Royal Ballet

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Royal Ballet

Cambodian ballet company

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Phnom Penh
A world-renowned attraction was the Royal Ballet, until modern times restricted to performances before Cambodian royalty. Its authentically bejeweled dancing girls gave mimed versions of ancient Buddhist and Hindu legends. There was also a national theatre.
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A world-renowned attraction was the Royal Ballet, until modern times restricted to performances before Cambodian royalty. Its authentically bejeweled dancing girls gave mimed versions of ancient Buddhist and Hindu legends. There was also a national theatre.
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Cambodia
Music and dance forms
The Royal Ballet in Phnom Penh specialized in the classical, highly stylized apsara dances as well as dance-dramas recounting the Reamker (Ramayana) epic and other tales. Those forms were adapted over the centuries by both the Khmer and the Thai from the ancient dances of Angkor.…
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The Royal Ballet in Phnom Penh specialized in the classical, highly stylized apsara dances as well as dance-dramas recounting the Reamker (Ramayana) epic and other tales. Those forms were adapted over the centuries by both the Khmer and the Thai from the ancient dances of Angkor.…
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