During the Khmer Rouge holocaust of the 1970s, more than 90 percent of Cambodia’s artists perished or fled the country. Dance and its associated narrative dramas, rituals and beliefs became a way for ...

The Cambodian mask dance is hard to learn. Students need to be strong and healthy. The mask dance is performed for any celebrations and for foreign people when they visit Fine Art school in Cambodia.

PHNOM PENH, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Cambodia's Princess Norodom Bopha Devi, a former minister of culture who helped revive traditional Apsara dance after the 1970s Khmer Rouge "killing fields" regime ...

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Cambodian-American Khmer classical dancer and choreographer Charya Burt has brought Rebirth of Apsara back to Cambodia to ...

LOWELL — After a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, during which a whole slate of scheduled events was canceled, the Angkor Dance Troupe will soon return to the stage for two performances ...

Charya Burt, an exquisite exponent of the classical dance of her native Cambodia, has participated in the main-stage programs of the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival on 12 occasions during the past ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Prumsodun Ok deeply loves classical Khmer dance. As a choreographer and dancer, Ok can exquisitely articulate the dance’s movements through his body, as well as their meanings ...

Prumsodun Ok remembers first being drawn to Khmer classical dance as a young boy. “Even when I was a 4-year-old child, there was something about the dance that grabbed me,” he told NBC Out. Born in ...

Four decades after the Cambodian genocide decimated traditional art forms in the Southeast Asian country, a nonprofit organization is working with an award-winning composer to engage new musicians in ...

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodia's Princess Norodom Bopha Devi, a former minister of culture who helped revive traditional Apsara dance after the 1970s Khmer Rouge "killing fields" regime nearly wiped ...