Lives in Motion
Celebrating Dance in Thailand
- 244 pages
- English
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Lives in Motion
Celebrating Dance in Thailand
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction: Dancing in Thailand
- 2 Remembering Contemporary Thai Dance with an Eye to Its Futures
- 3 Unseen Thailand: Exploring the Hidden Lives of Dance in Contemporary Thai Culture
- 4 Lakhon Phanthang: Thai Hybrid Dance Drama on the International Stage in the Early 20th Century
- 5 Reimagining Classical Thai Dance for the 21st Century: The Evolution of Pichet Klunchunâs âNo. 60â
- 6 A Glocalized Tradition: Worldly Currents of Nora in Southern Thailand
- 7 Made to Order: Corporeality and Community in the Contemporary Isan Dancing Body
- 8 Preparing BFA Students for a Life in the World of Dance: Thai University Pedagogies
- 9 Lanna Dance Now: Our Moves with Contemporary Northern Thai Performance Cultures
- 10 B-Floorâs Moves on the Contemporary Stage
- 11 My Improbable, Extraordinary West-East Dance Life
- 12 Dance Dreams Realized: My Journey from a Bangkok Dance School to New Yorkâs Dance Theater World (and Back Again)
- 13 Artistsâ Interviews
- 14 Glossary of Terms Relevant to Dance in Thailand
- Index