Both timeless and extremely timely, the company that calls itself Dance, the Spirit of Cambodia inaugurated the Cal Performances dance season last weekend at Berkeley's Zellerbach Auditorium with a ...

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 ...

o What: Cambodian New Year Celebration, feting the year of the tiger with traditional dance and music. o When: 6:30-11:30 p.m. April 10. 6:30-7:30 p.m. is a social hour, followed by a performance by ...

From a sewing circle for Jewish women who just arrived in America, to a marching band for African-American kids in the Central Area, to a dance class for Cambodian children that prepares them to be ...

2001-09-02 04:00:00 PDT New York-- In the theater, photos of great Cambodian temples of the ancient city of Ankor flash on the backdrop: Roots of giant fig trees envelop crumbling walls in an embrace ...

In several Southeast Asian countries and Indonesia, no artistic medium is more intensely practiced or central to national identity than the dance drama derived from the ancient Ramayana. Ornately ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. In a mere 88 minutes, “Dancing Across Borders” tells several overlapping ...

The United Khmer Students at UCLA, family and friends came together Sunday night to showcase Cambodian culture with student performances, weaving together traditional folk tales and dances at the 18th ...

Folk artists perform a lion dance in front of the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Jan. 28, 2025. [Photo/Xinhua] Folk artists performed lion and dragon dances in Cambodia on Tuesday to ...

LOWELL — Four-year-old Rosabella Tayag was transfixed by a performance of the “Pestle Dance” in Lowell City Hall on Tuesday. Two members of the troupe held in each hand opposite ends of two poles, ...

That movement is political goes almost without saying: Why else would the Khmer Rouge regime have killed, or banished to stoop labor, more than 90 percent of Cambodia’s dance artists in the late ’70s?

The annihilation of ancient cultural traditions may continue in such places as Afghanistan, but the Cambodian people offer an inspiring example of how to reclaim and, where necessary, reconstruct lost ...