Cambodian Stories

Cambodian Stories is Eiko & Koma's multi-disciplinary collaboration with young painters who study and work at the Reyum Institute of Arts and Culture in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. In addition to Eiko & Koma, who performe alongside their Cambodian artist colleagues, the creative collaborators includes Reyum Institute founder Daravuth Ly, who functions as Dramaturg, and Cambodian-born music ethnologist Sam-Ang Sam.
The performance is approximately 80 minutes without intermission and included two collective, large-scale action-paintings created collaboratively by the performers. The work explores the intersection of these lithe, youthful bodies, the Cambodian landscape and the voices past and present that inhabit it.
A traveling exhibition of the artists' paintings, both traditional and innovative, curated by the Reyum Institute faculty, accompanies the tour and serves as a catalyst for cross-cultural, cross-generational community dialogue about tradition, innovation and the role of the artist in fostering change. Artworks are available for sale, with all proceeds to benefit the Reyum Institute of Arts and Culture.
It is Eiko & Koma's intention to examine their aesthetic in a larger Asian context by teaching younger people in whose bodies Eiko & Koma feel their movement can genuinely reside.
2006 U.S. tour of Cambodian Stories is co-produced by Asia Soceity, The Reyum Institute of Arts and Culture and Inta. Inc.

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I worked at Reyum last year- these kids are truly AMAZING!