Cambodian Royal Ballet / Creative Arts Television (Firm).

Format:

Video

Author/Creator:

Brockway, Merrill, author.

Contributor:

Bowers, Faubion, 1917-1999, Interviewer.

Brockway, Merrill., Director, Producer.

Creative Arts Television (Firm)

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dance--Cambodia.

Dance.

Genre:

Internet videos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (28 min., 31 sec.)) : sound, color.

Other Title:

Goddess Dancers of Cambodia : Classical Khmer Ballet

Place of Publication:

Kent, CT : Creative Arts Television, 1971.

[Place of publication not identified] : Creative Arts Television (Firm), [1971]

Language Note:

Closed-captioned.

System Details:

video file

Summary:

The Palace Dancers of Cambodia, once one of the finest Asian troupes in the world, perform two dances from the classical repertoire: "Indra's Garden and the Queen of the Apsaras," and "Mekhala and the Diamond." There is a demonstration of styles and commentary on training methods and Faubion Bowers, Asian arts expert, talks with an 18-year-old star dancer who demonstrates bending the wrist backward, hyperflexing the elbow, and balancing on one foot. This film was made before the political upheavals in Cambodia virtually destroyed that country and either killed or exiled The Palace Dancers.

Contents:

Cambodian Royal Ballet: Introduction (2:00)

Cambodia is Changed (2:41)

"Indra's Garden and Queen of the Apsaras" (7:14)

Meet the Queen of the Apsaras (4:17)

Cambodian Dance (2:20)

"Mekhala and the Diamond" (9:02)

Credits and Summary (0:42)

Participant:

Cambodian Royal Ballet.

Credits:

Director, Merrill Brockway ; producer, Merrill Brockway.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed Mar. 18, 2014).

Title from distributor's description (Infobase, November 16, 2016)

OCLC:

972709572

Publisher Number:

124228 Infobase