Khmer classical dance has endured over a millennium in Cambodia, surviving even the brutality and mass killings of the Khmer ...

Cambodian master classical dancer Penh Yom walks between her teenage students, painstakingly adjusting a bent-back finger ...

SIEM REAP, Cambodia — The sun sets, the stage lights turn on, and the conversations pause. We line up along the railings of the traditional Khmer wooden house, looking down from the stilted patio, and ...

UNESCO declared it an intangible cultural heritage in 2003, noting that it takes dancers "years of intensive training" to ...

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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 ...

In this June 20, 2018, photo, Princess Norodom Buppha Devi, eldest daughter of the country's late King Norodom Sihanouk, attends the cremation ceremony of her sister in-law, Ouk Phalla, in Phnom Penh, ...

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 ...

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