Lakhone ( ລະຄອນ ) dances are usually only performed by females, but male lakhone dancers are not unknown.

Lao classical dance has two main forms, khone and lakhone.

Masked dancers about to perform a khon dance-drama based on the Phra Lak Phra Ram. Khon ( ໂຂນ ) is the most stylised of the Lao dance-dramas, with troupes of male and female dancers in elaborate costumes and masks performing very graceful movements demonstrating their great flexibility, and very common dance-drama form for the Phra Lak Phra Ram.

There are precedents for popular musical dance-dramas in gamuguk popular in Goryeo times, with some 21st-century concert revivals.

There are mainly two types of dances ( or dance-dramas ), the classical dances performed in the royal courts and the folk dances now associated with morlam.

The dance-dramas and musical accompaniment are all very similar to those of Thai and Cambodian classical dances.

The rendition style of Sopanam, though basically a temple art, also extends to providing audio accompaniment to traditional Kerala dance-dramas like Kathakali, Krishnanattam and Ashtapadiyattam besides as devotional music in Kalam pattu and dramatic music in Mudiyettu.

There is more variety of dance-dramas performed in the Lakhon tradition.

Rabindra nritya natya is the term given to the three dance-dramas composed by Bengal's poet laureate Rabindranath Tagore: Chitrangada, Chandalika and Shyama.

Poet Rabindranath Tagore developed a dance genre popularly known as Rabindra Nritya Natya — dance-dramas composed by him.

Lao culture has always been oral and visual, and oral tales were often codified into elaborate dance-dramas by the royal courts.

The Bhagavathar Melas, a series of dance-dramas, written almost entirely in Telugu, were introduced by migrants who sought refuge in the town of Melattur following the collapse of the Vijayanagar kingdom at the Battle of Talikota.

" Sanskrit dramas were known as natya, derived from the root word nrit ( dance ), characterizing them as spectacular dance-dramas which has continued in Indian cinema.

* Wayang shadow puppets and classical dance-dramas of Indonesia, Cambodia and Thailand took stories from episodes of Ramayana and Mahabharata.

The Bhavai evolved into one of India's most energetic folk music and dance-dramas.

The dance-dramas of Laos were originally only performed for the royal court.

Instead of each dancer portraying an individual character, such as the Khon dance-dramas, the dancers mimic the scene and events together.

His work is now widely considered to show excellent control of the visuals, extending from lighting and framing to costumes and sets that are saturated with symbolism and shot through with subtle barbs of irony.

By using costumes, drama and symbolism, tournaments became a form of art, which raised the expenses for these events considerably.

The costumes, as well as the play's symbolism, are relics of an ancient and obscure original-perhaps the earliest performers were clad in leaves or skins, symbolizing the death and rebirth of nature.

It is frequently traced to the symbolism of evergreen trees in supposed " pre-Christian winter rites ", especially with the story of the Donar Oak and Saint Boniface.

Perhaps in our generation the counsel of our Talmudic sages may seem superfluous, for today the story of our enslavement in Egypt is kept alive not only by ritualistic symbolism, but even more so by tragic realism.

They point to the symbolism of wine and the importance it held in the mythology surrounding both Dionysus and Jesus Christ ; Wick argues that the use of wine symbolism in the Gospel of John, including the story of the Marriage at Cana at which Jesus turns water into wine, was intended to show Jesus as superior to Dionysus.

In Scorsese on Scorsese the director mentions the religious symbolism in the story comparing Bickle to a saint who wants to clean up both life and his mind.

Exploring the mythological and visual symbolism of the Minotaur, Ariadne and the labyrinthine structure of the maze, Minotaur-The Island echoes the story of Ariadne, Mistress of the Labyrinth, abandoned on the island of Naxos by Theseus.

" While the Kabbalah story arc, and the positive explanations of Moore's philosophy, very explicitly explain, talking-head style, the symbolism behind the details of every plane of existence, Promethea also contains critiques of materialism which are much more subtle.

Perhaps in our generation the counsel of our Talmudic sages may seem superfluous, for today the story of our enslavement in Egypt is kept alive not only by ritualistic symbolism, but even more so by tragic realism.

The plot also shows some parallels with an earlier murder mystery story by the English novelist Sarah Burney The Hermitage ( 1839 ): the return of a childhood companion, the sexual symbolism of defloration implied in the crime, and almost catatonic reactions of the heroine to it, for instance but The Moonstone introduces in novel form, as opposed to Poe's short story form, a number of elements that were to become classic attributes of the twentieth-century detective story:

She uses the symbolism of the Kitchen god's story and uses it as a parallel towards modern day life.

When the Sacred Image leaves Icoaraci in the event's official ship, a Navy Corvette, it is followed by tens of boats and ships of all colors and types, decorated to greet the Virgin and follow her through the waters of the Guajará Bay to the pier of Belém, where it will be escorted by motorcyclists all the way to the Gentil Bittencourt School, only leaving at 6 pm for the Trasladação ( Transfer ), which is a symbolism for reviving the story of the discovery of the Saint and its return to the place where it was found, in a candle-lit procession, following the Carriage that is tied to a rope that is carried by the faithful until it arrives at the Sé Cathedral.

The story is considered to be an archetype of symbolism in science fiction.

Furthermore, Knight argues, the first part of the story, which contains all the intercourse symbolism, is told backwards.

Artist Leonard French, who designed a stain glass ceiling of the National Gallery of Victoria has drawn heavily on Christian story and symbolism through his career.

The story is nevertheless full of mythological, historical, artistic and political references, symbolism and subliminal imagery.

Pullman's allegories are tied together by surface story symbolism depicting warfare between knowledge and religious superstition.

Symbolism was very important in painting at the time, and the use of Ovid's characters, combined with proper use of artist symbolism allowed the artist to tell a specific story.

Whether or not this story is true, the symbolism for the Cynics is that it demonstrated the worthlessness of Metrocles ' education up until that time.

As published, the story is highly praised for its blend of realism and surrealism, the thematic exploration of suburban America, especially the relationship between wealth and happiness, as well as his use of myth and symbolism.

The story probably rests on the fact that in the symbolism of Egypt the mouse implied destruction.

* Article entitled " Wounded Masculinity: Parsifal and The Fisher King Wound " The symbolism of the story as it relates to the Wounded Masculinity of Men by Richard Sanderson M. Ed., B. A.

He who can understand that the story of his higher nature is imbedded in this symbolism will receive intimations concerning a great awakening that is possible, and will know that after the sacred Mystery of Death there is a glorious Mystery of Resurrection.

Accordingly, Qlippothic symbolism ( i. e. colors ) appear throughout the story.