Mo[ram]lam

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 exchange strategy and the working glossary. Still, CocoonDance also includes new research topics, 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 Molam singers, musicians, and dancers.

Molam 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, Molam is dynamically evolving, branching out into numerous styles and formats, and committed to interdisciplinary and intercultural fusion with Western contemporary dance.