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.

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 ...

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 ...

Khmer classical dance has endured over a millennium in Cambodia, surviving even the brutality and mass killings of the Khmer Rouge regime in the 1970s. But today, dancing masters worry about waning ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Khmer classical dance is renowned for its graceful hand gestures and stunning costumes (TANG CHHIN Sothy) (TANG CHHIN ...