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, ...
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 ...
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 1989, ten years after the fall of the genocidal regime of the Khmer Rouge (1975-1979, under the leadership of Pol Pot), Cambodians still found themselves engulfed in violence. Hundreds of thousands ...
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Both timeless and extremely timely, the company that calls itself Dance, the Spirit of Cambodia inaugurated the Cal Performances dance season last weekend at Berkeley's Zellerbach Auditorium with a ...
In one of the most compelling films to hold its world premiere at the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival, archive footage shows an apparently amiable man dressed in black sitting for an ...
ST. CHARLES — For Paul Cravath, Cambodia conjures up images of beauty and death. Cravath, a native of Chatfield, arrived in Cambodia during the 1975 war that is the subject of the film, "The Killing ...
SAN JOSE — As a child in Cambodia, Savary Dean lived to dance. When her dance team performed a classic folktale known as “Sophea Tonsay” or the “The Judge Rabbit,” Dean was cast as the lead role. She ...
In 2015, artist Prumsodun Ok formed Cambodia’s first all-male and gay-identified Khmer dance company -- in his living room. Part of his mission was to support the revival of an art form all but ...
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 ...