Pornrat Damrhung
Biographic Data
| ID | 7353239 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pornrat Damrhung |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pornrat |
| FAMILY NAME | Damrhung |
| SIGNATURE | DAMRHUNG P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chulalongkorn University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Performance Research Seen through the Lens of Cultural Ecology
This paper examines a performance project called Kita Natakan Lanna ( Lanna Music and Dance ) done by the artist, Saran Suwanachote, or Khru Nick, a dancer in the Northern martial dance form of “Choeng,” at the local arts and culture center known as the Lanna Wisdom School in Chiang Mai. By working with Khru Nick and observing how he produced a new work for this project, I learned that he used an approach based on a local form of cultural life ma…
Introduction
This special issue of manusya explores the diverse ways that performance cultures are embedded in cultural ecologies in Thailand today. This theme emerged from work done using performance research approaches in projects done around Thailand between 2017 and 2019. These projects discovered that performance lives in cultural ecosystems, both producing new knowledge, skills and performances for those involved in them, and revealing how performance c…
Roundtables on Performance Research, Developing Cultural Ecologies, and Artistic Research Networking in the Asia-Pacific
Three sessions of international and local participants from a July 2019 conference created active ecosystems which generated living examples of intercultural improvisation, performance research, cultural ecologies and artistic research in Thailand. Summarized and assessed in this article, these sessions revealed some of the first fruits of Thailand’s work in these areas through engagement with other practitioners in the region. Besides offering c…
Exploring Partnerships with Common Roots
This article explores two different attempts to make partnerships for the today’s stage with teams of classically-trained Southeast Asian dancers in the last three years. Working in different conditions and toward different ends, the Cambodian and Thai dancers discussed in this paper combined their classical artistic training and interests into performances differently directed toward today’s diverse dance audiences. In particular, this paper wil…
Working Between two Worlds
Thailand’s financial collapse and new constitution in 1997 brought issues of commercialization, education reform, and decentralization to the forefront of arts and culture. The paper focuses on three aspects of the current situation of the traditional arts and artists in Thailand
Cultivating the Garden of Theater Culture
After questioning the conventional distinction between traditional and modem theater in Asia, this essay suggests that it may be more fruitful to view today’s live theater traditions as part of a garden of theater culture that includes both native and imported elements and both deep-rooted and recently transplanted traditions. The remainder of the essay amplifies this perspective using examples from Thailand’s theater traditions during the last c…
The Roots of Future Blooming
performance have changed and new forms have been imported or arisen spontaneously. Moreover, the new disciplines of education, childhood development, child psychology and sociology have changed v iews about, expectations of, and demands from young people in the last few decades. Mandatory schooling has come to occupy the largest chunk of children's lives, with interaction w ith the mass media (especially TV) as a close second . Children's lives a…
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The Roots of Future Blooming
performance have changed and new forms have been imported or arisen spontaneously. Moreover, the new disciplines of education, childhood development, child psychology and sociology have changed v iews about, expectations of, and demands from young people in the last few decades. Mandatory schooling has come to occupy the largest chunk of children's lives, with interaction w ith the mass media (especially TV) as a close second . Children's lives a…
Cultivating the Garden of Theater Culture
After questioning the conventional distinction between traditional and modem theater in Asia, this essay suggests that it may be more fruitful to view today’s live theater traditions as part of a garden of theater culture that includes both native and imported elements and both deep-rooted and recently transplanted traditions. The remainder of the essay amplifies this perspective using examples from Thailand’s theater traditions during the last c…
Working Between two Worlds
Thailand’s financial collapse and new constitution in 1997 brought issues of commercialization, education reform, and decentralization to the forefront of arts and culture. The paper focuses on three aspects of the current situation of the traditional arts and artists in Thailand
Exploring Partnerships with Common Roots
This article explores two different attempts to make partnerships for the today’s stage with teams of classically-trained Southeast Asian dancers in the last three years. Working in different conditions and toward different ends, the Cambodian and Thai dancers discussed in this paper combined their classical artistic training and interests into performances differently directed toward today’s diverse dance audiences. In particular, this paper wil…
Performance Research Seen through the Lens of Cultural Ecology
This paper examines a performance project called Kita Natakan Lanna ( Lanna Music and Dance ) done by the artist, Saran Suwanachote, or Khru Nick, a dancer in the Northern martial dance form of “Choeng,” at the local arts and culture center known as the Lanna Wisdom School in Chiang Mai. By working with Khru Nick and observing how he produced a new work for this project, I learned that he used an approach based on a local form of cultural life ma…
Introduction
This special issue of manusya explores the diverse ways that performance cultures are embedded in cultural ecologies in Thailand today. This theme emerged from work done using performance research approaches in projects done around Thailand between 2017 and 2019. These projects discovered that performance lives in cultural ecosystems, both producing new knowledge, skills and performances for those involved in them, and revealing how performance c…
Roundtables on Performance Research, Developing Cultural Ecologies, and Artistic Research Networking in the Asia-Pacific
Three sessions of international and local participants from a July 2019 conference created active ecosystems which generated living examples of intercultural improvisation, performance research, cultural ecologies and artistic research in Thailand. Summarized and assessed in this article, these sessions revealed some of the first fruits of Thailand’s work in these areas through engagement with other practitioners in the region. Besides offering c…
Sociology (7 works) · Art (5 works) · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (5 works) · Visual arts (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Dance (3 works) · Diversity and Impact of Dance (3 works) · History (3 works) · The arts (3 works)