{"id":160,"date":"2017-10-02T16:37:50","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T13:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/?p=160"},"modified":"2026-05-13T17:53:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T14:53:26","slug":"dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/dance\/","title":{"rendered":"Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The dance techniques of the demon and monkey characters generally follow the style of Thai <em>khon<\/em>. The technique of the noble male and female characters is more relaxed compared with <em>khon<\/em>. Finger movements are not so backward bent as in <em>khon<\/em> and, as a whole, the dance seems to be based on <em>ram wong<\/em>, a kind of group folk dance, popular around Laos as well as in Thailand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/lao13.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"602\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/lao13.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-590\" style=\"width:736px\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A <em>Ram wong<\/em> group dance <span>Jukka O. Miettinen<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Ram wong<\/em> is characterised by simple undulating dance movements, while the hands repeat curvy movement patterns. <em>Ram wong<\/em> is part of temple fares and other communal festivities, but it is also performed by the Royal Ballet Theatre. Courtly group dances combine <em>ram wong<\/em> with the gestures and poses of the classical dance of Thailand and Cambodia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/lao14.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"602\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/lao14.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-591\" style=\"width:736px\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A court dance <span>Jukka O. Miettinen<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dance techniques of the demon and monkey characters generally follow the style of Thai [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-laos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4826,"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions\/4826"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}