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Prumsodun Ok

  • October 15, 2010

    The Audience Reacts: Opening night of Performing Diaspora 2010

    12:15 AM ByShamsher
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  • October 14, 2010

    Performing Diaspora: Sri Susilowati with Prumsodun Ok

    8:00 PM ByErica Dixon
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    What happens when the Indonesian fertility goddess visits a cafeteria in the deep south? The goddess makes sure rice crops grow and is appeased through dance. Dewi Sri at the Picadilly is a one-woman dialogue with dance and spoken word to address the meaning of food and body image for dancers.

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  • November 11, 2009

    Dear Callie – Prumsodun Ok for Performing Diaspora

    7:16 AM ByPrumsodun
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    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 […]

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  • October 29, 2009

    An Offering – Prumsodun Ok for Performing Diaspora

    1:36 PM ByPrumsodun
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    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 […]

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  • August 20, 2009

    Approaching the Feminine – Prumsodun Ok for Performing Diaspora

    4:41 AM ByPrumsodun
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    “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 […]

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  • May 20, 2009

    Neang Sovann Atmani – Prumsodun Ok for Performing Diaspora

    2:53 PM ByPrumsodun
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    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.

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