Choreographers in Cambodia

Chey Chankethya, a classical dance instructor at Cambodia’s National School of Arts, was born in the capital of Phnom Penh in 1985. She entered the dance programme at the state arts school in 1991 and graduated in 1999.More ...

Kim Sathia was born in Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh. In 1975, at the age of seven, she and her family were forced to flee the city for an unforgiving existence in the countryside under the rule of the Khmer Rouge.More ...

Working with the country’s finest performing artists, Sophiline Cheam Shapiro has infused Cambodian dance with new ideas and energy, and dramatically expanded its global reach at the same time.More ...

A Phnom Penh native, Chumvan Sodhachivy – who goes by the name of “Belle” – began her dance training in 1994 at the age of 9. She graduated from the theatre production / choreography programme at the Royal University of Fine Arts in 2007.More ...

Phon Sopheap was born in Cambodia’s Kandal Province in 1981. He graduated from the dance programme at the National School of Arts in Phnom Penh in 2000 with a specialization in the monkey role in the predominantly all-male masked-dance genre of lakhon khol.More ...