Thursday, August 18, 2011

Cambodia dances to a new rhythm


Cambodia is best known by travellers for Angkor Wat and the Killing Fields - but the country is also looking forward.

There has been a revival of traditional and contemporary arts across the country and Phnom Penh has become a hotbed of creativity and young talent. Michelle Jana Chan travelled to the capital to look at this resurgence.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Oh ! You guy just know about Khmer story ?
Khmer has its own civilization since American does not exist yet.

Anonymous said...

Stop wasting time dancing Khmer's and join Miss.Universe already damn!! Or else the world will never know about our country and culture!!! Instead of wasting time dancing like drunken idiots at least start sketching and designing national costumes for Cambodia!!!

Anonymous said...

11:04 AM
No self sacrifice no miss universe.

But don't worry about miss universe.
Late or soon, we Khmer will have very beautiful mix dark skin Khmer and light skin Caucasian to represent our people and to show the world.

Anonymous said...

Khmer people could change to a new
rhythm,but not far from the original
one.The arts of dances have meanings.
The dancers lift their legs up,shake
bodies,raise hands,bend their bodies
and so on.

The Khmer empire engineers were
smart enough to carve Khmer dances
on the walls of the temples in
Cambodia,in Thailand,Lao,and some
temples in Khmer Krom(South Vietnam).