Pmsodun Ok never tend to found Cambodia’s first gay dance pany, let alone spark a natnal movement. “It was pletely accintal,” he says. It was 2015, and he was teachg dance Los…
Contents:
- WHY PMSODUN OK FOUND CAMBODIA'S FIRST GAY DANCE COMPANY HIS LIVG ROOM
- HOW A GROUP OF GAY MALE BALLET DANCERS IS RETHKG MASCULY
- HOW CAMBODIA’S 1ST ALL-MALE, GAY DANCE PANY IS PRERVG TRADN
- CAMBODIA’S FIRST GAY DANCE COMPANY COM TO FOC: WATCH
- GAY DANCE PANY REVENTS MEXI’S ‘FOLK BALLET’
- THE SI STORY OF CAMBODIA’S FIRST GAY DANCE PANY
- GAY DANCE PANY REVENTS MEXI’S ‘FOLK BALLET’
- THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
- SAN FRANCIS GAY DANCE CLUBS
WHY PMSODUN OK FOUND CAMBODIA'S FIRST GAY DANCE COMPANY HIS LIVG ROOM
Pmsodun Ok and NATYARASA, Cambodia’s first all-male, gay-intified dance pany, giv Khmer classil dance a morn twist. * gay dance company *
Perhaps no one has done so well recent memory as Pmsodun Ok, the founr of Pmsodun Ok & NATYARASA, Cambodia’s first gay dance pany.
I didn’t tend to form Cambodia’s first gay dance pany.
Inspired by a tantric ceremony rerd the 13th century, which the Khmer kg would sexually une wh a naga every night to ensure prospery, Beloved was meant to st a history of rual lovemakg to the dancg bodi of gay men. They started to look like a real pany—Cambodia’s first gay dance pany jt formed my livg room!
HOW A GROUP OF GAY MALE BALLET DANCERS IS RETHKG MASCULY
In 2015, artist Pmsodun Ok formed Cambodia’s first all-male and gay-intified Khmer dance pany -- his livg room. Part of his missn was to support the revival of an art form all but stroyed by the reign of the Khmer Rouge. Ok told his dancers they would need to be brave orr to give voice to a margalized muny. He shar his brief but spectacular take on honorg tradn. * gay dance company *
People are often surprised to hear that I feel safer as a gay man Cambodia than I do the Uned Stat. I have heard of parents takg their children to monks to purify the gay away.
I have also seen untls livg ritur of gay people, often effemate and c, televisn programs. I have seen gay marriag portrayed mic vios and via strangers’ posts on Facebook. Sendly, there is the AIDS epimic that took the liv of so many gay men, and the ongog global attempt to erase LGBTQ people om history and ntemporary society.
By trag young gay men the art of Khmer classil dance, by rtagg tradnal works and creatg those that reflect my own experience, I am offerg new bodi, new ias and new ways of beg valued to the tradn. My hope is to turn the short choreographi to dance films which set gay bodi and a agile herage to public spac. Comg out and forward as Cambodia’s first gay dance pany sends a msage that fi many social ntradictns.
HOW CAMBODIA’S 1ST ALL-MALE, GAY DANCE PANY IS PRERVG TRADN
A Phnom Penh rint wh a California upbrgg formed Cambodia's first all-male, all-gay dance pany two years ago. * gay dance company *
As we don’t play to stereotyp or adopt mastream gay culture (which is often jt an explosive Amerin nsumerism), for some people we are not “gay” enough. And then there are others who say labelg ourselv as “gay” is limg, while others have said that our work is bigger than “gay, ” that is universal.
There have been many who have said somethg like, “I don’t like gay people but I appreciate them for takg re of our culture. ” When I’m out at gay bars young Khmers will sometim thank me for jt speakg to them. The LGBTQ muny has been so proment the dance profsn that is now nsired a stereotype that all male dancers are gay.
CAMBODIA’S FIRST GAY DANCE COMPANY COM TO FOC: WATCH
Mexi Cy (AFP) – Wh a twirl of his skirt, Jab Soto taps his strappy high-heels time to the mic, the very image of his all-gay dance * gay dance company *
the creator of vogueg was gay Amerin Willi Nja;. Alex Scurr, Gay Men's Dance Company. No, this is about the ballero — my word for him — I met and what he reprented to a lonely gay kid Southern California 1984, a kid who had never before met another gay person.
