I don't think there's much pictures that I could find..but I really like to see images of Laotian dances. Especially the ones that are danced for fun. ^_^

here's a pic from a recent wedding. that's "fawn". its like you dance in a big circle and you move your hands slowly. hard to explain. i should make a video to demonstrate lol.

i wish i had a pic of the square dancing type dance the women do. its pretty koo but i don't know how to do it

Its called....

Lao: Lamvong
Khmer: Roumvong

but Thai... What do the Thai's call it?

And to move real fluidly you gotta be drunk. Oil the hinges with some henessy and your on your way.

Romvong is pretty fun....lol, an old drunk guy dancing is always the best at it. Especially lomleiw..the fast kind?

Ohh i had , my share of Khmer/Lao Weddings. I was so sick of weddings, I ended up makeing it a class project.

We share alot of simular beats and dance moves.

Lao/Khmer: as of follows
Lamvong/Ramvong. The typical general circle dance
Salavan/Saravan, This orginated in Saravan Laos, and inhabitants are of Khmer decent.
Morlam/Kantrum, same thing, different names, different language

Uniqeely Laos
Siphandone, Khonesavane, Tangvai, Phouthai, Luang Phrabang. Uses the Bamboo lute, which is exclusivly Lao.

Uniquely Khmer
Ram kbach, lam lao--> I assumed that this was of Lao origin, but the Lao people say its too fast for them. Khmer dance beats are a bit faster. Lao dance beats are slow and easy going.

To an untrained ear, they all sound the same, but I can tell whats what.

No one can outphase my drunk uncle. He can go non stop, grabbing ladies butts. Very Tance like....old peeps techno.

point_dexter,
where are the laotians of khmer descent from? southern laos? i remember watching the travel channel and it was in laos. there were people who look just like khmer. they didn't look like the typical light skinned laotian. man, khmer people are all over mainland SEAsia but so many of them have been assimilated.

lolz, i remembered my gf did this weird Laos dance once..man she was so cute then.

You know I also love the ones with partners..where u dance face to face, back and fourth to the steps, and you sway hour hands in and out. And dancing with a hott person, and old uncles as well

show some pi fures u guys!

Chuon-Cheat: I heard that the laotians of khmer descent originaled from the khmers who lived in the kingdom of Chen La, i.e. the current Champassack area in the southern part of Laos, which used to be part of the khmer empire. Many of these people (mostly men) migrated towards and intermarried with people (mostly women) from the central and northern parts of Laos. This has given rise to the current population of Laos. The southerners are well-known for being very patriotic citizens. I think the current Lao president and a few other high-ranking Lao officials, mostly those in the army, are from the south.

yea, it was known as Land Chenla or Upper Chenla. also, the khmer king gave Fa Ngum 10,000 soldiers to fight attacking tribes including the siams.

im tryen to find da pictures wit mah friends wen we drank some henessy and we all got drunk and we wuz jus dancen its pretty hilarious im tryen ta find it now and i really want u guys to see it cuz u neva seen TEENS DESE DAIS DRINK HENESSY AND DANCE LIKE IDIOTS AT PARTIES lmfao i wonder how i got my hands on a henessy anyways???

i use to love watching them do the square dance thing too...hehe...and when they go in a circle and the guy tells them to go down to the floor hehe...silly...


these are the same pixz that are in the lao dresses topic...hehe...mah homegurls fauning...

thia long salavan, thia long, thai long salavan, thai long, thai long noi salavan eeeoooyyyyy!!!!!!!

wow, those costumes are similar to the ones in Mindanao, Philippines----




Well, not that similar. I saw a lao dance at a cultural performance once.I enjoyed it.

lmao! that's the jam right there!!!

You must be into cultural arts as well. I think we should form a Traditional Dance clan...I have some dance pictures... ^_^

waddup bukjoy glad to see another lao person knows what im talkin bout.

oeey som onh jernh, rorm lange
som onjernh bros rur srei jass rur kmange mok rom lange saravan et brokan thanak loey.

Sliak kyol saravan sliak kyol,sliak kyol saravan sliak kyol dondobb make saravan oey.


