Specific Type Of Issan Dance In Bangkok

[agksmehx]

I think there are several types of Issan Dance -- most of them seem to be slow, graceful and performed just as a dance.

However, there is a particular boisterous, lusty form which is usually performed by 2 to 8 girls as accompaniment to merry songs. The key characterstic is that the girls do identical steps in phrases of 8 beats or so and the girl to the front left is the one who chooses the next step. It is very different from the slower graceful ones.

I have seen this dance regularly at a couple of bars in Pattaya. And I saw it during Loy Krathong on a stage in Bangkok.

Two Questions:

1. Where can I find a venue in Bangkok that has the boisterous dance + songs regularly? I want to take a friend to see it.

2. Can somebody find a video of it online so that I have a more precise description of what I am looking for? All the videos when I search for "Issan Dance" seem to be of the slower, classical, and I am afraid rather sleepy / boring kind.

[Semper]

Would it be possible to edit the videos with some software that cuts away every second frame or so?

[IsaanUSA]

Have you tried watching some luk thung or mor lam videos? I dont think "isaan dance" is going to turn up anything useful.