The 3rd Amrita Dance Platform, 2014
Knot
Choreographer Yon Davy
Saturday November 1, 2014
Venue: Department of Performing Arts
Yon Davy is creating Knot that portrays relationship between two people, mother and son. Based on her own story, Davy concentrates on the relationship complexity between mother and son through text, movement, and prop. Davy would like also to explore for partnering in dance by comparing and contrasting between her folkloric trained dance with her new experimentation.
Dancers Yon Chantha, Chy Ratana (Leak) and Chun Oudum
Composer Venta Protesix
Costume Designer Chhun Maleang
Yon Davy (Choreographer), Yon Davy studied both classical and folkloric dance. Davy has always had a strong interest in contemporary dance and has been involved with workshops and performances with numerous choreographers including Emmanuèle Phuon, Bob Ruijzendaal, Peter Chin, Arco Renz and others and was a recipient of residency study grants for contemporary dance and choreography at the Taiwan National University of the Arts and in Surabaya. Davy holds a degree in business management alongside her dance activities.
Yon Chantha (Dancer) began her training in classical dance in 1993. Chantha has a strong interest in contemporary dance and has been involved with workshops and performances with Arco Renz, Cynthia Ling Lee, Chumvan Sodhachivy and Nam Narim. She has also performed extensively with the Sovanna Phum Khmer Association, an independent dance and puppetry theater in Phnom Penh, where she was given numerous opportunities to participate in contemporary dance workshops. Chantha is also an artist of the Department of Performing Arts in Phnom Penh.
Chy Ratana (Leak) (Dancer), graduated from the Secondary School of Fine Arts with a Baccalaureate in 2000, specializing in the monkey role of the Lakhaon Kaol (Cambodian male masked dance) form and in 2012 was awarded a BA degree in choreographic arts at the Royal University of Fine Arts, Phnom Penh. In 2006, Leak developed a strong interest in contemporary dance and since then has been a featured dancer in works by Emmanuèle Phuon, Peter Chin, Arco Renz, Chung Yoen Soo and others which have toured internationally. He remains faithful to his traditional skills but he is also eager to further develop as a contemporary dancer. Leak also enjoys performing as an actor and was recently a featured character in Loy 9 – a new Cambodian TV drama. Leak was a featured dancer in CRACK – a new work of Cambodian contemporary dance by German choreographer Arco Renz when it was awarded the 2012 ZKB Patronage Prize in Zurich Switzerland in September 2012, Olden New Golden Blue by Peter Chin at Season of Cambodia Festival New York in April 2013, and Khmeropedies III: Source/Primate by Emmanuèle Phuon at the da:ns Festival in Singapore in October 2013.
Chun Oudom,
Amrita Performing Arts proudly presents the 3rd Amrita Dance Platform, 2014. "Relationship" is the theme of tonight performance, which comprised of 3 interested works-in-process of our very own Amrita artists, Nget Rady, Yon Davy, and Hou Cheychanrith. Within these last six weeks, the three up-rising choreographers worked intensively with their dancers and collaborators.
Amrita Performing Arts produces the dance platform with the aim of reducing the gap between the products on stage and audiences, and we hope to provide place for Amrita artists to present their works in front of the very eyes of the public as a way to communicate and establish relationship with the larger community. We, Amrita Team, would like to offer this dance platform as a contribution to our cultural and vibrant City of Phnom Penh and Phnom Penh (pep).
I look at the Dance Platform as a space where people from different backgrounds and artists from various disciplines to share experience and moment together. It is a place that allows new voices to be heard, questions to be asked, ideas and thoughts to be expressed, and story to be told. I personally encourage artists from different practices and the diverse audiences to use this event to get to know one another, to begin your conversation, and to continue your participation in art. To me, the products on stage are not as important as the process of making the products and the togetherness moment.
Chey Chankethya
Artistic Director
Amrita Performing Arts is an International NGO based in Phnom Penh, with US nonprofit status. Amrita is committed to the creation of Cambodian contemporary dance and theater, responding to the creative drive of a young generation of artists who have taken on the task of ushering Cambodia's ancient performing arts heritage into the future. Our work is developed through workshops based on intensive exchange and dialogue with international collaborators. All of our efforts emphasize capacity building as we assist in nurturing a new generation of Cambodian choreographers, directors and practitioners in all areas of arts management.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
We would like to thank the following individual for their contribution to making this platform possible: Arco Renz, Peter Chin, Proeung Chhieng, Sal Murgiyanto and Anders Jiras. Thanks also goes to the Indonesian Dance Festival (IDF) and The Embassy of Republic of Indonesia for their support.