The exquisite costumes and fluid, controlled movements of the Angkor Dance Troupe were soothing and entertaining. But Wednesday's performance of the Cambodian dancers ages 6 to 21 was much more. The ...

Hundreds of hours of videotape that I took three decades ago have recently been digitized, and placed in a public archive so that Cambodian dancers and, indeed, anyone interested in the footage, can ...

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 ...

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.

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Prumsodun Ok deeply loves classical Khmer dance. As a choreographer and dancer, Ok can exquisitely articulate the dance’s movements through his body, as well as their meanings ...

A Cambodian Apsara dancer performs during a ceremony at a hotel in Phnom Penh, December 17, 2012. Wrists bent and fingers curled, the immaculately dressed dancers perform a series of gestures that, ...

Through slow, fluid movement, two dancers from Lowell’s Angkor Dance Troupe share a myth from their homeland, part of the folklore of how Cambodia came into being. It took Phousita Huy, the company’s ...

CAGE (Cambodian American Girls Empowering) is a non-profit local performing arts group on a mission to create a safe place for Philadelphia's Cambodian Americans. The organization, headquartered at ...

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 ...