
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