Khon : "Krao Nai" 2

The Krao Nai dance uses Na Part Song, which is the specific song for using with Giant characters. The clip shown is called "Krao Si Tit", portrays the characters of Sang Artit and Pichitrapairee. When Sang Artit a giant army general who volunteered Totsakan to fight against Prince Rama's army to avenge his brother's death. (His brother was killed by Prince Rama earlier.) The scene shows Sang Artit and his general, Pichitrapairee examining their troops (not presented in the clip).

The dance and sequence was adapted and reinvented by Kru Rakop Bhodiwej and performed by Kru Chulachart Arunyanak and Kru Pakorn Wichit.

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• performing
• arts
• khon
• Thai
• Classical
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• Dance
• Theatre

[indrachit]

แสดงว่าไม่มีกษัตริย์เขมรที่มีเ­ชื้อสายสยามเลย ว่างั้นเหอะ

[indrachit]

พระราเมศวรองค์ไหนล่ะครับ มีตั้งหลายองค์ แล้วราชินีสยามองค์ไหนล่ะครับ ดีใจจังเรามีบรรพบุรุษร่วมกัน

[indrachit]

แต่อาจารย์เขมรที่สอนลูกศิษย์ไท­ยนี่ชื่ออะไรบ้างล่ะ พอดีเกิดไม่ทัน

[indrachit]

แนะนำว่าให้ไปหาประวัติ แม่ลมุล ยมะคุปต์ และ แม่ละม่อม อิศรางกูร ณ อยุธยา มาอ่านก่อนแล้วค่อย post comment เรื่องลูกศิษย์ อาจารย์เนี่ยนะ

[indrachit]

It is sad to see that so much hatre and competition have been put over feeling among Burmese, Thai, Laos and Cambodian people. Instead of saying who hurted who, or who stole from who, why can't we all admit that we all share the same ancestors and ancestrial cultures as there were many intermariage between our races ranged from the Monarches to the peasants. We can't we sit down and study the evolution of our arts and culture together so we would know better about what have become us today.

[indrachit]

I cannot see that any of Cambodian Classical Dancing School would have claimed that those dancing piece, including the famous Apsara Dance was created by the two late Thai Grandmistresses which I believe it is rightly so as those dances were created in Cambodia. Therefore, if those critics who tried so hard to claimed that Siamese took all the cultures from Cambodian and demand for Thai to be openminded about this. I suggest that let's be very openminded about all the factual evidences.

[indrachit]

In fact, Khun Krue Lamoon Yamakupata (คุณครู ลมุล ยะมะคุปต์) and Khun Krue Lamom Isarangkul Na Ayutthaya (คุณครู ละม่อม อิศรางกูร ณ อยุธยา) and a few other Thai Classical Dancing teachers were invited to teach royal dancers at the Royal Cambodian Court and created numbers of dances while they were there.

[indrachit]

Mon, Chinese, Indian, Japanese, European, Arabian and even the Burmese and so on had all their shares! Putting in this way, In the last 200 years, there is no evidence that my great great great grandmasters and mistresses in Thai Classical Dance were neither Cambodian nor learnt how to dance in Cambodia.

[indrachit]

Critics and Scholars still debate about how Khon performance in our Ayutthaya would have looked like because there is not any concrete evidence left after Ayutthaya was sacked by the Burmese other than a few lines in historic journal of a few western visitor s to the Kingdom of Ayuddhaya. Therefore, do not presume that everythings that made up the Thai Culture derived from Cambodia. Khmer are not the only culture inspired the evolution of Siamese culture.

[indrachit]

I filmed this video myself and I don't speak Cambodian. I don't know what part of it is Cambodian. I admit that King Sampraya of Ayutthaya Kingdom may had had sacked the Khmer Phrea Nakorn and invited many scholars and artists to Siam and King Prasarttong did just the same almost 200 yeas later. Unfortunately, I was not born in time to be able to point out what kind of art and culture Siamese took from the Great Khmer Empire and how they looked like.