The royal ballet of cambodia

Video in Fès Festival 2010

Between the 1700 mythical sculptural Apsaras living in the architectural kingdom of Angkor and the present female dancers of the Royal Ballet from Cambodia, the border is so thin that the stone seems to have moved into flesh century after century to make the divine grace and the delicate and delicious sensuality of the sacred dancers alive.
Though, the Royal Ballet has fighted against forgetting, civil wars (The Pol Pot period) and invasions to rise from one's ashes in the 50s-60s with the creation of a Royal Fine Arts University in Phnom Penh and with the considerable impulse blown by Princess Norodom Buppha Devi, both dancing star and director of the Royal Ballet.
As a reward of many years of efforts and fight for freedom of art, the Royal Ballet has just been proclamed and recognized by the Unesco as belonging to the Immaterial Patrimony of Humanity.
The Royal Ballet will present on its October/November 2004 tour a creation on the fabulous myth of the love story between the divine Monorea, half-bird, half-women, and Prince Preah Sothun. In the legend of Monorea (quite different from the Ramayana) the initation is also revelation of beauty, both for the heroe and for the audience.
The marvellous is emphasized by the music of the Pin Peat Orchestra (made of glimmering gongs and drums and of a oboe) and the songs of the choir, by the perfection of the gesture, the refinement of the posture and the precious details of each golden costume which has been directly sewed on the dancer's body before the performance.
The prestigious and intemporal Royal Ballet from Cambodia makes it possible the complete fusion of Soul and Body, of Dream and Reality, of the Human and the Divine through the intermediary feature of the Monarch.

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[smqsuccess]

@AbsoluteWinner

I am Thai but I agree with you this is absolutely ORIGINAL. We Thai have been receiving the style of dancing, clothing and several styles of these dancing from Khmer. I can say this is real Khmer Original undoubtedly since I have been watching so many videos of Royal Khmer Dancing. Shame on my people that try to blame on you but actually they're blaming themselves. For several fake Thai histories that the Thai Kids have been learning in school...many real things are hidden.

[AbsoluteWinner]

@TheChamaemelum

UNESCO listed Khmer original culture as world heritage not Thai because Thai is a fake culture.

Internet brings Khmer and Thai to the world today and we see a lot of fake in Thailand even Thai higher education like Panich from Thai MP get lost in prison in Cambodia because he learn Thai fake history.

[CityOfKhmerGodKings]

Khmer are the origin of everything in SEA.

[kikkapooBUU]

ลองไปถามครูเขมรดูซิ รู้จักมจ.หญิงฉวีวาดไหม

นางนี่แหละ ที่ขนเครื่องละครที่ได้รับมรดกจ­ากเจ้าจอมมารดาอำภา หนีไปพึ่งเขมรแหละ

[AngkorWTF]

I feel so proud to be Cambodian seeing the video above but so ashamed and embarassed looking at the comments below, all neighbouring asian countries bickering like school children.

[kkkt1000]

@apple1988able ไทยและกัมพูชา มีวัฒนธรรมเหมือนกัน

นับถือพุทธศาสนาเหมือนกัน

มีพื้นที่ใกล้กัน

มีความใกล้ชิดกัน

มากกว่าชาวตะวันตก

อังกฤษและฝรั่งเศสสร้าง

ประวัติศาสตร์ให้เราเกลียดกัน

ศิลปะเจริญเพราะการแลกเปลี่ยนซึ­้งกันและกัน

Thailand and Cambodia. The same culture. Buddhist alike. The area closer together. Are very close together. Than Caucasians. Britain and France created. History that we hate each other. Artistic growth because of the interchange

[kkkt1000]

@smqsuccess ผมว่า การใช้คำว่ากอปปี้ ลอกเลียนแบบในวัฒนธรรมไทยเขมร คงใช้ไม่ได้นะครับ ไทยอยุธยา นำปราชญ์เขมร มาไว้ในราชสำนัก จริงแต่วัฒนธรรมอยุธยานั้นได้ผส­มผสาน ไทย มอญ มลายู ด้วย จึงเกิดเป็นนาฎศิลป์ แบบไทยอยุธยาขึ้น เมื่อต้นรัตนโกสินทร์ จึงกลับคืนไปยังกัมพูชาอันเป็นป­ระเทศราช เจ้าชาย กัมพูชาที่มาพำนักกรุงเทพฯ นำไปเผยแพร่กัมพุชา ศิลปะวัฒนธรรมเขมร ในยุคหลังจึงมีอิทธิพลของกรุงเท­พฯ การแลกเปลี่ยนผสมประสาน เป็นความงามที่ต่อยอดให้งดงามแล­ะอมตะมากขึ้น เอาเส้นเขตแดนออกดีกว่าครับ

[PailinAC]

@smqsuccess i agree if u say apsara is khmer original. but this's not real khmer.

this dance khmer just began on 100 years ago by a thai teacher.

i sawonly apsara on angkor wat. i didn't see this, or i missed something? show me please, thai :)

[usaguru1]

@antigenU There are many ancient Khmer ruins such as Phnom Rung, Pymai, and many more that attract millions of tourists each year to Thailand and now you guys are fighting for Preah Vihear because you want our temples. Khmer people never care about the Royal Palace. It just a place to house a broken royal families. It is not a land mark.

[usaguru1]

@boonyatae Khmer have been dancing since the Funan period which started in 100 AD.Buddhism does not promote dance culture. Khmer believed in Hinduism and dancing was a big part of Hinduism. Lord Shiva danced danced to create and destroy the world. Since Khmer kings considered themselves as god kings, they made their earth living as the images of the gods. Dancing played a big part in the royal court- entertainment as well as for rituals, praying, and to appease the gods.

[apple1988able]

i can say that thai or siam is a very smart copy cat,they(thai) make the khmer culture flourish even lot better than cambodia now,that is because cambodia going through tooooo much wars,i feel really sad as a cambodian....but thai cant deny the fact that they copy from khmer and it also the fact that they make it(the culture) a lot better than today khmer.