THE CREATIVE WORK OF YAN YAE DANCE

Abstract

Yanyae is Chongs’folk Dance in Chanthaburi Province. It reflects the way of Chongs’ life. Its purpose is to entertain the people in the public festival. The purposes of the study were to study the history, the inheritance, the performing composition and the method to perform Yanyae Dance and to create Yanyae Dance. The data were collected from the documents, the textbooks, and the researches and the interviews about the history, the background, the identity, the performing inheritance, the relationship between Yanyae and the ways of Chongs’ lives, the performing composition, the costumes and the performance. The recipients of the interviews were the resource persons and the local wisdoms. The research instruments were the close–ended questionnaires. The data were analyzed to get the knowledge and create the creative dance “Yanyae.” The results of the research were: Yanyae was Chongs’ performance. Chongs were the native people who lived at Moo 4, Khongphlu Sub-District, Khaokitchakud District, Chanthaburi Province. Yanyae had been used as a lullaby song. Its lyrics were the ways of Chongs’ lives, the ideas, the teachings and the beliefs. The singers, both men and women, sang by using their experiences and their imagination to court each other. The musical instruments were the drums, the wooden rhythm clappers and the small cymbals. The performers danced by swaying their arms and stamps their feet rhythmically. The researcher created “Yanyae Dance” into 3 parts: the ceremony of the marriage, the conserving of “Yanyae” singing and finding the mate. The song, RabumYanyae, was newly composed. The costumes were created from Chongs’ clothes. The props that were used to show the ways of Chongs’ lives in the first part of the performance were a bamboo basket containing rice, the bells, the bull and buffalo horns, a sign for calling the villagers to meet, the drums and the white cloth.