Lives in Motion

Celebrating Dance in Thailand
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-21428-3
Verlag: Routledge India

Buch, Englisch, 260 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 561 g

Reihe: Celebrating Dance in Asia and the Pacific

Lives in Motion celebrates dance in Thailand, focusing on the diversity of Thailand’s dance cultures and their place in today’s world. Giving voice to eminent artists and scholars on the complex roles that Thailand is pursuing for artful movement at home and abroad, the book provides key perspectives on Thai dance traditions and practitioners. It explores the many forms and meanings in contemporary dance, changing local traditions in the country, the evolution of Thai dance on the global stage, and hybrid features of the Thai dance world.

The book examines how hybridity has been integral to dance cultures in Thailand and discusses how they have actively adapted and negotiated their knowledge in relation to modernity and globalization. Developing new models, standards and sites for dance, movement and theater, dance in Thai has been advancing in innovative ways, whether it is to include fresh forms of skilled bodily movement or to expand in new arenas like tourism and online platforms. Similarly, old systems of training, which included artists’ homes, palaces, and temples, have been adapted into the new world of modern education, media, home schooling, and new community rituals.

A pioneering contribution on Thai performing arts, this volume examines contemporary Thai dance cultures in the local, national, regional, and global contexts. It will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of dance and performance studies, cultural studies, Southeast Asia studies, and art.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Damrhung, Pornrat

Skar, Lowell

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Tanz Gesellschaftstänze, Volkstänze
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Installations-, Aktions-, Computer- und Videokunst
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.