The UCSB MultiCultural Center will present classical Cambodian dancer and choreographer Charya Burt, whose dance performance, “Ancient Transformations: An Evening with Charya Burt Cambodian Dance” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Khmer Dance Academy is bringing dance from a thousand year old Cambodian tradition asking for a "deliverance of rain," to drier-than-normal Butte for the Montana Folk Festival. Prumsodun Ok (call him ...

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 ...

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?