Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Cronson, Caroline
2. Cronson, Mary Sharp
3. Makishi, Stanford
4. Phuon, Emmanuèle
5. Sargis, Eric J.
6. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Description

1. 1 videodisc (81 min.) sound, color; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

1. Emmanuéle Phuon and Eric J. Sargis discuss their backgrounds and how they began working together on this project, Phuon talks about the traditional monkey role in Cambodian dance, what she was after artistically by using classically trained Cambodian dancers and how this process related to the original Cambodian masters that observed monkeys and created dances, how Sargis transferred the natural monkey movement onto the dancers, the artistic license Phuon used when creating this work, incorporating tasks and improvisation into the choreographic process, why and how Phuon choose this particular score for Khmeropédies III and Sargis talks about the live vocals that imitate the Gibon's monkey spacing call, and concludes with Phuon discussing what she gave the dancers and what she took away from the experience.

Series statement

1. Works & process at the Guggenheim collection

Uniform title

1. Khmeropédies III (Choreographic work : Phuon)
2. Works and process at the Guggenheim.

Alternative title

1. Works & Process, Season of Cambodia

Subject

1. Video
2. Choreography
3. Monkeys > Behavior
4. Monkeys > Locomotion
5. Dancers > Cambodia
6. Dance > Cambodia
7. Filmed panel discussions
8. Filmed performances
9. Primates > Cambodia
10. Sargis, Eric J
11. Filmed dance
12. Phuon, Emmanuèle
13. Animal dances > Cambodia

Genre/Form

1. Filmed performances.
2. Panel discussions.
3. Filmed dance.
4. Video.
5. Dance.
6. Nonfiction films.

Contents

1. Introduction (3 min.) / by Carloine Cronson and Vanna Sann (Communications Director).
2. Panel discussion (23 min.) / panelists, Emmanuéle Phuon (choreographer) and Eric J. Sargis (scientific advisor) ; Stanford Makishi (moderator).
3. Khmeropédies III: Source/Primate (53 min.) / choreographed by Emmanuéle Phuon ; produced by Amrita Performing Arts.
4. Audience exiting (approximately 2 min.).

Call number

1. *MGZIDVD 5-7880

Note

1. Widescreen.
2. Title and credits taken from house program and DVD label.
3. Presented by Amrita Performing Arts and Season of Cambodia ; Season of Cambodia is an initiative of Cambodian Living Arts.
4. "Khmeropédies III is the continuation of a project that seeks to develop a specifically Cambodian contemporary language in dance, based on Cambodian cultural elements and Cambodian Classical Dance." -- Works & Process program notes from choreographer.

Credits (note)

1. Scientific advisor, Eric J. Sargis ; assistant to the choreographer and rehearsal director, Phon Sopheap ; lighting/production designer, Kate Ashton ; costume design and construction, Vong Vannak ; dramaturge, Lim How Ngean.

Source (note)

1. Mary Sharp Cronson.

Title

1. Season of Cambodia, Khmeropédies III: Source/Primate : Works & Process at the Guggenheim / performance series producer, Mary Sharp Cronson.

Production

1. 2013.

Country of producing entity

1. U.S.

Type of content

1. two-dimensional moving image

Type of medium

1. video

Type of carrier

1. videodisc

Digital file characteristics

1. video file DVD video

Series

1. Works & process at the Guggenheim collection
2. Works and process at the Guggenheim.

Original version

1. Original format: 1 DV cassette.

Credits

1. Scientific advisor, Eric J. Sargis ; assistant to the choreographer and rehearsal director, Phon Sopheap ; lighting/production designer, Kate Ashton ; costume design and construction, Vong Vannak ; dramaturge, Lim How Ngean.

Performer

1. Panel: Emmanuéle Phuon (choreographer) and Eric J. Sargis (scientific advisor) ; moderator, Stanford Makishi (Director of Programs at the Asian Cultural Council).
2. Dancers: Chey Rithear, Khieu Sovannarith, Khon Chansethyka, Khon Chansina, Nget Rady, Noun Savitou, Hing Seng Hong, Chy Ratana (understudy).
3. Singer, Kamala Kankaram.

Event

1. Videotaped in performance at the Peter B. Lewis Theater, as part of the Works & Process performance series at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York on 2013 April 30 (3 pm).

Local note

1. For program notes see *MGZB Works and process at the Guggenheim [programs].

Source

1. Gift; Mary Sharp Cronson. NN-PD

Local subject

1. Animal dances -- Cambodia.

Added author

1. Cronson, Caroline, speaker.
2. Cronson, Mary Sharp, producer.
3. Makishi, Stanford, moderator.
4. Phuon, Emmanuèle, choreographer.
5. Phuon, Emmanuèle, interviewee.
6. Sargis, Eric J., interviewee.
7. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
8. Cronson, Mary Sharp, donor.

Added title

1. Khmeropédies III (Choreographic work : Phuon)

Research call number

1. *MGZIDVD 5-7880