🇹🇭 THAILAND | "รองเง็ง: Rong-Ngeng" Dance in the Southern region

รองเง็ง ภาคใต้ 📷Credit: Thanawat Promsuk (Banong บานง) #บานงสตูดิโอ

🔸 Rong Ngeng Dance Thai Performance from Southern region.

✦ The Rong Ngeng or Rong Ngeng Tanyong is a folk performance of Thai Southerners who live on the west coast in the Trang, Phang-Nga, or Phuket districts. It typically consists of 1–2 performers who sing andor dance in a “call and response” manner. When there is one main singer, their spouse portion can be provided by a backing group of singers or informally by members of the audience. Additionally, since it is a community performance, spontaneous audience participation is common as well.
✦ It is popular amongst both Buddhist and Muslim villages. The characteristics of the Rong Ngeng are evidently a mixture of the local southern Thai and Malaysian cultures with the use of Malay words in the lyrics and the merger of Malaysian rhythm sets.

The Malaysian song that accompanies this performance is called The Tanyong song because each line of the lyrics always lyrics were in the Malay language, which was difficult for the local Thai audience to understand. Consequently, the lyrics were eventually adapted into Thai with the inclusion of the So U and the small single-sided Rammana drum instrument to help energize the dancing. In today’sRong Ngeng band, the So U (ซออู้) has been replaced by a violin and sometimes a Western-style tambourine will be used if aRammana is not available.

✦ This popular performance hasn’t just been limited to the Thai-Muslim communities but it is also enjoyed by the Thai Buddhists in the area. This is made evident by the fact that for an ordination auspicious ceremony, the Thai Buddhists often hire a Rong Ngeng band to accompany their ceremony while most of the dancers are Thai. The Malay RongNgeng performers sing the translated Thai version of the lyrics. The Rong Ngeng therefore, is a clear example of the blending of the Thai-Muslim and Thai-Buddhist cultures.

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