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The Royal Cambodian Ballet was added to the UNESCO list of intangible world heritage in 2003. Prince Sisowath Tesso of Cambodia serves as Director of the Royal Cambodian Ballet, and oversees its internationalisation.

He engages with opera houses in many countries in order to bring the Ballet to new destinations. Under his guidance the Royal Cambodian Ballet performed for the very first time in 2014 in the Middle East, and 2019 at the Louvre Abu Dhabi.

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Performances were held in three cities including Paris, and the tour was a tremendous success. A celebrated sculptor, who was fascinated by one of their performances in Paris, took the train down to Marseilles and spent three days with the dancers.

By the time the troupe left, he had drawn more than 200 portraits. The success of the royal troupe served to legitimise France’s presence in Cambodia as both protectors of the monarchy and patron of the arts.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybbPIF3xhIU

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The Royal Cambodian Ballet is a form of performing arts established in the heart of the Khmer regal court, formerly exclusively available to royalty, nobles and other courtiers.

It aims to showcase the dancers in scenes recounting tales of good and evil, princes and princesses and mythological battles, in the Khmer classical dance style.

This theatre style was highly ritualized and used to celebrate royal ceremonies that served to establish the authority of the courts.

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In the early 1950s, Princess Kossamak took it upon herself to reorganise the royal troupe with the few dance masters left after the Second World War. However, with the Khmer Rouge coming to power in 1975, any form of traditional culture was then banned in order to build a ‘new society’, resulting in as many as 90 per cent of the dance practitioners perishing from disease, overwork, starvation and slaughter.

After the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime in 1979, dancers, as well as ordinary citizens - mostly women - were the first to take steps towards the revitalisation of the art of dance. This work was done both in and outside the country and Royal Dance or Classical Dance is now one of Cambodia’s most enduring art forms.

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Producers:
The Royal Cambodian Ballet. Today most dancers are female, however, the Royal Cambodian Ballet is encouraging families to train young males in the tradition to revive the formerly male-only dances that began to decline with the arrival of the French to Cambodia in the 19th century.

Consumers (audience): Once performed only for royalty, the Royal Ballet of Cambodia is now attracting audiences among the masses in and outside Cambodia.

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Originally in the 19th century, the Royal Cambodian Ballet included stories that originated from Hindu and Buddhist legends and myths. It also included performances that could last several days and short pieces of ballet or comic scenes inserted as a distraction for the king and the audience.

Expansion diffusion
In the early 20th century, the French colonial authorities commissioned the royal troupe to perform at the 1906 Colonial Exhibition in Marseilles (Mar-say), which formed part of the official visit by the newly crowned King Sisowath.

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Traditionally, the royal troupe’s repertoire included stories that originated from Hindu and Buddhist legends and myths.

In the nineteenth century, performances could last several days and short pieces of ballet or comic scenes were inserted as a distraction for the king and the audience.