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...sing and swoon on screen, you—dressed in maybe a pink tutu or a leather corset—throw rice during the wedding scene, blow noisemakers during the party scene, and call out witty, often tasteless one-liners: “Susan’s on the ra-ag; now the rag’s on her head!” Somewhere between screen and seats, a cast of actors acts out what’s happening on stage, but perhaps with a twist, like (in Harvard Square) “Star Wars...
...performance. Astatke began to integrate Ethiopian rhythms and scales into his jazz compositions while studying at the Berklee School of Music in the 1950s, exploring a genre that would emerge a decade later as jazz fusion. Somerville’s Either/Orchestra, a ten-piece fusion group influenced by Sun Ra that has been working with Astatke since 2004, deftly navigated his delicate balance of Ethiopian and American tonality.The performance opened with a music video based on Astatke’s study of the maqwammiya, a prayer staff used in ceremonies of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. The music featured a traditional...
...That the revival of their fortunes should have begun halfway around the world, at Séra's Parisian drawing table, is not entirely surprising. "The Khmer diaspora has had interesting effects on Khmer culture," says John Weeks, the assistant managing editor at Our Books. Filmmakers and novelists who fled Cambodia have helped map out a record of its struggles, and émigré communities have been instrumental in keeping traditional dance and music alive after many of its best practitioners were persecuted. Séra obeyed the same impulses as many artistically minded exiles, but although he had been...
...ra started his first graphic novel about Cambodia, Impasse et Rouge - chronicling the years just before the Khmer Rouge - in 1987, five years before Art Spiegelman's Maus would win a Pulitzer for its famous depiction of the Holocaust and demonstrate that gravitas and the graphic arts were not mutually exclusive. Impasse et Rouge wasn't published for almost another 12 years. Although the following two titles about Cambodia, L'Eau et la Terre (2005) and Lendemains de cendres (2007), were picked up in fairly quick succession by the major French comic publisher Delcourt, Séra has still...
...ra, returning to Cambodia every year thus offers a chance to draw new artistic energy from - and pass on experience to - the young artists he is mentoring. Like him, the contributors to (Re)géné Rations show a willingness to tackle tough subjects - chief among them the trials of daily life in Cambodia. Developed during a series of workshops between 2005 and 2007, the students' panels, which range from simple black-and-white line drawings to detailed, full-color illustration, show street kids panhandling for change and people eking out other precarious livings, like a woman gathering lotus...