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Watch a preview of a "stunning new program" (The New York Times) of Cambodian music and dance created by Cambodian-born choreographer Sophiline Cheam Shapiro in collaboration with Cambodia's Royal University of Fine Arts. The one-night-only engagement is presented by Cal Performances Friday, April 29. (Length 1:00 minute)
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Venue: Zellerbach Hall
Price: $24/$36/$48
Subscription Series: Choose-Your-Own, Winter World Stage Mini-Series
Deeply committed to preserving and reviving the rich cultural traditions of Cambodia, dancer and choreographer Sophiline Cheam Shapiro has created a deeply personal evening of music and dance exploring the cross-cultural experience of migration and "culture shock." Shapiro is one of the first generation of classical dancers to emerge from Phnom Penh's Royal University of Fine Arts (the nation's official arts conservatory) after the Pol Pot genocide, and has received great critical acclaim for her Samritechak — a vibrant, Cambodian re-imagining of Othello — which recently toured to the Hong Kong Arts Festival and Venice Biennale. Paired with the traditional dance drama Ream Eyso & Moni Mekhala ("The God of Thunder and the Goddess of Lightning"), this dazzling program demonstrates how the new emerges from the old and how one brings new perspective to the other. "A beautiful and illuminating bridge between the two cultures," said the Los Angeles Times of Cheam Shapiro's work.
Funded, in part, by the National Dance Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts, with lead funding from National Endowment for the Arts and Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. Additional funding provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and The Ford Foundation.
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Program Notes: Program notes are available online, click here.
Education and Community Events: Sightlines event: Fri, Apr 29, 7-7:30 pm, ZH — Pre-performance talk by choreographer Sophiline Cheam Shapiro
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