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 ...

Cambodian Dance: Celebration of the Gods outlines the history and revival of the Kingdom’s traditional dance WITH the global notoriety of the relatively recent Khmer Rouge atrocities, dance does not ...

Images of dance and drama are found both on bas reliefs and in free standing sculpture from ancient Cambodian temples. Unfortunately, we know very little about the meanings and gestures of dance in ...

Khmer classical dance, performed to traditional music, is renowned for its graceful hand gestures and stunning costumes, and has a 1,000-year history. But after barely surviving Cambodia's genocidal ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Charya Burt trained in and taught classical Cambodian dance in Phnom Penh, where her family suffered oppression by the Khmer Rouge. Now in the Bay Area, she's passing on her art -- and pushing it in ...

The awesome grace and meticulous movements of Cambodian dancers have entranced audiences for centuries, and planes full of tourists descending on Siem Reap, the jumping-off point for Angkor Wat, now ...