The Pidan: The Creation of Thai Contemporary Folk Dance from Belief in Pidan Textiles

Abstract

          This article is aimed to create the contemporary folk dance from belief in PIDAN textiles. There are steps from researching that lead to thinking processes, developing and creating neatly exceptional works and procedures to implement educational methods. Data article was analyzed and used as a guidance to create the contemporary folk dance which the principle idea comes from the Khmer culture and their cultural heritage of weaving from the ancient. A type of weaving is called “PIDAN textiles”. It is the fabric woven for offering to Buddha, woven with a Mudmee. The patterns that appear are stories about Buddhism, by using it to attach the celling over the image and hang at religious places. In this beautiful creation, there is a form of acting to present to a woman who is weaving with love, expectation, time, emptiness, heaven ritual, industriousness, and the dedication of weaver. The creation of this show uses the creative theory according to the step which are the idea of artistic dance, determination of concept, data processing, define scope, configuration, defining other elements, the design of artistic dance and evaluation of posture design, movement, music, showing equipment and costume. The traditional culture of ancient Khmer people in Thailand was used in creating show elements. In addition, this show is presented to the experts for evaluation and to improve the creation of showing for next time.