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PRUMSODUN OK: Gestures of a Khmer Soul
Dressed in the elaborate silks and golds made by Cambodia's leading artisans, dancer, interdisciplinary artist and cultural activist Prumsodun Ok and his exceptional ensemble of guest artists (Charya Burt, Sothavy Khut, and Callie Ok) share stories of reverence and possession, love, departure, transformation and transcendence. This nights performance will open with Trent Walkers performance of Smota haunting style of chanting used to consecrate power and sacralize imagesand will conclude with Prumsodun's world premiere choreography of Robam Santhyea Vehea (Dance of Twilight Sky).
Prumsodun Ok works in film, video, dance, photography, and design. He began his training in Cambodian classical dance with award-winning choreographer Sophiline Cheam Shapiro. Prumsodun has also studied with filmmakers Ernie Gehr, Brook Hinton, Jeanne Liotta, and Sam Green, and, at the San Francisco Art Institute, with composer Charles Boone. He began his samba training with Maisa Duke in San Francisco.
Prumsodun has taught dance and filmmaking extensively throughout California and performed at venues such as the World Festival of Sacred Music and Dance, San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival, Mission Arts and Performance Project, Oakland Museum of California, Western Arts Alliance Conference, and Grand Performances Summer Concert Series. Since 2006, he has directed and produced the SFAI Asian Performance Series, creating a space for performers working in Asian and Asian-based forms; Prumsodun was a featured artist and speaker in its Investigating the Post-Multiculturalism Landscape at CounterPulse in San Francisco.
Prumsoduns in-progress text, Singing with Spirits, is currently being edited in Cambodia and weaves his experience with the histories of the people he encounters in order to explore the relationships between teacher and student, spirit and matter, in a manner that is at once memoir, essay, artist statement, and academic research. He is also currently finishing his first choreographic work, Before Night After Day, which uses the gestural vocabulary of Cambodian classical dance to depict a love scene between two menan effort to make visible silent truths in the Phnom Penh gay community.
Prumsodun Ok is based in Los Angeles, where he teaches Cambodian classical dance at the Khmer Arts Academy. He is the founder and director of NATYARASA, which uses Cambodian classical dance as a means for interdisciplinary artistic exploration and expression.
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LocationThe Red Poppy Art House
2698 Folsom Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
United States
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