Khmer Arts Salon Series: The Tenth Dancer
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Join Prumsodun Ok and the Khmer Arts Academy community for Sally Ingleton's "The Tenth Dancer", an intimate portrait of the relationship between a teacher and her student as they work to revive the art of Cambodian classical dance. Set in war-torn Cambodia, it follows Em Theay, then director of the National Dance Company of Cambodia, and her student Pen Sok Chea through their memories and homes, rehearsals and performances to make visible the devastating realities of war - offering a glimpse of the rebirth of Cambodia's arts and the revival of the spirits of its land and people. The film is fifty-five minutes long, in Khmer and English with English subtitles. From 1975 - 1979, Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge followers decimated Cambodia's cultural, economic, and social infrastructures. Those with ties to education, elite society, and religion were targeted for execution in order to birth a new peasant society based on rice production. RSVP by email with Prumsodun Ok RSVP by phone with Serey Tep Limited capacity with street parking only For more information visit Khmer Arts Academy SALLY INGLETON is an Australian filmmaker. Her 360 Degree films is an energetic film and television production company based in Melbourne, Australia. From there, its work reaches across the globe telling revealing factual stories about our secret history, our contemporary lives and our environmentally challenged future. PRUMSODUN OK (Curator, Media Artist) is a teacher, dancer, choreographer, video maker and designer who was born and raised in the Long Beach Cambodian community. He has studied classical dance with Sophilne Cheam Shapiro in Long Beach and Cambodia, and with Charya Burt in Northern California. He has performed on stages throughout the state and, while a student at the San Francisco Art Institute, produced and curated that institution's first-ever performing arts series. He is the director of NATYARASA and most recently received a Durfee Artists' Resource for Completion Grant, the 2009 Margaret McKinney Folk and Traditional Arts Fellowship awarded by the Arts Council for Long Beach and the City of Long Beach, and has participated in the Alliance for California Traditional Arts' Traditional Arts Development Program with Sophiline Cheam Shapiro. |
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