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This Week in TGIF: ‘The Nutcracker’

Sokvannara Sar makes isle debut in ‘The Nutcracker’

Imagine leaving everything you know for a country on the other side of the world — a country completely different from yours — to pursue a career in a form of dance you know almost nothing about. Cambodian-born ballet dancer Sokvannara Sar didn’t just imagine it. He did it.

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