Prumsodun Ok: The magic of Khmer classical dance
Prumsodun Ok: Magia klasycznego tańca khmerskiego
TED Fellow Prumsodun Ok heals, empowers and advocates using the ancient art of Khmer classical dance. Full bio
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tańca khmerskiego,
for an agricultural society.
rolniczemu społeczeństwu.
mężczyźni, jak i kobiety.
between heaven and earth.
między niebem a ziemią.
of the people up to the gods,
modły ludzi do bogów.
was delivered back through them
create a serpentine impression,
the introduction of major religions,
bo przed wprowadzeniem głównych religii
practiced animism.
świata, praktykowali animizm.
in this belief system
dla tego systemu wierzeń,
curvilinear movement,
in your dancing body then
of rivers cutting across the earth:
obraz przecinających ziemię rzek,
is a transformation of nature,
to transformacja natury,
and of our own internal universe.
i wewnętrznego, który tkwi w nas.
hand gestures that we use.
with which dancers express themselves.
tancerze wyrażają samych siebie.
through the dance as well.
transformed and put together
i składa w jedną całość,
nieograniczone możliwości.
Sophiline Cheam Shapiro,
in the royal palace,
którzy brylowali na królewskim dworze,
originally took life.
tchnęli w tę formę sztuki życie.
almost completely destroyed.
już raz zniszczono niemal doszczętnie.
that you could afford health care.
indicated your elite education.
że jesteście dobrze wykształceni.
you didn't have to work beneath the sun.
że nie musicie pracować na słońcu.
w latach 1975-1979,
rzekomo uprzywilejowani.
of rigid inequality.
and comforts of the world
suffered from backbreaking labor
pracowała ponad siły
to see that this is true.
żeby wiedzieć, że to prawda.
oznaczać niewolnika.
as knhom preah robam,
jako "knhom preah robam",
to end slavery in Cambodia,
znieść niewolnictwo w Kambodży,
everyone into slaves to do it.
uczynili niewolnikami.
that they sought to end.
choć chcieli znieść niewolnictwo.
against their own parents.
and being killed,
of Cambodia's population was lost
ludności Kambodży
of Khmer dance artists.
90% khmerskich tancerzy.
for the tradition and future were lost.
a byli uosobieniem tradycji i przyszłości.
tej formy sztuki
które nas określały,
has been revived to new heights.
znowu przeżywa rozkwit.
in a vulnerable environment.
still haunt Khmer people today.
nadal prześladują Khmerów.
cierpimy na zespół stresu pourazowego.
and language barriers.
i bariery językowe.
to grow anywhere and everywhere
through time and place.
our culture and country,
życie w naszą kulturę i kraj.
in which to move forward into the future.
prowadzi ku przyszłości.
don't know the dancer's names,
nie znamy imion tancerzy,
honestly and openly from "khnhom."
i otwarcie odeszli od "khnhom".
moich nauczycielek,
by many as female,
gay dance company.
szkołę tańca dla homoseksualistów.
of the beauty, dreams and power
of past, present and future,
teraźniejszości i przyszłości,
that ancient and ageless role
w pradawną i ponadczasową rolę
tylko jeden rodzaj kwiatów
for anyone's permission to bloom.
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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