Director: Anne H. Bass Producer: Anne H. Bass
Country: USA
Runtime: 1 hr : 28 min
World Premiere
Synopsis
On a trip to Angkor Wat in Siem Reap, Cambodia in January 2000, filmmaker Anne Bass came across a sixteen year old boy who moved her immensely with his amazing and seemingly natural charms and grace as a dancer. Having been a longtime devotee to the world of dance herself back in the United States, Anne felt compelled to give this young boy the opportunity to leave his home and follow a dream that she felt he hadn’t even yet seen for himself. From the serene countryside of Southeast Asia to the halls of New York’s School of American Ballet and the stage of the Pacific Northwest Ballet in Seattle, Dancing Across Borders peeks behind the scenes into the world of dance and chronicles the intimate and triumphant story of a boy who was discovered, and who only much later discovered all that he had in himself.
Director
Anne H. Bass
Anne Bass graduated of Vassar College and was a former contributing editor of Vogue and House and Garden. She has a long history of involvement in the arts and Cambodia. She has served on the Board of Directors and Executive Committees of the Fort Worth Ballet, New York City Ballet and the School of American Ballet. In 2008, along with NYPL’s Dance Division, she founded the Khmer Dance Project, in order to film and document Cambodia’s Khmer classical dance. Dancing Across Borders is her first film.
