Aging Khmer Classical Dance Masters Fight To Save Millenium-Old Art Form

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By Eric Gau/John Van Trieste/Klein Wang

Khmer classical dance has endured over a millennium in Cambodia, surviving even the brutality and mass killings of the Khmer Rouge regime in the 1970s. But today, dancing masters worry about waning interest among young people. Though at least some Gen Z dancers are determined to carry on the tradition.