Thursday, October 1, 2009

Choreographer Accepts $25,000 Art Award

Sophiline Cheam Shapiro (R) teaching a dancer
By Im Sothearith, VOA Khmer
Original report from Washington
30 September 2009

Khmer choreographer Sophiline Cheam Shapiro was given an award by the National Endowment for the Arts, after co-founding the Khmer Arts Academy in California.
The National Heritage Fellowship is the highest form of federal recognition for folk and traditional arts. Shapiro and 10 others were awarded this year.
“The reason why I think her award today is so important is that it gives her the ability to continue the art,” Laura Richardson, a Democratic congresswoman from California who joined the Sept. 22 ceremony, told VOA Khmer.
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