Look & Listen: Cambodian Art and Dance of the Divine Serpent

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Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art

3 жыл бұрын

#LookandListen
Look & Listen: Cambodian Art and Dance of the Divine Serpent, Sophiline Cheam Shapiro, dancer/choreographer, with curator Emma Natalya Stein
Explore the symbolism of the legendary serpent deity, the naga, as it has long been expressed in art across South and Southeast Asia and in Cambodian classical dance. See how the naga is depicted in sculptures, royal adornment, and ritual objects representing the serpent’s many positive roles as a bridge connecting the human and divine worlds. Watch classical Khmer (Cambodian) dance that embodies the aesthetic of the serpent and tells stories of the naga’s actions in the world, accompanied by Khmer court music.
Our guides will be dancer and choreographer Sophiline Cheam Shapiro and curator Emma Natalya Stein.
Sophiline Cheam Shapiro is founding director of the Khmer Arts Academy and was awarded a National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts (the United States’ highest honor in the traditional arts). She has both studied and taught at Cambodia’s Royal University of Fine Arts in Phnom Penh. Cheam Shapiro is also a graduate of UCLA’s World Arts and Cultures Program and has expanded the possibilities of her dance form to address modern themes. Her many original choreographies have been performed at Muziektheater in Amsterdam, China Conservatory of Music in Beijing, Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, the Hong Kong Arts Festival, The Joyce Theater in New York, Dans Festival in Singapore, and Schönbrunn Palace Theater in Vienna. She last appeared at the Freer and Sackler in 2019.
Emma Natalya Stein is assistant curator of South and Southeast Asian art at the Freer and Sackler. Her recent exhibitions include Power in Southeast Asia and Prehistoric Spirals: Earthenware from Thailand.
Photo courtesy of Sophiline Arts Ensemble

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@reaksmeysreyneang488 3 жыл бұрын

ប្រទេសកម្ពុជា មាតុភូមិជាទីស្នេហា🇰🇭❤️

@narykeat1443 11 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing the Cambodia cultural heritage dance and I missed them so much they are died in the civil war and a few of them still alive including me and I loved my beautiful Khmer lands and always forever 🥲

@user-cl2du9bi6g 6 ай бұрын

This is Thai culture. This is Thai national dress. Khmer is king of copy.

@Tophuu_ 6 ай бұрын

@@user-cl2du9bi6g Why are you copying and pasting this comment over and over again? It's Khmer culture, first off, and this is Khmer national dress; as for Thai, is it very different from Khmer?

@user-cl2du9bi6g 6 ай бұрын

@@Tophuu_This is Thai national dress, and Thai culture not khmer. This is call Cambodia influenced from Thailand, because Siam(Thai) ruled Cambodia for hundreds of years (400-500 years) before ceding it to France.

@johnseto4928 3 жыл бұрын

Bravo, Sophiline, on your creation of new work as well as preserving traditional dance and music. CA will always be proud to claim you as an adopted daughter!

@vannmakara998 3 жыл бұрын

ស្រស់ស្អាតមែន 👍👍🇰🇭👍🇰🇭🇰🇭🇰🇭🇰🇭

@Tophuu_ 6 ай бұрын

Unfortunately, so many Thai people keep complaining about how Khmer stole Thai culture, in my opinion, both Thai, Lao, Khmer used to be in one Empire, which is the Khmer Empire during the 11th to 14th century when the Thai (Siam) invaded the citizen of Khmer people. Yes, Khmer culture was influenced by the Thai, but the dress, headpiece, and dances are entirely the opposite. Also, from my research, the Khmer dance originated in Cambodia during the 18th and 19th centuries. The Thais had transported a part of the Khmer court and dancers to Ayutthaya and adopted the Khmer dance tradition. However, they developed it in their own manner during the succeeding centuries. The result is present-day Thai dance. So, overall, the dance and music are from Cambodia.

@junkmail562 Ай бұрын

With a little research, there is so much information that we do have. Funan = indigenous tribes of mon-khmer 5th-2nd BC (no prasat were built yet) Khmer = India Brahma/ mon-khmer tribes 1st century Burma = India / Nepal / Tibetan / China / Mongolia / mon-khmer 8th century Thai = Tai ( southern china / old Taiwanese island ) / Burma/ mon-khmer 10th century Laos = Thai / Mongolia northern China / mon-khmer 13th century This is why we are so much alike. Maybe we all did built it together but got lost throughout the centuries due to the multiple kingdoms and leaderships. But they all link back to khmer and old Khmer. How can Khmer copy thai when Burma is older than thai. Burma is not going around spreading false information. The ancient siam were diffidently khmer blood. Somewhere down the line the Tai/Dai, which is a minority of China came in to settle where is Thailand is today. Little by little the Khmer bloodline vanish, therefore they no longer consider the bloodline of the Khmer blood. This is where the confusion and conflict started since the 15th century.

@user-rf4uq7yw2o 3 жыл бұрын

ប្រទេសកម្ពុជាមានវប្បធម៌ស្រស់ស្អាត។❤️🇰🇭🥰

@Lllln8888 Жыл бұрын

วัฒนธรรมที่มาจากไทย ครูไทยสอนรำให้เขมร

@user-cl2du9bi6g 6 ай бұрын

ชุดไทย รำไทย เขมรคัดลอกไปจากไทย

@user-wf9zz8pr5b 3 жыл бұрын

សែនស្រឡាញ់😍😇🙏

@dipakkarki3606 2 жыл бұрын

Madams Thanks for the valuable information 👍❤️

@saroth369 7 ай бұрын

thank you ❤️🇰🇭🙏

@user-cl2du9bi6g 6 ай бұрын

Thai culture. Khmer is king of copy.

