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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 ...
A nang drama player and puppet. Nang yai (Thai: หนังใหญ่, pronounced [nǎŋ jàj]) is a form of shadow play found in Thailand. Puppets are made of painted buffalo hide, while the story is narrated by songs, chants and music. [1] Nang means "leather" ("leather puppet" in this case), and in common usage refers to a dance-drama ...
Therefore, he was considered a high rakshasa and is revered in the Thai performing arts in the capacity of Khon (masked dance drama) grandmaster. In the Wai khru (worship ceremony), his mask will be placed in the highest position. His character's dance moves are considered the highest. [4] Rama Sita Laksmana enoucuntered a rakshasa named Viradha
His son, Rama II, rewrote some parts of his father's version for khon drama. The work has had an important influence on Thai literature, art and drama (both the khon and nang dramas being derived from it). While the main story is similar to that of the Dasaratha Nataka, differences in some tales still prevail. Many other aspects were transposed ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Last Legends also known as Mue Nuer Mek (Thai: มือเหนือเมฆ; RTGS: Mue Nuea Mek; lit: Hand Above the Cloud; International title: Last Legend [3]) was a Thai action/drama series or lakorn in heroic bloodshed style, like the 1997 film Dang Bireley's and Young Gangsters.