Somethg about his movement told me he was gay, and I felt he was dancg not only for himself but for me.
(I showed the clip to a gay iend, who said, “That basilly sums up my relatnship wh my boyiend. Shortly after “Not Our Fate” premiered, Jt Peck, Cy Ballet’s rint choreographer, further challenged ballet’s genr norms when he adapted the woman’s role the pas ux at the heart of his 2017 “The Tim Are Racg, ” pairg Stanley wh Daniel Applebm, a 32-year-old gay soloist wh the you didn’t know much about classil ballet, you might thk ’s an obv home for queer artists and narrativ, but ’s more plited than that: Ballet, of urse, has always had gay dancers and choreographers and homoeroticism, but ’s an artistic disciple shaped by tradn.
GAY DANCE PANY REVENTS MEXI’S ‘FOLK BALLET’
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Masc Femme Butch KweenThere’s a hashtag for everythg on Instagram; when you type #gayballet, you will e across men tights and trag shorts, and eventually you might fd Jam Whi, most likely bare-chted wh a large scratch tattooed on his ribs. For the choreographer Lar Lubovch’s 2015 productn of “Othello, ” Whi didn’t want to waste the opportuny of workg wh a gay llaborator — his Iago was fed wh what he lls “queer rage. ReprentHarper Watters, 26, is many thgs: acclaimed Hoton Ballet soloist; son of two former llege profsors; host of a backstage chat show lled “The Pre Show” on his YouTube channel; a black gay man om New Hampshire now livg Texas; a lean, ventive artist who danc wh the eedom that om knowg who you are; a vourer of pop culture.
In many ways, this uld be a live-stream of two young gay men gettg ready for a night out at the bars, but over the urse of the 16. Drsed as a swan hunter, Watters talks to the mera a butch tone and says he and Stark are about to go out and do “boy thgs” like scg women and fightg, but then they lgh and return to their natural voic — distctly, unapologetilly gay — and clarify, “a different kd of boy thg.
THE SI STORY OF CAMBODIA’S FIRST GAY DANCE PANY
Wdy Cy Tim News - WASHINGTON The Washgton DC-based all-male gay dance pany, the DC Cowboys, has jt lnched their 2004 lendar. This fundraisg effort is an important aspect for the dance pany which enabl them to ntue their missn of providg * gay dance company *
This was the domant narrative the 1990s, when only a few male dancers were openly gay.
GAY DANCE PANY REVENTS MEXI’S ‘FOLK BALLET’
“My inty as a gay man has many layers, ” Lidberg adds.
Johnsey, who male pronouns, says he and others felt harassed bee “we don’t live up to some mascule ial of what a gay man is. Whi tells me about a letter he received om a woman who thks her young son is gay. “I wrote her back and said that was me — headstrong ltle effemate gay kid, ” Whi says.
THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
“I would put on my sister’s red drs and imate the movements om the televisn screen, ” Ok, as an adult, and after beg traed by one of the leadg choreographers Khmer classil dance, the terdisciplary artist is makg a name for himself as a retaker of the tradn, both ternatnally and Phnom Penh, where he currently June 2015, Ok formed Pmsodun Ok & NATYARASA, Cambodia’s first all-male, gay-intified dance pany. Notably, all the rol the pany’s performanc are performed by gay men, even rol tradnally performed by rtagg tradnal works of Khmer classil dance wh gay male dancers, Ok is hopg to both prerve and give a hns to a revered natnal art form, and the procs help challenge the notn that beg gay means gog agast tradn.
”Ok believ offerg dienc new possibili for a well known tradn n help dispel the notn that beg gay is somethg unnatural. “Beg gay is not ntrary to tradn.
SAN FRANCIS GAY DANCE CLUBS
In fact, look at the young gay men who are takg re of this tradn, ” Ok said. Performers of Pmsodun Ok and NATYARASANobuyi AraiThough Ok don’t feel the need to label himself as an activist, he do believe his inty as a gay man is naturally a source of tentn his work.
”“Maybe ’s the fact that I unrstand I am a gay man, and some parts of the world [gay men] are beg thrown off buildgs, ” Ok said. “To go on stage and show people as a gay man I know what love is, ’s a gture of prott a world of vlence — but also ’s a gture of celebratn and rilience.
”On a lol level, Ok hop to be a source of strength to the dancers of his dance pany, as they velop their inti both as gay men and artists Cambodia.