THAI DRAMATIC DANCE CREATION ARTS AND CRAFTS IN PATHUM THANI

Abstract

This craftmanship performances in Pathum Thani province that inspired by educated Mon people from ethnic group as known as Mon people in Pathum Thani Province. Discovered that the Mon’s Samkok community has a long history. The evidence found that Pathum Thani Province was a source of pottery production in the past and found an ancient kiln aged about 252 years and is a famous and popular pottery production jar which people call this pottery by "Tum E-lenge". In the past, people were used to store water for consumption, but with social prosperity, the context of the use of the pottery had changed. The Phra Udom Pottery Community Enterprise Group, therefore developed the pottery into an artwork to preserve and carry on the importance of the pottery in the past by creating artwork in the form regarding Benjasiri pottery style by using the normal pottery to develop into a beautiful craftsmanship and generating income for the people in the community.

The creator of this performances was inspired to create a performance set by presentation work of the The Phra Udom Pottery Community Enterprise Group to contribute to the importance and history of the "pottery" that almost to disappear by the development of society and culture that changes according to the globalization. This performance was created in the Thai dance style, combining the Mon dance style which is typical of the Thai-Mon ethnicity that deliver from generation to generation by composing songs told through the process of molding the pottery into creation of craftsmanship by the community enterprise group. The costumes were finely created according to Mon’s esthetic style in Pathum Thani Province.