{"id":1335,"date":"2014-06-13T08:00:41","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T01:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pharecircus.org\/blog\/?p=1335"},"modified":"2021-12-26T13:53:02","modified_gmt":"2021-12-26T06:53:02","slug":"meet-the-stars-sambath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pharecircus.org\/meet-the-stars-sambath\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Stars: Sambath"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"sambath(1)\"<\/a>We have a special treat for you today \u2013 he is the central character in one of most famous Phare performances where he plays a talented, but outcast villager\u2026 Meet Monny Rattanaksambath, aka Sambath, 21, from Battambang, He is an acrobat and juggler in Phare\u2019s hit production Eclipse<\/em>. Sambath grew up playing soccer and volleyball, and he loved to play racing games at a local shop that had a television and Sony PlayStation\u2026 this last hobby ended up being bad for him, he says \u2013 pulling him away from his schooling. Back then he dreamed of having a fancy car and being a rich man someday. Perhaps leftover from his video game days, he loves to drive motorcycles \u2013 the bigger the better!<\/p>\n

When he was 10 years old he learned about Phare during a training demonstration at the circus school. He knew right then he wanted to be a famous artist\u2026 when he saw the performers doing their moves, he had a feeling inside that he could do those things too.<\/p>\n

It turned out to be harder than he thought, but he took it step by step and grew his skills.\u00a0 Before long he was amazed by what he could do! Though he had his doubts during his practices \u2013 some of the moves were so difficult and he wasn\u2019t always successful when he tried them. But something happened when he would perform in front of an audience\u2026if he could do a move at all during a practice, then he could always do it for an audience \u2013 and better than he had ever done it alone!\"sambath(2)\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"sambath(3)\"<\/a>What does he love most about his job? He likes to be \u201cin character\u201d more than anything as a performer. He gets to turn off his everyday self and assume the intensity of his character. He focuses his mind on the essence of the character, takes on those emotions in an entirely real way, and doesn\u2019t return to his true self until the show is over. This is an especially raw experience to observe in his current piece, Eclipse<\/em>, where he is seen as an outcast who must earn his place amongst his peers.<\/p>\n

\"sambath(4)\"<\/a>\"sambath(5)\"<\/a>\"sambath(6)\"<\/a><\/p>\n

His favorite trick? The bascule (French for \u201cseesaw\u201d) because it\u2019s the closest thing a person can feel to flying! Sambath excels past his peers in this part of the show\u2026 He sails higher then the other acrobats and achieves more flipping rotations than anyone else as well. If you\u2019re able to see Eclipse<\/em>, you\u2019ll understand entirely, as the crowd always cheers during the show\u2019s finale.\"sambath(7)\"<\/a><\/p>\n

In the future? Though he is hoping to spend some time in Europe to perform and earn money, Sambath eventually is looking forward to getting back to his roots. Farming. His mother still works hard on the family farm and he wishes he could be there to help, but he is always traveling to perform in Siem Reap and beyond.\u00a0 He enjoys it, but he said farming will always feel like home to him.<\/p>\n

Check our schedule here<\/a> and see when Eclipse<\/em> is showing\u2026 you\u2019ll see the closest thing possible to a human being that can fly, and afterwards he\u2019s always happy to clown around and pose for a picture!…\"sambath(8)\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We have a special treat for you today \u2013 he is the central character in one of most famous Phare performances where he plays a talented, but outcast villager\u2026 Meet Monny Rattanaksambath, aka Sambath, 21, from Battambang, He is an acrobat and juggler in Phare\u2019s hit production Eclipse. Sambath grew up playing soccer and volleyball, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1935,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-success"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pharecircus.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pharecircus.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pharecircus.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pharecircus.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pharecircus.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pharecircus.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pharecircus.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pharecircus.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pharecircus.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pharecircus.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}