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| Forgotten Memories |
| Dates |
From November 02, 2007 7:30 PM
Through November 04, 2007 7:30 PM |
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| Location |
Imago Theater
17 SE 8th Avenue (Corner of SE 8th & Ankeny)
Portland, OR 97214 |
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503.838.3006 |
| Website |
http://www.mtdance.org |
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| Contact |
Minh Tran
6435 SE Scott Drive
Portland, OR 97215
503.998.0381
minh@mtdance.org
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| Description |
MINH TRAN & COMPANY
presents
FORGOTTEN MEMORIES
Back by popular demand, and once again in a proscenium setting, Minh Tran & Company presents Forgotten Memories at Portlands Imago Theater.
Called a blistering evocation of genocide's ghosts, by the Oregonian at its 2005 work-in-progress premier, Forgotten Memories centers on Tuol Sleng [hill of the poison tree], an abandoned suburban Phnom Penh high school that was code-named S-21and transformed into a Khmer Rouge interrogation center from 1975-1979. Headed by Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge combined extremist ideology, ethnic animosity, and a disregard for human life to produce murder on a massive scale. Approximately 1.7 million people lost their lives (21% of the countrys population) under the Pol Pot regime. Over 17,000 prisoners were interrogated, tortured, and executed inside the walls of S-21.
Tran toured S-21 in 2004 while on exchange in Cambodia with the Mekong Project, a program of Dance Theater Workshop in New York. After the first work-in-progress showing of Forgotten Memories in 2005, Tran returned to Cambodia to conduct additional research in order to complete the work.
Endeavoring to engage the audience viscerally through the combined mediums of film, original music, sets and movement, the completed Forgotten Memories will be performed in an intimate setting at the Imago Theater, they will acquire a first-hand taste of the horrors associated with war.
There will be a post performance discussion on Sunday November 4, 2007 with the artistic staff of Minh Tran & Company and featured guest facilitator Kilong Ung, President of Cambodian-American Community of Oregon and Khmer Rouge survivor. Other Cambodian-American survivors of the Khmer Rouge regime will attend the performance and also participate in the post performance discussion.
Trans company of dancers (Angela Haugejorden, Samuel Hobbs, Jennifer Hong, Riho Katagiri, Carla Mann, and Tran), along with long-time collaborators visual artist Christine Bourdette, filmmakers Chel White and Ryan Jeffrey, composer Dariush Dolat-shahi, and lighting designer Jeff Forbes, combine talents to create a compelling response to this atrocity. The development of Forgotten Memories is made possible in part with support from the Regional Arts & Culture Council, and the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation.
Minh Tran & Company is a nonprofit dance organization based in Portland, Oregon under artistic direction of Vietnamese-American choreographer Minh Tran, a recipient of the 2005 Oregon Art Commission Individual Fellowship Award. With a growing body of original and distinctive contemporary dance work and an increasing national presence, the company is noted for its singular fusion of traditional and contemporary techniques. Spanning architectural, cultural and social contexts, Minh Tran & Companys repertory reflects its choreographers fascination with the personal identity, popular culture, sense of place, and the compelling interplay of eastern and western traditions. The Company aims to promote artistic dialogue and educational exchange with audiences and communities through the use of artistic expression as a catalyst for breaking down cultural and racial barriers.
Contributing Artists
Minh Trans (Choreographer/ Artistic Director) choreography is characterized by its fusion of traditional Asian technique with a contemporary sensibility. Born in Vietnam, Mr. Tran immigrated to the United States in 1980 as a political refugee. In addition to receiving dance training in classical Vietnamese opera at the National School of Fine and Performing Arts in Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City), he holds a Master of Fine Arts in Dance from the University of Washington and Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration / Information Systems and Quantitative Analysis from Portland State University. Trans work has been performed nationally in the western United States, at Dance Theatre Workshop in New York, and internationally in Thailand, Indonesia and Vietnam and has received funding from the Regional Arts & Culture Council, White Bird / Tiffany & Company New Works Fund; Oregon Arts Commission, UCLAs Asian & Pacific Performance Exchange Initiative; Dance Theater Workshop Suitcase Funds Mekong Project (with support from the Rockefeller Foundation). In 2003 Minh Tran & Company was awarded a production and touring grant from the Doris Duke Fund for Dance of the National Dance Project, administered by the New England Foundation for the Arts with funding from the National Endowment of the Arts, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Altria Group, Inc.
Christine Bourdette (Visual Designer) is a sculptor based in Portland, Oregon who works in a wide variety of materials, exhibiting in the Northwest and across the United States. She is the recipient of the 1992 Bonnie Bronson Fellowship and the 2000 Regional Arts & Culture Councils Individual Artist Fellowship. In addition to her studio work, she has been awarded numerous public commissions for her art in Oregon, Washington and Florida. Her work is represented in Portland by the Elizabeth Leach Gallery.
Dariush Dolat-shahi (Composer) began his study of traditional Persian music at age ten at the Tehran Conservatory of
Music. He earned a bachelor degree from Tehran University, studied at the Amsterdam Conservatory of Music and at the
Institute of Sonology in Utrecht, continuing his studies in electronic music at Columbia University where he received his
doctorate degree. Dolat-shahi is a composer, lecturer and musician known for his improvisational work on the Persian tar
and setar. His performances have received critical acclaim nationally and internationally.
Ryan Jeffery (Filmmaker) has emerged as one of Portlands most ambitious and innovative filmmakers. His elaborately constructed films and installations emphasize color, rhythm and atmosphere, and feature close collaboration with musicians, including the multimedia band Adelaide, of which he is a founding member.
Chel White (Filmmaker) has been working as an independent filmmaker for 20 years. With a background in animation and experimental film, his short films consistently defy categorization. Chel's work explores such territories as love, obsession, alienation, death, transcendence, memories, and dreams. He often uses allegory and black humor to paint indelible pictures of the human experience in the age of science. From Sundance to Berlin to Hiroshima, Chel White's short films have been exhibited in film festivals all over the world, and recognized with many awards. Described as a cinematic poet, his work is intricate, beautiful and sublime. Dreams and dream images are ongoing resources in his work.
Minh Tran & Company is a nonprofit dance organization. Please visit www.mtdance.org for more information.
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Minh Tran & Company presents
"Forgotten Memories" |
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