Ajarn Somsak Tadti

Ajarn Somsak Tadti is one of the most senior teachers/artists and a specialist in the art of Khon Dance Drama practice (Giant Character) in the present. He was trained by great masters of the Thai Classical Dance Drama and graduated with an MA in Performance Arts from Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok. Ajarn Somsak is also an enthusiastic researcher and took part in many subjects involving Khon performance such as the making of Khon masks, dance costumes, and music. He was one of the 2nd generation artists who was granted with the royal permission from the present King of Thailand to inherit the “Phra Pirab” Choreograph set, the most prestigious and sacred choreograph set of the art of the Thai Classical Dance and Drama. Along his artistic work history, he had created and reinvented many masterpieces such as Ron Norasingha dance suite (The Heavenly Lion man dance suite) a long lost dance suite, the Rum long-Soang-Tone (costume preparation/dressing up process dance) for the giant character and many more. In the present, Ajarn Somsak is working as a level 9 specialist instructor at the College of Dramatic Arts