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Khon (Thai: โขน, pronounced) is a dance drama genre from Thailand.Khon has been performed since the Ayutthaya Kingdom. [1]It is traditionally performed solely in the royal court by men in masks accompanied by narrators and a traditional piphat ensemble.
Khon is a traditional Thai dance focused on classical masks. This type of dance developed in the seventeenth century as a hybrid of Hindu military rituals and Thai martial arts. Khon focuses on the Ramakian epic, a version of the Ramayana story telling of Rama, an avatar of the Hindu God Vishnu, and his wife Sita who is abducted by the demon ...
The Thai term, Taree (Thai: ตารี) borrowed from Melayu word, Tari [9] and being adopted specifically for Thai-Malays Traditional Dance e.g. Taree Kipas Dance Thai version. [10] The term drama in Thai word such as, Khon which is derived from Tamil word, Kon [11] (Tamil: கோன், romanized: kōṉ) [12] means "King and god, a king, a ...
Khon Rerng Muang (2002) - Mai Charoenpura and Art Supawatt Purdy; Khon Rerng Muang (2002) Kammtape Tua Noy (2003) - Pachrapa Chaichua and Shakrit Yamnam; Muang Dala (2003) - Phutanate Hongmanop and Phiyada Akkraseranee; Leurd kuttiya (2003) - Jesdaporn Pholdee and Phiyada Akkraseranee; Nang Fah Rai Peak Angel with no wings (2004) - Ann ...
Masked dancers about to perform a khon dance-drama based on the Phra Lak Phra Ram. Khon (ໂຂນ ) is the most stylised of the Lao dance-dramas, with troupes of male and female dancers in elaborate costumes and masks performing very graceful movements demonstrating their great flexibility, and very common dance-drama form for the Phra Lak ...
Kon Khon (Thai: คนโขน) is a 2011 Thai film by Sarunyoo Wongkrachang. It concerns a love triangle involving three rival Khon dancers The film was selected as the Thai entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] but it did not make the final shortlist.
Today, it is best known for traditional performances, especially of the khon masked dance. The theatre was built from 1960 to 1965, beginning under the supervision of Luang Wichit Wathakan , the prolific author and playwright who contributed much to the development of Thai nationalist discourse during the mid-20th century.
An episode of a prime-time drama is between 45 minutes to two hours long including commercials. Each series is a finished story, unlike Western "cliffhanger" dramas, but rather like Hispanic telenovelas. [3] The first television drama in Thailand was Suriyani Mai Yom Taengngan (สุริยานีไม่ยอมแต่งงาน, lit.