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Interview with Nginn Karet Ravynn, So Chan Nu, Keo Saroeum, 2009-07-17

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Title
Interview with Nginn Karet Ravynn, So Chan Nu, Keo Saroeum, 2009-07-17
Additional title: Cardamom harvest (Choreographic work)
Additional title: Trott dance (Choreographic work)
Additional title: Coconut dance (Choreographic work)
Additional title: Fishing dance (Choreographic work)
Additional title: Scarf dance (Choreographic work)
Additional title: Khmer Dance Project moving image
Names
Prum Mésa (Videographer)
Bru-nut, Hélène Suppya (Director)
Nginn Karet Ravynn (Interviewer)
So Chan Nu (Interviewee)
Keo Saroeum (Interviewee)
Bru-nut, Hélène Suppya (Interviewer)
Majjhamanḍal Khmersiksā (Associated name)
Collection

Khmer Dance Project

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 2009
Table of Contents
Students perform "Cardamom Harvest" dance (7 min.) |||| Nginn Karet speaks (in English) about the creation of the foundation, why the location was chosen, what programs are included. How to address poverty in Cambodia, how to address damage from the Khmer Rouge period, loss of knowledge. The importance of culture in strengthening people, the benefits of dance and how classical ballet represents the "Khmer soul." Creation of the dance school and dance troupe. Program through which bicycles were donated to enable students to commute to the school. How dance discipline encourages hygiene and other good behavior. (27 min.) |||| Teacher So Chan Nu speaks about how she began dancing, where she has taught, what dances she knows, her experience at the Foundation. (8 min.) |||| Students perform "Trott dance," "Coconut dance," "Fishing dance," and "Scarf dance" (23 min.) |||| Teacher Keo Saroeum talks about how he started dancing, how he selected students for the school and began teaching them. What gestures and pieces he teaches. How the school operates. (13 min.)
Library locations
Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Shelf locator: *MGZIDF 1263
Topics
Dance -- Cambodia
Ballet -- Cambodia
Dance -- Study and teaching
Dancers
Nginn Karet Ravynn -- Interviews
So Chan Nu -- Interviews
Keo Saroeum -- Interviews
Dance -- Study and teaching
Genres
Interviews
Filmed performances
Notes
Funding: Khmer Dance Project funded by Anne H. Bass Foundation.
Date: Copyright date: 2012
Biographical/historical: Funded by a grant from the Anne Hendricks Bass Foundation, the KDP began in 2008 when the Center for Khmer Studies partnered with the Jerome Robbins Dance Division to interview and film the three generations of artists - including dancers, musicians and singers, as well as embroiderers and dressers - who kept dance alive during and in the wake of the Khmer Rouge regime.
Content: Interviews are interspersed with footage of students rehearsing, eating, school grounds.
Venue: Recorded 17 July 2009 School of HRH Norodom Buppha Devi, Nginn Karet Foundation at Banteay Srei, Angkor, Cambodia.
Acquisition: Khmer and English, with English titles, credits, and subtitles.
Acquisition: Khmer Dance Project is a program created by Anne H. Bass in conjunction with the Center for Khmer Studies and the Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Physical Description
Videocassette
Extent: 1 videocassette (DVCam) (74 min.) : sound, color ; 1/4 in.
Type of Resource
Moving image
Languages
Central Khmer
English
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b19944664
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): a00f1940-0821-0131-3652-3c075448cc4b
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Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Interview with Nginn Karet Ravynn, So Chan Nu, Keo Saroeum, 2009-07-17" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 23, 2024. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/137e0c80-0381-0131-8720-3c075448cc4b

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Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. (2009). Interview with Nginn Karet Ravynn, So Chan Nu, Keo Saroeum, 2009-07-17 Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/137e0c80-0381-0131-8720-3c075448cc4b

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Interview with Nginn Karet Ravynn, So Chan Nu, Keo Saroeum, 2009-07-17