การแสดงที่ผสมผสานการฟ้อนล้านนา การเต้นรำร่วมสมัยในหลากหลายรูปแบบ กับเทคนิคการใช้สื่อผสม นำมาร้อยเรียงเพื่อบอกเล่าเรื่องราวของการ ”เลือก“ ที่จะเป็นสิ่งใดในชีวิต และ “เลือก” ที่จะแสดงออกถึงอัตลักษณ์ของตนเองDance The Utopia ต้องการสื่อให้เห็นถึงแนวคิดที่แตกต่างของแต่ละปัจเจกบุคคลที่มีต่อปรัชญาของโลกในอุดมคติ การเต้นรำในอุดมคติ และการแสดงออกทางการเคลื่อนไหวที่สะท้อนถึงโลกในฝันที่ไร้ข้อจำกัด เน้นภาพของความหวัง ความฝัน หรือการต่อต้านกรอบเดิมของโลกจริง Dance The Utopia ยังเป็นสัญลักษณ์ของอิสรภาพ ผ่านร่างกายและการเคลื่อนไหวA performance that weaves together the grace of Lanna dance, the fluidity of contemporary movement in its many forms, and the expressive power of multimedia art. Each element is interlaced to tell a story of the choice to become who we wish to be in life, and the choice to express our unique identity.Dance The Utopia embodies the diverse perspectives each individual holds toward the philosophy of an ideal world, the dream of an ideal dance, and the boundless language of movement. It reflects a vision of hope, of dreams, and of breaking free from the constraints of reality.Above all, Dance The Utopia stands as a symbol of freedom: freedom made visible through the body and through movement. Waewdao Sirisook received a SILPATORN Awards 2024, an honor for living Thai contemporary artists presented annually by the Office of Contemporary Art and Culture, Ministry of Culture of Thailand, to promote Thai contemporary artists who are considered to be in their mid-career and who have already made notable contributions to Thai fine arts and culture. Waewdao holds an MFA in Dance from the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures and a BFA from Chiang Mai University’s Thai Arts program, and also studied Balinese dance in Bali, Indonesia.As a professional traditional and contemporary dancer, Waewdao has participated in international cultural exchange programs with the Tourism Authority of Thailand since the age of 19, performing in dozens of cultural missions throughout Europe, North America, and Asia. Her work focuses on expressing the diversity of her native traditional Lanna arts and culture, maintaining its roots and bringing it to diverse audiences. Waewdao received a fellowship to participate in the Asian Pacific Performance Exchange 2006 and has received fellowship funding for study and research in the United States for three years in a row by the Asian Cultural Council.Waewdao was a manager at Creative Lanna and Lanna Wisdom School, a guest lecturer at the Music and Performing Arts Program, Chiang Mai University, teaching artist-in-residence for the Institute of Southeast Asian Affairs at Chiang Mai University (CMU), as well as an adjunct at the School of Communication Arts, Bangkok University.She also contributed choreography to the Black Eyed Peas video, Boom Boom Pow, and has collaborated with numerous international artists, including new music composer Amy Knoles, and Hiroshi Koike, director of Pappa Tarahumara and Hiroshi Koike Bridge Project, activism Indian puppeteer Anurupa Roy, music composer Andy McGraw, Paul Emerson from CompanyE, an activist David Gere, who wrote the article on The Lanna Dream in the book Sonic Identity at the Margins published by Bloomsbury. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx