Thai Khon mask and Young Dancers at Wat Pho, Bangkok | THAILAND 🇹🇭
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✦ Thailand - Bangkok - Temple - dancers wearing gorgeous garments, masks, and precious jewels.
The most famous art form is the dance-drama, the Khon-dance.
©️ Photographer: W. Gircke- 1920s.
The most famous art form is the dance-drama, the Khon-dance (Photo: Gircke/ullstein bild via Getty Images)
✨ Link: https://www.gettyimages.com/photos/bangkok-1920
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✦ Khon is special because it is a form of performing art that we can do research about its past in many aspects such as from political point from Monarchy to democracy, religious belief, music, costume, painting, drawing, the relationship between neighbouring countries by Ramayana story.
👑 Reading online: https://issuu.com/tkri.tu/docs/final-issuu
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✦ Khon, masked dance drama in Thailand.
Inscribed in 2018 on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
✦ Khon, the Khon Masked Dance Drama in Thailand, is a performing art that combines musical, vocal, literary, dance, ritual, and handicraft elements. Khon performances which involve graceful dance movements, instrumental and vocal renditions, and glittering costumes – depict the glory of Rama, the hero, and incarnation of the god Vishnu, who brings order and justice to the world.
✨ Link: https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/khon-masked-dance-drama-in-thailand-01385