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Contributing Institution:
Special Collections and Archives, University of California, Irvine
Libraries
Title: Khmer Arts records
Creator:
Khmer Arts Ensemble
Creator:
Khmer Arts Academy
Identifier/Call Number: MS.SEA.043
Physical Description:
1.8 Linear Feet
(3 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1999-2011
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.
Language of Material: Collection materials are in English
and Khmer.
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.
Property rights reside with the University of California. Khmer Arts and associated artists
retain copyright over all materials.
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.
Gift of Khmer Arts, 2012.
Accruals expected.
Processed by Kayleigh McDaniel, Megan Llovido, and Audra Eagle Yun, 2012.
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.
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.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Dance -- Cambodia
Cambodian Americans -- Archives
Digital moving image formats
Theater -- Cambodia.
Performing arts -- Cambodia.
DVDs