JUST Dance: The Dance for Justice. A Study to Produce a Creative Work of Mae Nak Legend to a Dance Performance
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39th National Graduate Research Conference and 4th International Graduate Research Conference. Create New Knowledge Through Graduate Research” Assumption University, Thailand
Date: June 30th- 1st July, 2016, 247-274
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JUST Dance: The Dance for Justice. A Study to Produce a Creative Work of Mae Nak Legend to a Dance Performance
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This research aims to examine the creative process to recreate a dance performance that has been staged as “a spoken play” from Mae Nak legend named “Mak, Nak and People of Phra Khanong.” The first stage play of “Mak, Nak and People of Phra Khanong” was performed in June 2015, at Assumption University Black box Theatre and at the Prague Quadrennial 2015, Czech Republic. The love legend of Mae Nak Phra Khanong was perceived and portrayed as a haunting, revenge and furious ghost story for almost a century. Mae Nak legend has been told and retold for nearly hundred versions since 1911. This research particularly draws politics aspects in dance history and examines the correlation between politics of dance and politics in Mae Nak legend. The performance of ‘JUST Dance” highlights the final scenes from “Mak, Nak and People of Phra Khanong” where the fights between Nak (Individualism) and People of Phra Khanong (Collectivism) occur. Ann Brooks clearly stated in her book “Popular Culture: Global Intercultural Perspectives” that the prohibition around dance practices for woman are often corresponded with restrictions in women’s bodies. Where living women are judged by beauty; the opposite of both are explored and questioned in this research paper. ‘JUST Dance” performance has examined the distortion of dance aesthetics, interpreted and transformed all acting and spoken dialogues into two parts 1) non-human progressive dance movement and 2) the traditional classical and beautiful dance practice. The research aims to experiment and study creative process extracting from the aesthetics and politics of dance from Mae Nak legend.