Photograph A — before — TH 001 / 060 Khon — โขน · Featured plate Bangkok · 24mm · 2025

Photograph B — after — TH 001 / 060 Khon — โขน · Featured plate Bangkok · 24mm · 2025

Remapping Tradition

Embodied Knowledge of Southeast Asia

Rather than simply preserving traditional dance as cultural heritage, Remapping Tradition explores dance as a living system of embodied knowledge that continues to evolve. Through collaboration with artists and scholars across Southeast Asia, the project documents movement practices, analyses their underlying principles, and translates them into visual and digital forms to create an open-access platform for learning, exchange, and future creation.

Inspired by No. 60, a choreographic methodology developed by Pichet Klunchun, the project uses movement analysis not to standardise traditions, but to reveal the unique logic and potential embedded within each practice.

The Origin of No. 60 Thailand

01 / TH Khon ◇ 02 / MM Kabyar Lut ◇ 03 / LA Lao Theung ◇ 04 / VN Tuồng ◇ 05 / PH Igal ◇ 06 / MY Terinai ◇ 07 / SG Bharatnatyam ◇ 08 / BN Jipin Laila Sembah (Zapin) ◇ 09 / ID Klana Topeng ◇ 01 / TH Khon ◇ 02 / MM Kabyar Lut ◇ 03 / LA Lao Theung ◇ 04 / VN Tuồng ◇ 05 / PH Igal ◇ 06 / MY Terinai ◇ 07 / SG Bharatnatyam ◇ 08 / BN Jipin Laila Sembah (Zapin) ◇ 09 / ID Klana Topeng ◇

§ The Origin of No. 60

Reimagining Tradition for the Future

Southeast Asia is home to some of the world's richest and most diverse dance traditions. Yet much of this knowledge remains fragile, fragmented, and increasingly disconnected from contemporary life.

Remapping Tradition in Southeast Asia is a regional initiative led by Pichet Klunchun Dance Company (PKDC) that approaches traditional dance not simply as cultural heritage to preserve, but as a living system of embodied knowledge that can be documented, analysed, shared, and reimagined for future generations.

The project brings together dance artists, scholars, educators, and creative practitioners from across Southeast Asia to explore how traditional movement knowledge can continue to evolve within contemporary contexts.

9 chapters

9 dance forms

300+ positions

∞ open framework

§ About the Project

The No. 60 Methodology

Southeast Asia is home to some of the world's richest and most diverse dance traditions. Yet much of this knowledge remains fragile, fragmented, and increasingly disconnected from contemporary life.

Remapping Tradition in Southeast Asia is a regional initiative led by Pichet Klunchun Dance Company (PKDC) that approaches traditional dance not simply as cultural heritage to preserve, but as a living system of embodied knowledge that can be documented, analysed, shared, and reimagined for future generations.

01 · Past

The Root of Movement

Before the stage, the costume or the audience — the principles that decide how the body stands, steps and turns.

02 · Present

The Diagram

Sixty foundational positions, photographed and remapped into diagrams — the structural logic a practitioner has always carried in the body.

03 · Future

Contemporary Application

As dance meets data, animation and AI, the archive asks how new tools can preserve, teach and reimagine classical movement.