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Oct, 2010
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Nov, 2009
Dear Callie – Prumsodun Ok for Performing Diaspora
Prumsodun Ok is a Performing Diaspora Resident Artist at CountePULSE. See him at weekend 3 of Performing Diaspora, November 19-22. Buy tickets now! Dear Callie, I am walking with a bag in my hand. It is small and brown, the head of a teddy bear just barely creeping out at the top. I’ve thought much of my new niece these days: praying to the kru to care for her (even before she was born), asking them to show her the
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Oct, 2009
An Offering – Prumsodun Ok for Performing Diaspora
Prumsodun Ok is a Performing Diaspora Resident Artist at CountePULSE. See him at weekend 3 of Performing Diaspora, November 19-22. Buy tickets now! AN OFFERING Oh Lady, Master of unending grace, Bless me with your beauty, Let me share it with the world. The flowers that adorn you, Give birth to divine secrets, Illusion is shattered, With the power of this knowledge. Show me with your smile, The compassion of the gods. And give me with your eyes, The love
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Aug, 2009
Approaching the Feminine – Prumsodun Ok for Performing Diaspora
"He, who is described as male, is as much the female and the penetrating eye does not fail to see it." - Rigveda It is 4.06 AM. My eyes tell me that I need to sleep but lying in bed is proving useless as thoughts race through my head. I was in Cambodia for ten days, just two days ago and have brought so much back with me. New knowledge, new costumes, new energy, and the pop song that currently
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May, 2009
Neang Sovann Atmani – Prumsodun Ok for Performing Diaspora
A Cambodian classical dancer, when practicing her moving meditation developed over a thousand years ago as a ritual prayer, displays a serpentine grace that is hypnotic and sublime. Her form is supple, her gestures fluid, and she floats in curvilinear paths across the stage. This is no coincidence as the serpent – moving like the waters that bring fertility and sustenance to the land, bridge between heaven and earth, the being in which the first “Cambodian” sovereign took form (in one creation story anyways) – was worshiped prevalently throughout what is now Cambodia before the introduction of major religions. And today, after many generations of refinement, the serpent can still be seen in this highly stylized art form: its scales transformed into a costume’s detail and its function assumed by a human dancer.