The Choreography of RumCherd dance in Likay performances. The female protagonist Mrs. Pittsamai Larnhomhuan

Abstract

Likay performance could be identified as one of the Thai performing arts consisted of the various components which have been shuffled according to economical status, for example, the clothes, songs, and music. But the most important things that have never been changed were the knowledge of singing, improvising rhymed verses,and dancing inherited from Likay Master Homhuan .At this point, Viroj Larnhomhuan’s Likay troupe was one of the best maintained the precise identity of Master Homhuan’s the most famous Likay performance. The knowledge of both Master Homhuan and The Master of Thai classical dance from Suankularb palace, Kru Nom Prajayakrit ,was passed on to both Mr. Viroj Larnhomhuan, male protagonist, and Mrs. Pittamai Larnhomhuan, female protagonist.This article, thus, especially focused on the dance process of Mrs. Pittsamai Larnhomhuan who was praised as being the most full capabilities Likay performer in those days.There were five postures in Mrs. Pittsamai Larnhomhuan ‘s Cherd dance: 1)Tang Cherd pose, 2)HomSabai pose, 3)TaCherd pose, 4)ChuckPangPadNa pose, and 5)Ralong pose, which were rare to find in any other Likay troupes. Finally, the process of Cherd dance in Likay performance will be conserved to be as beautiful as the royal court dancing style