CocoonDance’s productions are ideally both research and art projects, integrating mediation work, artistic research and production in a more coherent way. “Mo[ram]lam” is conceived as an exchange in which we performers, make music, learn and experiment together. The aim is to explore new working practices, to enter into a dialogue that expands one’s perspective to the undiscovered. Diversity and collaborative artistic interplay are primary. CocoonDance is known for its collaborative, process-oriented working method, and this approach forms the artistic basis of the piece. Creative experiments with movement have emerged from the collaborative research of workshops with multiple performative universes.

Like CocoonDance’s previous projects, “Mo[ram]lam” is based on the strategy of exchange and the working glossary, but for CocoonDance it also includes new topics and fields of research, exploring the building and use of musical structures, the voice as a bodily organ and part of the body, and communication within a chorus of Thai Mo-lam singers, musicians and dancers.

Mo-lam artists have a talent for reinterpretation. They respond to influences, cultural changes and commercialisation through hybridisation, skilfully integrating Western genres and trends with very strong traditional local origins. Influenced by a variety of cultural and musical idioms, Mo-lam is dynamically evolving, branching out into numerous styles and formats, and committed to interdisciplinary and intercultural fusion with Western contemporary dance.

Credit
Direction, Choreography : Rafaële Giovanola, Jitti Chompee
Artists: Justin F. Kennedy, Cristina Commisso, Bojana Mitrovic, Louis Thuriot, Álvaro Esteban,
Nora Montsecour, Marin Lemic
Molam artists: Arthit Khamhongsa, Sombat Simla, Pongsapon Upani
Light designer: Jan Wiesbrock, Sound design: Szymon Wojcik
Dramaturgy: Rainald Endrass, Costumes: Fa-Hsuan Chen
Production management, Administration: Marcus Bomski, Management: Aurélie Martin
A CocoonDance Company production in co-production with Unfolding Kafka Festival Bangkok, Kunstfest Weimar, Pumpenhaus Münster, Theater im Ballsaal Bonn Supported by Ringlokschuppen Ruhr Mülheim Funded by Kunststiftung NRW, Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Fonds Darstellende Künste aus Mitteln der Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien im Rahmen von NEUSTART KULTUR, Bundesstadt Bonn
Local support to this project in Bangkok by The Goethe-Institut Thailand, The James H.W. Thompson Foundation, Jim Thompson Art Center and Unfolding Kafka Festival 2024

Date and Time: 20-21 Nov 2024 at 19:30
Venue: Sodsai Pantoomkomol Centre for Dramatic Arts