Body in Space

A performance by Rady Nget

Saturday 04 November 2023, 6:30 pm

Sa Sa Art Projects

Through this concept, I have sealed myself as a body that suffers from the positive and negative effects of natural changes that also affect humans and animals. Climate change can be caused by humans, and people are more likely to suffer if these developments are ignored.

About Rady Nget:

Rady Nget began his dance training in 1999, specializing in the monkey role of Lakhaon Kaol, the Cambodian classical male masked dance form. He has been dancing with Cambodia’s premiere contemporary dance company, the Amrita Performing Arts since 2010. As a classical and contemporary dancer, Nget has toured to Europe, Asia, and the United States. In addition to performing in a broad range of contemporary productions, Nget has created a number of his own works including a performance of his My Memory at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in New York City in 2017. He was a featured dancer in CRACK – a new work of Cambodian contemporary dance by German choreographer Arco Renz, which was awarded the 2012 ZKB Patronage Prize in Switzerland in 2012.

Rady Nget obtained a Bachelor's Degree of Arts from the Royal University of Fine Arts in 2013 where he is now a teacher at the Faculty of Choreographic Arts and Deputy Chief of Research. Nget is researching new ways of arts training for Cambodia’s next generation of performing artists, including establishing sustainable mentoring programs. In 2019 Nget became part of the Amrita Collective, Cambodia’s premiere contemporary dance collective. Nget has received a number of high-profile grants including a 2020 Cambodia Living Arts commission to create Roots, a new dance work that combines Cambodian classical dance, Mask Dance, Yike opera, folk dance, Bassac opera, and circus. In 2021 Nget created his own dance collective, Root Dance, to help inspire a new generation of Khmer Mask Dance practitioners. That year he also received a grant from Cambodian Living Arts to create a new work he calls SAKEE. A member of the Southeast Asia Choreographers Network, Nget creates dance works that bridge the classical with the contemporary.

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