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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Cambodian master classical dancer Penh Yom walks between her teenage students, painstakingly adjusting a bent-back finger here and the tilt of a head there, as she passes on a centuries-old art form.

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Dance is universal and so are some topics the art form can bring to life. In a time when bullying is in the news in the U.S., a Cambodian dance troupe explores violence and the effects it can have on ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...