Mar 18, 2019
Phare, The Cambodian Circus was created initially as a school for art therapy by refugees. It now has a permanent tent in Siem Reap where graduates somewhere to hone their skills and earn money that will take them out of poverty and give them self-respect and freedom.
Visit Phare, The Cambodian Circus Online:
https://pharecircus.org/
Instagram: @pharecambodiancircus
For more on the Khmer Rouge and the historical context for this interview:
Cambodia Tribunal Monitor:
http://www.cambodiatribunal.org/history/cambodian-history/
Public Broad Casting’s Independent Lens:
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/refugee/war_cambodia.html
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This podcast is dedicated to CIRCUS. Aerialist, Shannon McKenna interviews guests from acrobats in Cirque du Soleil to circus therapists and everyone in between. Learn the backstage lives of those who flip, twist, sparkle, and shine under the big top.
Shannon McKenna is an internationally recognized circus performer and coach. For the past decade, she has been a freelance artist: giving workshops and classes across 7 countries and working on and back stage for both traditional and contemporary circus shows in the US, Portugal, Germany, and Australia. She holds a BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts with a concentration on post-modern physical theater (how’s that for a mouthful?). She founded The Artist Athlete in 2018 as a means to produce educational materials for aerial artists and a podcast in which she interviews experts in the circus industry about their careers. If you’re reading this, you’re probably listening to it. Thank you!
She currently lives in Atlanta, GA USA, but gravitates towards whichever circus community is the warmest.
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