Prumsodun Ok: The magic of Khmer classical dance
Промсодон Аук: Магия классического кхмерского танца
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.
земледелию.
between heaven and earth.
между землёй и небесами.
of the people up to the gods,
молитвы людей до богов,
was delivered back through them
через них обратно
create a serpentine impression,
the introduction of major religions,
до появления мировых религий,
practiced animism.
практиковали анимизм.
in this belief system
в этой системе верований,
curvilinear movement,
in your dancing body then
к духу змеи с помощью танца,
of rivers cutting across the earth:
разделяющую землю,
is a transformation of nature,
это изменение природы:
and of our own internal universe.
и нашей внутренней вселенной.
hand gestures that we use.
with which dancers express themselves.
танцовщики выражают себя.
through the dance as well.
transformed and put together
трансформируются и соединяются,
возможности в искусстве.
таких волшебников
in the royal palace,
королевского дворца,
Ангкорского периода,
originally took life.
эта форма искусства.
almost completely destroyed.
почти полностью было разрушено.
чем на одном языке,
that you could afford health care.
себе медицинские услуги.
indicated your elite education.
значит, у вас элитное образование.
you didn't have to work beneath the sun.
вы не работали под палящим солнцем.
на период с 1975 по 1979 годы,
из-за предполагаемых привилегий.
of rigid inequality.
and comforts of the world
и удобствами этого мира,
suffered from backbreaking labor
от изнурительного труда
to see that this is true.
не нужен учебник истории.
as knhom preah robam,
«knhom preah robam»,
to end slavery in Cambodia,
с рабством в Камбодже,
everyone into slaves to do it.
чтобы достичь желаемого.
that they sought to end.
которой пытались положить конец.
against their own parents.
and being killed,
of Cambodia's population was lost
целую треть населения Камбоджи
of Khmer dance artists.
исполнители кхмерского танца.
for the tradition and future were lost.
и будущем были утеряны.
этой формы искусства
has been revived to new heights.
и достиг новых высот.
in a vulnerable environment.
в обстановке уязвимости.
still haunt Khmer people today.
преследуют кхмерский народ.
в нашей генетической памяти,
and language barriers.
и языковым барьером.
жизнеспособная вещь.
to grow anywhere and everywhere
произрастать где угодно,
through time and place.
во времени и пространстве.
our culture and country,
воскрешают нашу культуру и страну,
in which to move forward into the future.
по которым можно идти в будущее.
don't know the dancer's names,
имён танцовщиков,
honestly and openly from "khnhom."
отталкиваться от слова «khnhom».
у своего учителя танца.
by many as female,
многими как женский.
gay dance company.
танцевальный гей-коллектив.
of the beauty, dreams and power
красоты, мечтаний и силы тех,
of past, present and future,
настоящего и будущего,
that ancient and ageless role
древнюю и не устаревающую роль
for anyone's permission to bloom.
чтобы зацвести.
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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