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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

In 1989, ten years after the fall of the genocidal regime of the Khmer Rouge (1975-1979, under the leadership of Pol Pot), Cambodians still found themselves engulfed in violence. Hundreds of thousands ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In one of the most compelling films to hold its world premiere at the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival, archive ...

ST. CHARLES — For Paul Cravath, Cambodia conjures up images of beauty and death. Cravath, a native of Chatfield, arrived in Cambodia during the 1975 war that is the subject of the film, "The Killing ...

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 ...

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.