Work Samples for CWF – Beautiful Dark

Work Samples for CWF – Beautiful Dark

Creative Work Fund Sample Descriptions

Segment 1:
Charya Burt Choreographer, Vocalist and Lead Dancer
Title: Of Spirits Intertwined (World Premiere)
Length of Work: 12:40
Year Created: 2018
Description: Of Spirits Intertwined is a classical Cambodian dance piece exploring sacred connections between the dancer and her past dance masters, an unbroken string across generations.

How work relates to the proposed project: Like Beautiful Dark, classical gestures and movements are used to tell the story with choreographic patterns and live singing used to enhance the storytelling.

Segment 2:
Charya Burt Choreographer and Lead Dancer
Title: Silenced (World Premiere)
Length of Work: 45:00
Year Created: 2018
Description: Silenced is a full-length dance theatre piece honoring the life of one of Cambodia’s most iconic singers, Ros Sereysothea, who perished at the hands of the Khmer Rouge.

How work relates to the proposed project: Similar to Beautiful Dark, movements and gestures are deconstructed and expanded accompanied by new musical compositions to create energy reflective of the story being told.

Segment 3:
Charya Burt Choreographer and Lead Dancer
Title: Cinnabar Heart
Length of Work: 7:10
Year Created: 2017
Description: In Cinnabar Heart, composed by the renowned Cambodian-American composer, Chinary Ung, Charya Burt creates dance as a spiritual connection to the rhythms of Ung’s music responding to it with classically inspired choreography

How work relates to the proposed project: Classical movements and gestures are less constrained but still grounded in classical authenticity similar in style to what Charya will develop in Beautiful Dark.

Segment 4:
Charya Burt Choreographer and Lead Dancer
Title: Intersections Through Time
Length of Work: 10:25
Year Created: 2010 Restaged for Jacob’s Pillow shown here in 2017
Description: From a full-length program of Charya Burt’s Works, Intersections Through Time explores Charya’s personal journey as an immigrant artist.

How work relates to the proposed project: This piece demonstrates how Charya will use classical gestures to create a narrative set to non-traditional music.

Segment 5:
Charya Burt and Niharika Mohanty Choreographers and Lead Dancers
Title: Femina (Transitional Piece)
Length of Work: 1:15
Year Created: 2019
Description: A short encounter between two divine beings from Cambodia and India respectively.

How work relates to the proposed project: This demonstrates how Charya and Niharika use movements and gestures to communicate with each other, reflective of how such encounters may occur in Beautiful Dark.

Segment 6:
Niharika Mohanty Lead Dancer
Title: Braja Ku Chora
Length of Work: 14:26
Year Created: 1995
Description: Baby Lord Krishna is joyfully immersed in his world of pranks even as his mother, Yashoda, tries to put him to sleep.

How work relates to the proposed project: An expressional piece in the Indian language of Odia, this exhibits how Niharika will use classical movements in Beautiful Dark to tell a story.

Segment 7:
Vân-Ánh Võ Composer and Performer, Charya Burt Dancer
Title: Adrift Part 2 of To Touch Again (Work-In-Progress)
Length of Work: 4:05 (Adrift only)
Year Created: 2021
Description: To Touch Again explores the three emotional stages Vân-Ánh Võ and Charya Burt experienced during the pandemic; Trapped, Adrift, and Unbound.

How work relates to the proposed project: As in Beautiful Dark, Charya’s choreography will be set to Vân-Ánh’s compositions with both performing live together.

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