Lives in motion : celebrating dance in Thailand / edited by Pornrat Damrhung and Lowell Skar.

"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...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Other Authors: Damrhung, Pornrat (Editor), Skar, Lowell (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.
Series:Celebrating dance in Asia and the Pacific.
Subjects:
Description
Summary:"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 has actively adapted and negotiated their knowledge in relation to modernity and globalization. Developing new models, standards and sites for dance, movement and theatre, 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"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (xv, 244 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781003453673
1003453678
9781000991284
1000991288
9781000991246
1000991245
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 07, 2024).
Biographical or Historical Data: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.