In Cambodia, this is true as well. At New Year time in mid-April, for example, dancers of the court tradition enact sacred legends meant as ... Cambodia’s dancers communicate aspects of what it means ...

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 ...

A male Khmer classical dancer gets ready for a rehearsal in Phnom Penh. He is one of the eight members of Prumsodun Ok & Natyarasa, a local company regarded as one of the most revolutionary dance ...

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 ...

So too, a renascent Khmer dance has received modest sponsorship from international aid organisations and NGOs. The art has been embraced both within Cambodian and internationally, with the Royal ...

Cambodia's centuries-old tradition of masked dance was nearly wiped out by the Khmer Rouge's "Killing Fields" regime, but a handful of artists managed to keep it alive and are now working to pass ...

It is estimated that 90 percent of the Khmer artists were exterminated by the Pol Pot regime in the mid-1970s. Performers' costumes were in tatters, records and films of dance were destroyed.

The Khmer dancers were from Cambodia Star Academy (CSA), a Siem Reap-based music and dance studio and production house. Gleich and Yonaga approached CSA with the design and concept for the ...

Moving back to Cambodia in 2015, he founded Cambodia’s first Khmer-classical gay dance company Natyarasa, which now consists of 10 professional dancers. While the merger may seem contradictory at ...

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 ...

Sokea Kimleang, who is also known as Kon Ant, was born in the country’s capital, Phnom Penh, and grew up learning the traditional dance. She has spent her adult life promoting Khmer culture.