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Thai

Pichet Klunchun Dance Company

Khon as a form of performing arts that originated in the royal courts of Thailand, is an intangible cultural heritage known for its graceful, elaborate dance style. No.60 is the culmination of reknowned Thai choreographer Pichet Klunchun’s two-decades-long research into the language of traditional Khon dance. Stripping the classical form of its face-mask and sequined costume, Pichet scrutinizes the 59 poses and movements in the Theppanom canon which all Thai classical dancers acquire by rote-learning. From his own classical dance training since young, Pichet came to believe how traditional system limited dancers' creativity and started to seek a potential No.60 to break the ancient restriction. He decontructed the canon using diverse fields of knowledge such as architecture and physics, then generates six new principles that undergird the 700-year-old system and presents a manual of hand-drawn diagrams and notes that allows the young generation to think and learn rationally, free of mysticism and ideological imposition of history. As No.60 unfixes the rigidity of classicism, it also embraces the sense and soul of Thai legacy. It unfolds a complex dialogue between tradition and innovation as they inhabit and circulate within the same continuum. （Co-presented by ACT Shanghai Contemporary Theatre Festival and Dance Out of Box Festival）