Weyreap's Battle

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Event Weyreap's Battle
Venue Playhouse, Melbourne, VIC
Umbrella Event Melbourne International Festival of Arts 2005
First Date 6 October 2005
Opening Date 6 October 2005
Last Date 8 October 2005
Dates Estimated No
Status Professional
World Premiere No
Description This is a dance theatre work retelling an action-packed episode of the well-known Asian epic, the Ramayana or Reamker, as it is known in Cambodia.
Through traditional music, simple staging and highly energetic dancing, the all-male cast performs a time-honoured narrative of good triumphing over evil.
"Lakhaon Kaol" (Cambodian classical male masked dancing) consists of a complex vocabulary of 4000 gestures. An ensemble featuring circle gongs, xylophones, percussion and woodwind instruments accompanies the expressive movement, while two narrators "direct" the choreography from the orchestra
Description Source Other
Primary Genre Dance
Organisations
Resources
Text Nationality Cambodia
Production Nationality Cambodia
Event Status Completed
Data Source
Source Description
Brochure PROMPT Collection. National Library of Australia
Data Set AusStage
Event Identifier 67814