This yet another stylish and artistic dance performed by Cambodians. It also celebrates Khmer culture for its richness and detail.
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Thursday, January 8, 2009
Khmer Dance
Although the Khmer traditional dance was almost completely devastated by the Khmer rouge killing fields of the 1970s, they prevail as important factor Khmer life and tradition. Khmer classical dance has shares common ground with many of Thailand's and Laotian dances. Most known in the English world as the Khmer royal ballet or the Cambodian court dance , Cambodians take pride in their beautiful detailed "robam preah reachea trop" or "robam kbach boran khmer." The artistic dance is mainly performed by females, its dancers are known as aspara dancers.
Labels:
Cambodia,
Cambodian Culture,
Dances,
Khmer Traditional dance
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