Prumsodun Ok: The magic of Khmer classical dance
پرومسُدون اُک: جادوی رقص کلاسیک خمر
TED Fellow Prumsodun Ok heals, empowers and advocates using the ancient art of Khmer classical dance. Full bio
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for an agricultural society.
between heaven and earth.
میان آسمان و زمین خدمت میکردند.
of the people up to the gods,
دعاهای مردم برای خدایان بود،
was delivered back through them
create a serpentine impression,
تصویر مار را خلق میکند،
the introduction of major religions,
چرا که پیش از ادیان بزرگ،
practiced animism.
in this belief system
curvilinear movement,
in your dancing body then
of rivers cutting across the earth:
در پهنای زمین را فرابخوانید:
is a transformation of nature,
and of our own internal universe.
و چه در هستی درونیمان.
hand gestures that we use.
with which dancers express themselves.
که رقاصان برای بیان خود به کار میبرند.
through the dance as well.
transformed and put together
تغییرشکل آنها، و ترکیب شدنشان
به معنی «جادو» است.
in the royal palace,
دربار سلطنتی بودند،
originally took life.
almost completely destroyed.
تقریباً یکسره ویران شد.
that you could afford health care.
پرداخت مراقبت بهداشتی برمیآیید.
indicated your elite education.
نشان میدهد که تحصیلات عالی دارید.
you didn't have to work beneath the sun.
مجبور نبودید زیر آفتاب کار کنید.
هدف قرار میگرفتیم.
of rigid inequality.
and comforts of the world
suffered from backbreaking labor
to see that this is true.
as knhom preah robam,
to end slavery in Cambodia,
پایان بردگی در کامبوج بودند،
everyone into slaves to do it.
همه را به بردگی گرفتند.
that they sought to end.
به دنبال پایانش بودند.
کار اجباری فرستادند.
against their own parents.
شستشوی مغزی دادند.
and being killed,
of Cambodia's population was lost
of Khmer dance artists.
رقص خمری را شامل میشد.
for the tradition and future were lost.
۹ مورد از بین رفت.
has been revived to new heights.
به اوج جدیدی رسیده است.
in a vulnerable environment.
در موقعیت آسیبپذیریست.
still haunt Khmer people today.
بر مردم خمر سایه افکنده است.
به ژنتیک ما راه یافته
and language barriers.
و موانع زبانی مواجهند.
to grow anywhere and everywhere
through time and place.
به زمان و مکان پیوند میدهد.
our culture and country,
برای احیای فرهنگ و کشور ما،
in which to move forward into the future.
برای حرکت به سوی آینده وجود دارد.
don't know the dancer's names,
نام رقاصان چیست،
honestly and openly from "khnhom."
از «کنیوم» عبور میکنیم.
by many as female,
gay dance company.
همجنسگرایان کامبوج را تاسیس کردم.
of the beauty, dreams and power
کسانی در من تناسخ یافته
of past, present and future,
that ancient and ageless role
for anyone's permission to bloom.
از کسی اجازه نمیگیرد.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Prumsodun Ok - Interdisciplinary artistTED Fellow Prumsodun Ok heals, empowers and advocates using the ancient art of Khmer classical dance.
Why you should listen
Prumsodun Ok groundbreaking performances have been described as "radical beauty" by the Bangkok Post and have been staged throughout Cambodia, Thailand, Mexico, Greece and the United States. Ok's 2013 book Moni Mekhala and Ream Eyso was reviewed in the Asian Theatre Journal as “a sampeah kru ritual of a sort: an offering to teachers living and deceased and to Moni Mekhala [the Goddess of the Ocean] herself.”
Ok has brought a diverse group of artists, activists and scholars together for Children of Refugees, a program of talks and performances raising awareness for the Syrian refugee crisis. Among many honors, Ok is a TED Senior Fellow and was named by Tea Uglow, creative director of Google Creative Lab in Sydney, an LGBT+ Creative Leader of Tomorrow for The Dots's and WeTransfer's Championing Diversity Initiative. Ok is based in Phnom Penh where he founded Prumsodun Ok & NATYARASA, Cambodia’s first gay dance company.
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