CAMBODIA | Saturday, 23 January 2010 | Views [313]
We visited a program in Siem Reap that helps impoverished village children get an education – which includes learning traditional Khmer dances. Each Sunday night the children offer performances that yield donations that help fund the program. Here, two girls perform Apsara dancing – the same dances depicted on the reliefs at Angkor Wat. Knowledge of these dances was destroyed by the Khmer Rouge, and it took the assistance of Thai dancers to bring them back to Cambodia.