Cambodian Dancers Return to US
Dance, the Spirit of Cambodia, a project of the Royal University of Fine Arts, Phnom Penh will present classical and folk dance and music from Cambodia during its 12-city US tour August 11-September 29, 2001. This coast-to-coast tour by the 41-member troupe marks the first time in more than a decade that the living traditions of Cambodian music and dance have formally toured in the US. (Their previous visit was sponsored by the Fund for Reconciliation and Development).
Highlights include week-long performance engagements at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival (Becket, MA) and New York City's Joyce Theater. Following engagements in the west, the tour concludes at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC.
This project, initiated and produced by the New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) in partnership with the Asia Society and Lisa Booth Management, Inc., is a public celebration of more than a decade of documentation, preservation and cultural exchange fostered between the Royal University of Fine Arts, US presenters and Cambodian-American communities in order to rebuild Cambodia's cultural infrastructure.
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Repertory for the scheduled 28 public performances on tour will include dance and music from Cambodia's folk and classical traditions and an extended excerpt from the Reamker dance-drama.
The project is made possible with funding from the National Dance Project, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, Rockefeller Foundation, the Asian Cultural Council, and the Fund for Folk Culture.
For additional information, visit the project's web site (after April 14) at www.asiasource.org/cambodia.
The schedule of performances is:
Middletown, CT, Aug 11
Beckett, MA, Aug 15-19
New York, NY, Aug 21-26
Portland, ME, Aug 29
Lowell, MA, Aug 31-Sep 1
Berkeley, CA, Sep 8 & 9
Long Beach, CA, Sep 12 & 13
Tucson, AZ, Sep 15
Austin, TX, Sep 18
Lawrence, KS, Sep 22
Hanover, MA, Sep 25
Washington, DC, Sep 28 & 29
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