by Frances Phillips | Oct 1, 2021 | 2021, News
The Creative Work Fund is pleased to award 25 new grants to Greater Bay Area artists collaborating with nonprofit organizations to develop new works of dance, film, music, theater, visual arts, and more. Supported projects reveal artists’ profound commitment to their...
by Frances Phillips | Feb 28, 2014 | 2011, News, Traditional Arts
KQED recently produced an online profile of traditional dancer Charya Burt. Burt is collaborating with World Arts West to develop Blossoming Antiquities, exploring the story of Auguste Rodin’s fascination with the classical Cambodian dancers who performed in...
by Frances Phillips | May 23, 2013 | News
On Saturday, June 8, at the Legion of Honor Museum in San Francisco, Charya Burt Cambodian Dance’s Blossoming Antiquities will open the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival, produced by World Arts West. The work responds to sculptor Auguste Rodin’s sketches...
by Frances Phillips | Sep 29, 2011 | 2011, Traditional Arts
World Arts West collaborating with Cambodian dancer Charya Burt to create a new work exploring the 1906 encounter between Auguste Rodin and the Royal Cambodian Ballet. Burt is responding to the more than 150 drawings and sketches made by the French artist, when he...
by Frances Phillips | Jun 6, 2007 | 2007, Traditional Arts
Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center collaborating with Cambodian classical dancer and choreographer Charya Burt, Vishnu Tattva Das Odissi Vilas of Sacred Dance of India, and Melody Takata of Gen Taiko to create Of Spirits Intertwined, exploring the rituals that...
