TY  - JOUR
T1  - Corporeality of Ballet as an Alien Dance Form in the Context of I-San Social Culture: Cultural
Identity, Cultural Transmission and the Otherness of Bodily Experiences through the Concept
of West Meets East
AU - Phanlukthao, Peera 
JO  - Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences
VL  - 15
IS  - 10
SP  - 2287
EP  - 2293
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1816-949x
DO  - jeasci.2020.2287.2293
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=jeasci.2020.2287.2293
KW  - Corporeality of ballet
KW  -cultural identity
KW  -cultural transmission
KW  -West meets East
KW  -Thailand
AB  - This qualitative research aims to analytical
study the cultural identity through the position of ballet in
the context of Northeastern region (known as I-San
region) of Thailand to investigate the cultural
transmission of ballet (West) that has covered its meaning
to the Thai-body (East) giving a new meaning to the Thai
bodily culture and to analyze the conditions of peculiarity
of bodily experiences, through the concept of West meets
east in the context of ballet pedagogy. The study was
conducted at the Department of Performing Arts,
Mahasarakham University, Thailand. The relevant
research data were methodologically analyzed after they
were significantly collected. The research is presented by
the descriptive analysis. The results indicate that the form
of ballet is considered as Western entertaining dance form
which does not belong to the Thai tradition. The
stereotype and status quo of ballet in the Northeastern
Thailand has gradually been a part of the society even
though it is an alien dance form that has been introduced
to the context of the Northeastern Thailand. It is because
ballet has been persuasively served the Northeastern
society such as providing cultural entertainment to people
and its community and involving cultural events and
education. The ballet pedagogy at the Department of
Performing Arts, Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts,
Mahasarakham University, Thailand has been subtlety
manipulated to suit the background of students whose
experiences were considered as non-ballet experiences
and being dominant with traditional dance in Thailand due
to their ability of ballet perception and praxis in ballet are
narrowly limited and unfamiliarity before they were
enrolling to become students at the Department of
Performing Arts, Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts,
Mahasarakham University and the corporeality of ballet
suggests that the body of I-San dancers who are currently
studying in majoring ballet are considered as the body of
I-San culture and its origin derives from the East culture
but encoding w ith the meaning of ballet as Western
culture. Therefore, bodily experiences in the body of
I-San dancers have been transforming its meaning from
the East into Western culture but remained a sense of
original cultural body known as East I-San.
ER  -