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...
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| Language: | English |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge,
2024.
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| Series: | Celebrating dance in Asia and the Pacific.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : dancing in Thailand / Pornrat Damrhung and Lowell Skar
- Remembering contemporary Thai dance and its futures / Surapone Virulrak
- Unseen Thailand : exploring the hidden lives of dance in contemporary Thai culture / Pornrat Damrhung
- Lakhon Phanthang : thai hybrid dance-drama on the international stage in the early 20th century / Pakamas Jirajarupath
- Reimagining classical Thai dance for the 21st Century : Pichet Klunchun's 'no. 60' Inthe-making / Lowell Skar
- A glocalized tradition : worldly currents of nora in southern Thailand / Kanit Sripaoraya
- Made to order : corporeality and community in the contemporary I-San dancing body / Tanatchaporn Kittikong
- Preparing students for a life in dance with a BFA : Thai university experiences / Suphannee Boonpeng
- Lanna dance now : cultures of movement in contemporary northern Thailand / Waewdow Sirisook, Ronnarong Khampha and Saran Suwanachote
- B-floor's moves on the contemporary stage / Jarunun Phantachat
- My improbable, extraordinary west-east dance Life / Ben Tardif
- Daydreams realized : from Bangkok's Aree School of Dance Arts to New York's Alvin Ailey Dance Theater / Napat Rodbun
- Artist interviews.