@Nao-sbnk04 Ай бұрын

❤❤❤❤❤❤

@KhmerBoranMusic_USA Ай бұрын

👍👍

@visaltaing6068 3 жыл бұрын

40:44

@chaymasa5023 2 жыл бұрын

របាំម្ករស្អាតណាស់❤️❤️❤️

@Lllln8888 Жыл бұрын

ครูไทยสอนให้เขมร

@user-cl2du9bi6g 6 ай бұрын

ชุดไทย รำไทย ล้วนคัดลอกจากครูไทยทั้งหมด

@poeleease4271 11 ай бұрын

We need a more modern dance.

@user-cl2du9bi6g 6 ай бұрын

Thai culture. Khmer is king of copy.

@Tophuu_ 6 ай бұрын

I also need to mention that there is a Thai user who kept replying to every Khmer-related video, saying, "Thai is original, Khmer is copying." over and over again, which I found very funny how they have a lot of time commenting on people's replies. I even like how they don't respond back to me as well- :o

@Nharayanaa 2 ай бұрын

The culture vultures are extremely restless, and they cannot tolerate seeing Khmer surpassing them in any ways. They are relentless and have resorted to all pathetic means, in trying to make the assertion that they are the originator of "Khmer culture". They're fixated on the period in history, when Cambodia was in the state of decline to pushed forth the narrative that Siam had influenced us. But in reality, they had borrowed, assimilated, and later modified it to their "Siam style". Truth of the matter is that, they are threatened by the potential of others because they know the truth. Since it's in their nature to be very vindictive, just can't ceased with the arrogance and st¢pidity... PERIOD!

@Ooilei 2 ай бұрын

Where was this filmed and is open to foreign visitors?

@sovannah9219 10 ай бұрын

thanks for making this! as a khmer american its so hard to find any information on Khmer art here

@user-cl2du9bi6g 6 ай бұрын

This is Thai culture Khmer is king of copy.

@NS-ve4ms Жыл бұрын

After this video, every curve in Khmer art will make think of divine serpent or dragon.

@user-cl2du9bi6g 6 ай бұрын

👉🇰🇭 Khmer is king of copy. This is Thai culture.

@NS-ve4ms 6 ай бұрын

@@user-cl2du9bi6g Pity. I feel so sorry you.

@visaltaing6068 2 жыл бұрын

0:20

@phanakpao4382 3 жыл бұрын

ចំណេះដឹងដ៏ល្អសម្រាប់យុវជនសម័យថ្មីបានសិក្សានឹងស្វែងយល់🥰

@user-cl2du9bi6g 6 ай бұрын

ชุดไทย รำไทย คัดลอกจากไทยสมัยอยุ่ใต้อำนาจของไทย

@Tophuu_ 6 ай бұрын

@@user-cl2du9bi6g មើលទៅនេះជាវប្បធម៌ខ្មែរ មិនថាជាសម្លៀកបំពាក់ជាតិថៃទេ ទាំងខ្មែរ និងថៃ គឺផ្ទុយស្រឡះពីគ្នា។

@HappyHikerGirl 2 жыл бұрын

I see that this film is part of an exhibit at the Freer Gallery, how do we see this if we are not in the Washington DC area?

@Lllln8888 Жыл бұрын

ไทยคือต้นตำรับสิ่งนี้ มาที่ไทยแล้วคุณจะเห็น

@user-cl2du9bi6g 6 ай бұрын

Thai culture. Khmer is king of copy.

@littlenicksovann3889 Жыл бұрын

Please say: Prasad Angkor. Please don't say: Angkor Wat.

@data3649 Жыл бұрын

Prasad mean temple

@user-cl2du9bi6g 6 ай бұрын

Angkor wat = India Khmer. ..... =Slave of India.

@billfahchannel934 Жыл бұрын

Khmer received many Thai culture 😂😂😂.

@gold-toponym Жыл бұрын

Khmer* Thai do not have a culture. It's indigenous austroasiatic, not Tai Kadai. Stop stealing from khmer mon lao tai burmese malay javanese indian vietnamese and persian and arab and tai yuan! And stop stealing everyone's genetics. you're not unique. khmer gave you 90000 royal court dancers and members in ayutthaya, and ayutthaya was mon khmer descent. Serpents are indigenous austroasiatic custom and legends. Stop plagiarizing and lying your language is barely half tai! that's why taungoo burma burned ayutthaya

@babyhummingbird111 Жыл бұрын

Says who? You? Thai.... you mean the Thais originally from China who escaped from slavery to the land of Khmers? You loved khmer culture so much that you fully abandoned your mother culture to adopt our culture and then in the end called it yours. Shame on you 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@cheangMuy 4 ай бұрын

Proof

@Nharayanaa 2 ай бұрын

@@gold-toponymThough they have tried to eradicate their true origin, but what still remains is the true nature. They are innately vindictive to the core. It's clearly evident in their behavior; they were nothing more than hillbillies in the past, who over times had"refined" themselves. Resorting to all means such as wh¢ring themselves for material gains, comes naturally to them.