Siem Reap, Cambodia - Go for dinner in Cambodia’s tourist centre and there’s a good chance you will see a dance performance. But some educated people are beginning to complain that the dancers are not properly trained – and the rattling of cutlery debases a traditional art-form.
Near the small temple of Banteay Srey, Ravynn Karet-Coxen has established a school for “sacred dancers” to present dance in the context originally intended, as Guy De Launey reports in this BBC feature. Children dance school now learn to dance with discipline, following ancient style of dance developed in Angkor to respect the Khmer gods, king and people.
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