The News Review:
- Cambodian-Americans are changing their parents’ homeland
- Dance review: ‘C(H)ord’ vague hard to forget
- Coffee Break: Get more from your tax refund
Cambodian-Americans are changing their parents’ homeland
Seattle Post Intelligencer – Apr 26, 2008
©2007 Stuart Isett. All rights reservedCambodian-Americans are changing their parents’ homelandThey’re giving at-risk youth a break with dance lessonsBy. He’s also the one moving to a country he never visited before last year the country his parents fled during the Khmer Rouge’s reign of terror. Peanut whose real name is Phanna Nam is following a dream to dance in Cambodia and teach poor kids the moves that have been second nature to him since he was a child growing up in Mount Baker. The Franklin High School grad 23 was born in Tacoma and visited Cambodia for the first time in 2007 for a month. Behind the moves of Massive Monkees one of Seattle’s top B-boy groups (B-Boy is hip-hop slang for break dancer) is the story of how Cambodian-Americans like Nam are changing their parents’ homeland… I feel more real living in the ‘hood” said Nam who’s going to Alaska this summer to make money fishing then making the big move abroad. “I don’t know how to do anything else but break dance. If I’m gonna shed tears blood and sweat it might as well be for Cambodia. I can’t change Cambodia but these kids can.
Dance review: ‘C(H)ord’ vague hard to forget
San Francisco Chronicle – Apr 26, 2008
Butoh is such an intimate form that it can be difficult to imagine that you can preserve its eerie effectiveness in a bigger theater but the smallest interactions and minute gestures in “c(H)ord” are sharply focused with a burnished glow. In a bid perhaps to reclaim even more immediacy the performers venture at various intervals into the theater appearing in the aisles or addressing us from the balcony. The break with the formality of what happens on the stage is only half effective though. Rudstr?oes his best with long explanatory monologues but his frenetic exhortations from the side boxes of the house turn into a joke-laced stand-up routine – an unnecessary speed bump in the flow of the piece. In the meantime you might almost miss Ishide creeping catlike along the narrow rail between rows K and L. At more than 90 minutes with no intermission “c(H)ord” can feel overly long. Still those fantastical scenes – the huddled clump of dancers that becomes a sea anemone Ishide wandering lost among thunderheads a parade of fools silhouetted against a night sky – will long linger in your mind.
Coffee Break: Get more from your tax refund
commercialappeal.com (subscription) – Apr 26, 2008
as well as the dozens of special events that we host each season” said Jason Rittenberry vice president and general manager of Memphis Motorsports Park. Take mom dancingIf your mother is the dancing type the Cotton Museum is offering her the perfect arena to shine on Mother’s Day. Brian ‘Breeze’ Cayolle Bob Sunda Mike Assad and Memphis’s own Michael Jefry Stevens will play New Orleans dance music. ; music begins at 6:30 p.