I love that song.

i can't understand cambodian. but i sang it in lao at my homeboiz wedding in arkansas they was jamming to it. in lao it goes, kut nung gam lang chop mai jot aw wai u nai dan don lok low kow ok ma chon lam vong lam vong salavan. salavan look kun. look kun,luk kun salavan, luk kun gon salavan oooeyyy. luk kun leaw ai kow wow sai, tam wa chow nan u tee dai look sow pai, sam poo ngam pan tam song chuwn gam, see shampoo a won tong i kow fak hak nong da la naw oeeey!!!

lol, that song is bomdiggity. 'thia long salavan, thia long' and they go down. 'louk keun salavan, louk keun' and they go up. hahah...thats like a staple at every lao party.

it would be nice to see khmers,laotians and thais romvong or lamvong dancing together to saravan or salavan music.

here are the movements to robam romvong.

it think those instructions are for womens movements. because guys don't move their hands that much.

yea those are for the ladies. the guys don't move their hand that much.

Here's romvong or lomvong at a khmer wedding.

u know i think i cuuld have a good time at a khmer wedding it'd be like a lao wedding but with different words i swear. much better than thai weddings i been to, no offence but they are like wanna be chinese weddings same thing as vietnamese maybe because they got alota chinese influence but i like lao style weddings im sure khmer wedding are similar, i remember a lao wedding i went to that had a half lao/cambo dude he was rockin the mic in both lao and khmer dude was sick then he busted out loso and it was over. best wedding ever. or was it the most liquor ever i don't remember but it was tite.

The most common weddings I've gone to are the ones that usually serve Henessey..if there's no alcohol, they believed that chances are..the wedded couples won't recieve the "gift money" that put in white envelopes as for paying part to replace wedding debts/future..etc.

Heh. Henessey and Heineken mos def. Imma name my boy Henessey. Would anyone disagree if I said alcohol plays a major role at our weddings? Lol. Its a good time to just let go, no? They have a good time, and thats all that matters. The bride and groom also go around with shot glasses and champagne/wine/liquor to show their gratitude to the guests.

But, I don't think I've ever been to a Thai wedding. Is it that different from Lao/Khmer weddings? what do they do?

My grandma's wedding was 2 weeks long and it got the whole village fudged up on berrals on home made rice liquar. What happened to the good ole days?

haha...i thought you said your grandma got married 2 weeks ago...i was like wow people still get married at that age..

damn two weeks? if i was the groom i'd be pissed of waiting for the honeymoon.

Lao call it Lamvong and Thais call it ramwong. Yess i think they are hella fun!lol I mean dancing in circles its pretty cool. There alot of lam in Laos. My family origin is savanh and what is popular lam there is tangvai! ahhah I like lam tangvai and yes ima fob. I dont know where Lam Salavan came from but i think it is tribal people bc salavan is a province that mostly consists of tribal lao-theung. Pple from salavan get offended when you mention salavan and they speak lao different. Its unexplainable. I like there lam alot! tang vai is also tribal village near savanh. That is what my parents told me. Khonesavanh and phuthai i think is the same. In the northern are of laos ppl do not call it lam. They call it Khap. In viengchan what is popular is something called khap nguem. The most popular khap of all time is something they call Khap thung luang phabang and its originally from you know were. I love this one. Its very slow and nice sounding. Pretty good melody.
Ive been to a Lao and khmer lamvong party and it is pretty fun.

you're entries are all very enlightening poindexter =D

hii

there's a lao party that i will be going to, my gf is attending too and im pretty sure that there's going to be some lao dancing. i can't dance for $hit but u gotta learn somewhere. i just wanna try n impress her n show that i can dance

i wonder if there's any sites or videos for me to learn..

^lao music videos.

Go to the temple

I have not read anybody comments.
Just implying to the topic ''Lao Dance''
I think, Lao, Cambodia and Thailand are fairly similar in Music and culture.
I have seen Thai's apsara dance, apart from that, I have no comment.

Ok, IN cambodia, we do have Romvong, Romsaravan, Apara dance etc..............
SO IN Lao, do you have that sort of dance as I listed above.

Regards,

i thought the dance was called "fawn"

My mom told me I should stop dancing cause I wasn't graceful enough (which for the most part is true). LOL.... One day i'll prove my mom wrong... one day

ah...the fon dance..beautiful...sexy sexy pu saos.

They wear too much makeup... if that's your idea of sexy

I know. They wear a thick layer of makeup. Dark people like me even turn white while their body colour stays dark. It looks hilarious.

Everything about the fon dance is sexy; the dance style..the movements..tne regalia etc...its beautiful.

Actually, I thought women with dark complexions look good with Laotian make-up. I thought my friend looked really pretty when she was wearing the Laotian make-up. The Lao girls with light skin do look unattractive though

Ok.. i guess i'll take that as a compliment