dance

phnom penh
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I went to see the performance of the dancers and musicians from the Bassac commune squatter village. 90 kids and 15 master musicians (including a Ray Charles look-a-like) performed at the Sovanna Phum theatre on a drizzly wednesday night. I sat with my Swede friend Anders as he recorded the music and I snapped off a few photos. The kids are all from a squalid shantytown near the Bassac river and the Russian embassy. The government is evicting them and the village is slated for razing. An NGO has been teaching these kids traditional Khmer performing arts for the last couple of years and this was the first time many of their parents saw them perform.