ABSTRACT
In 2017, the Pichet Klunchun Dance Company shut down to reinvent itself. Since then, company dancers, led by the renowned Thai contemporary dancer and choreographer Pichet Klunchun, reexamined the fundamentals of classical Thai dance to rework it into a new foundation for The company and its ability to develop new work, and to turn it into a distributable system and platform for 21st-century forms of Thai aesthetic embodiment for the 21st century under the name “No. 60.” By developing new experimental work for the stage, a book, videos, movement workshops for international participation, university dance curricula, and other materials, it formed a dance assemblage rooted in the classical Thai dance it reconfigures. The COVID-19 pandemic shifted the components, configurations, trajectory, and workings of the assemblage, which are now connected to collaborative, experimental, and multiplatform projects that stress contemporary vulnerable bodies, mediated by technologies and digitally distributed.
