The kingdom of Cambodia is suffering from the conservation of physical cultural heritage. Now a day International agencies such as UNESCO are doing some efforts to safeguard the glorious Angkor temples situated in the North West part of the country.
Folkloric music and dance:
In Cambodia the folkloric tradition has always given rise to number of different performance genres. From past centuries they have interacted and draw the inference in to the court traditions. The source materials were common such as the Javanese panji cycle, the Ramayana, jataka stories and some of the locally common mythology. Unfortunately some of these genres, e,g, folk theatres lakhaon boeuk bot and lakhaon pramochtei have now almost vanished.
Some overseas-funded enterprises are always attempting to name funds to revive some of these lost forms. Some famous living masters or students of those wonderful masters are still there to lend their support. It can be seen that each of the region has its own unique folk dance traditions. These are undoubtedly linked to local ceremonies and some special days. In recent time the National Theatre Company performed the ‘Khmer folkloric dances’ i.e. robam prapeyney and these are actually a recent origin. In 1960’s these were choreographed at the Royal University of Fine Arts. You can notice that many of these folkloric dances are based on older forms. These were created to celebrate some notable periods of the year such as time of some group games when men officially flirt with young women and also at the harvest time or New Year.
In neighboring places like Laos and Thailand ‘popular dances’ such as robam pracheaprey spread fast throughout the country. The time was the the early years of the 20th century. The most popular dances can be mentioned as the ever-present group circle dance. This was known as ram vong while a related style was known as ram kbach.
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