Abstract:
The objective of this thesis was to study the form and concepts after the creation of dance inspired by Prophetic Lament for Sri-Ayudhaya. The research was conducted under a combination of qualitative and creative research methods by studying the Thai literary work entitled Prophetic Lament for Sri-Ayudhaya, dance performances relevant to the research topic, and researchers perspective. The instruments comprised related documents and academic textbooks, interviews, seminar, information media, field survey, criteria on artist standard, and researchers personal experiences. Such data were analyzed, synthesized, created a dance performance, summarized, and presented the findings respectively. The results revealed that the creation of a dance from Prophetic Lament for Sri-Ayudhaya could be classified into eight components as follows: 1) performance script design which was divided into three acts namely collapse, calamity, and prosperity and presented in a series of flashbacks; 2) selection of performers with the ability to act and skills in Thai dance together with weapon-based martial arts; 3) dance style which was an integration of everyday movements, following the postmodern dance concept, Thai dance and weapon-based martial arts; 4) costume design which was composed of two sets of outfits: commoners in the Ayutthaya period and Thai royal Khon; 5) stage props and performance craft based on the concept of minimalism clearly conveying symbolic interpretation; 6) sounds and live music performed by a contemporary music band and a Thai classical one called Mahori Khrueng Hok (six instruments included), including Sepa singing style, synthetic sounds created by a computer program, and the performers own voices; 7) performance area which was held at Black Box Theatre, Bangkok University; 8) lights that were used to build up the atmosphere, emotions and mutual feelings. Apart from the aforementioned components, there were also concepts derived from the creation of dance emphasizing four aspects as follows: 1) consideration of the contents of Prophetic Lament for Sri-Ayudhaya by applying the contents of such literary work to the dance creation; 2) consideration of dance creativity by applying the flashback style to storytelling; 3) consideration of symbol application in dance by use of symbolic design reflected in certain dance components, that is, dance style, costume, sounds and music, as well as stage props; 4) consideration of the postmodern dance concept by applying minimalism and simplicity notions to the dance creation. Therefore, all of these findings were consistent with the objective of the thesis.