Dancing Across Borders

Filmmaker and philanthropist Anne Bass uses film clips from dance performances and interviews with parents Sithhar Sar and Kimheong Chunn, Khmer dancer teachers Madame Boran Kim and Keo Sa Roeum, former Cambodian ambassador Roland Eng, Karet Foundation founder Ruvynn Karet-Coxen, Pacific Northwest Ballet artistic director Peter Boal, ballet instructor Olga Kostritzky, former New York City Ballet principal dancer Jack Soto and choreographer and principal dancer Benjamin Millepied, and Cambodia's Amrita Performing Arts founder Fred Frumberg to chronicle the fascinating and touching journey of extraordinarily gifted 16-year-old Cambodian dancer Sokvannara "Sy" Sar as he travels from Angkor Wat in Siem Reap to the United States in 2000 and begins to learn the art of ballet at the Pacific Northwest Ballet in Seattle.
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