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.
Venue: Recorded 8 September 2009 Kien Svay in Kândal province, Cambodia.
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
Language: Khmer, with English titles, credits, and subtitles.

Physical Description

Extent: 1 videocassette (DVCam) (12 min.) : sound, color ; 1/4 in.

Abstract

Soth Somaly relates a story about how her mother taught her dance as a child, and her mother's use of mocking and belittling language. She speaks about the difference between harsher teaching methods used in the past and more encouraging methods now used; she describes her own teaching methods and her efforts to adapt to students' characters and not use hurtful words. She speaks about how teachers selected students in the past and how she selects students. She describes how costumes should be adapted to different body types.

Languages

Central Khmer
English

Identifiers

NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b19944671
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 9df13010-0821-0131-e2a8-3c075448cc4b

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Type Of Resource

Moving Image

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MLA format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Interview with Soth Somaly, 2009-09-08" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 2009. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/9df13010-0821-0131-e2a8-3c075448cc4b

APA format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. (2009). Interview with Soth Somaly, 2009-09-08 Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/9df13010-0821-0131-e2a8-3c075448cc4b

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Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Interview with Soth Somaly, 2009-09-08" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 17, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/9df13010-0821-0131-e2a8-3c075448cc4b

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