The 3rd Amrita Dance Platform, 2014
Tension
Choreographer Nget Rady
Saturday November 1, 2014
Venue: Department of Performing Arts
Nget Rady is reviving his work, Tension. The piece focuses on physical and mental challenges in everyday live. Rady is interested in investigating on how individual and communal force give impact to each other. He would like to explore also the differences between internal and external strength through co-motion of intensity and contact intensification of speed change.
Dancer Rady Nget, Khon Chansithyka, Khon Chansina, Soy Chanborey and Sam Satya
Sound Ryoji Ikeda
Composer Sean Cooper
Costume Designer Chun Rotanak and Pen Sokhun
Nget Rady (Choreographer), Nget Rady began his dance training in 1999, specializing in the monkey role of Lakhaon Kaol, the Cambodian classical male masked dance form. As a classical dancer, Rady has toured to Europe and throughout Asia and as a contemporary dancer has performed in numerous works of contemporary dance as well as participated in many contemporary dance workshops. Rady has already created a number of his own works including The Feeling Street Children. He was a featured dancer in CRACK a new work of Cambodian contemporary dance by German choreographer Arco Renz that was awarded the 2012 ZKB Patronage Prize in Zurich Switzerland in September 2012. He has also worked with established choreographers, Emmanuèle Phuon in Khmeropedies III: Source/Primate at the Guggenheim Museum as part of Season of Cambodia in New York in 2013 and in Temporal Patternby Hiroaki Umeda at the da:ns Festival in Singapore. Rady holds a BA in Choreographic Arts from the Royal University of Fine Arts.
Khon Chan Sithyka (Mo) (Choreographer and Dancer) began his training in Lakhaon Kaol (Cambodian classical male masked dance) in 2002, focusing on the role of the monkey, and completed his training in 2011. Throughout his studies he has performed extensively with the Sovanna Phum Khmer Association. Mo has performed in Stravinsky's Persephone directed by Peter Sellars at the Teatro Real in Madrid, Bach Cello Suite by Chumvan Sodhachivy (Belle) and Nam Narim in Taiwan, Thailand and Malaysia, Horizontal Life by Chung Yeun Soo in Phnom Penh, and Khmeropedies III: Source/Primate at the Guggenheim Museum as part of Season of Cambodia Festival in April 2013 and at the da:ns Festival in Singapore in October 2013.
Khon Chansina (Nan) (Choreographer and Dancer) began his training in Lakhaon Kaol (Cambodian classical male masked dance) in 2002, focusing on the role of the monkey, and completed his training in 2011. Throughout his studies he has performed extensively with the Sovanna Phum Khmer Association. He has participated in dance workshops with Arco Renz, Eko Supriyanto, and Cynthia Ling Lee. Nan has performed in Bach Cello Suite by Chumvan Sodhachivy (Belle) and Nam Narim in Taiwan, Thailand and Malaysia, Horizontal Life by Chung Yeun Soo in Phnom Penh, and Khmeropedies III: Source/Primate at the Guggenheim Museum as part of Season of Cambodia Festival in April 2013 and at the da:ns Festival in Singapore in October 2013.
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.