Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Khmer Arts Ensemble and Khmer Arts Academy
- Abstract:
- Khmer Arts is a nonprofit organization focusing on classical Cambodian dance based in Long Beach, California and Takhmao, Cambodia. This collection consists of 93 videorecordings of Khmer Arts Ensemble rehearsals and performances on digital video (DV) tape and DVD.
- Extent:
- 1.8 Linear Feet (3 boxes)
- Language:
- Collection materials are in English and Khmer.
- Preferred citation:
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Khmer Arts Records. MS-SEA043. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California. Date accessed.
For the benefit of current and future researchers, please cite any additional information about sources consulted in this collection, including permanent URLs, item or folder descriptions, and box/folder locations.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Khmer Arts is a nonprofit organization focusing on classical Cambodian dance based in Long Beach, California and Takhmao, Cambodia that was founded by renowned Cambodian American dance and choreographer Sophiline Cheam Shapiro. This collection consists of 93 videorecordings of Khmer Arts Ensemble rehearsals and performances on digital video (mini DV) tape and DVD.
- Biographical / historical:
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Khmer Arts is an independent non-profit organization founded in 2002 by Sophiline Cheam Shapiro and John Shapiro that is based in Long Beach, California, and in Takhmao, Cambodia. In Cambodia, Khmer Arts is recognized as one of the most important centers for advanced training in dance and the creation and presentation of new work in the classical form. Khmer Arts is the producer of the internationally acclaimed Khmer Arts Ensemble, conducts media projects, and in 2008 launched a research and archiving program.
- Acquisition information:
- Gift of Khmer Arts, 2012.
- Processing information:
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Processed by Kayleigh McDaniel, Megan Llovido, and Audra Eagle Yun, 2012.
- Accruals:
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Accruals expected.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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The collection is open for research. No images or videos may be reproduced from the collection for researchers without the explicit permission of the Khmer Arts. Researchers may not photograph any item within this collection.
- Terms of access:
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Property rights reside with the University of California. Khmer Arts and associated artists retain copyright over all materials.
- Preferred citation:
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Khmer Arts Records. MS-SEA043. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California. Date accessed.
For the benefit of current and future researchers, please cite any additional information about sources consulted in this collection, including permanent URLs, item or folder descriptions, and box/folder locations.
- Location of this collection:
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Southeast Asian ArchiveThe UCI Libraries, P.O. Box 19557Irvine, CA 92623-9557, US
- Contact:
- (949) 824-3947