“CHAPTER 2” marks Klunchun’s first solo performance in 20 years, following “I AM A DEMON” (2006), in which he deconstructed the aesthetics of classical Thai dance from a contemporary perspective. Onstage, he takes AI as his partner, engaging in a candid dialogue about physicality, expressive capacity, and the collaborative creation of performance. His exploration of the limits of the human body and mind, his reflections on the richness of human emotion, and his masterful dance performance paradoxically reveal the human limitations that make mechanical repetition impossible, offering an ironic answer to the age-old question: “Can a machine dance with emotion?” Having once opened new horizons in the performing arts through a dialogue between the bodily practices and thinking of traditional dance and the history of Western performance, the choreographer now joins AI in writing a new chapter in dance history.
Pichet Klunchun "CHAPTER 2"
- 02.10 [Wed] 19:15
- 02.11 [Thu] 14:15
Pichet Klunchun
"CHAPTER 2"
- Choreographer and performer： Pichet Klunchun
- Set and Lighting design： Pichet Klunchun
- Dramaturg： Fu Kuen Tang
- Stage Manager： Kornkarn Rungsawang
- Producer： Sojirat Singholka
- Commissioned by Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay and making its world premiere in Singapore (this production was presented as part of da:ns focus – Connect Asia Now).：
Pichet Klunchun
Pichet Klunchun is one of Asia’s leading choreographers and dancers. As an inheritor of khon, Thailand’s classical masked dance-drama, he brings its traditional forms and ways of thinking into dialogue with contemporary art. Through this dialogue, and through exchanges between Asian bodily expression and Western dance, he opens new possibilities for the art of dance. He rose to prominence with “Pichet Klunchun and Myself,” created in collaboration with French choreographer Jérôme Bel in 2004, and in 2010 founded