Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In one of the most compelling films to hold its world premiere at the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival, archive ...

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

Princess Norodom Buppha Devi, a noted practitioner and promoter of classical Cambodian dance and who was also the eldest daughter of Cambodia’s late King Norodom Sihanouk, died Nov. 18 at a hospital ...

harya Burt was 5 years old when the Khmer Rouge, led by the notorious dictator Pol Pot, seized power in her native Cambodia in 1975. During its four-year reign, the brutal regime claimed the lives of ...

It is startling to consider the violence and cruelty of Pol Pot’s Killing Fields in relation to the tranquility and harmony of classical Cambodian dance. In moving from the temple to the court, the ...

Mea Lath is a professional Cambodian classical dancer and instructor currently residing in Long Beach, California. Mea began learning dance at the age of 12 under the tutelage of renowned Cambodian ...

Prumsodun (Prum) Ok is founder and artistic director of Cambodia’s first and only all-male gay classical dance company, Prumsodun Ok & NATYARASA. A Deepest Blue, in which Prum will be accompanied by ...

This edited article by Lara Shaker was originally published on VOD News, an independent news site in Cambodia, and is republished on Global Voices as part of a content-sharing agreement. In founding ...

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.