About Digital Collections
Browse
Search only public domain materials
Search Browse About
Search only public domain materials
Items Collections Divisions
Digital Collections Using Images Using Data
Items HRH Princess Norodom Buppha Devi in conversation with Peter Sellars

Error when loading video.

HRH Princess Norodom Buppha Devi in conversation with Peter Sellars: with rare dance footage from Cambodia, 2013-04-30

More Details Cite This Item

Library division & collection with this item:

LIBRARY DIVISION
Jerome Robbins Dance Division

  • Choregraphie
  • A long minuet as danced at Bath
  • Sketchbook
  • Sarah Bernhardt's farewell American tour
  • Scrapbook documenting the appearances of dancer Alice Eis and her partner Bert French
  • The dance score
  • Traité élémentaire, théorique et pratique de l'art de la danse
  • Sketchbook
  • Coreografie per ballabili d'opera
  • Caricature of Sergeĭ Dyagilev
  • La sténochorégraphie
  • Ehon Tsūhōshi
  • Le maître a danser
  • America
  • Costume designs for the ballet La Pastorella Svizzera
Previous Next

COLLECTION
Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image Original Documentation

This Item

HRH Princess Norodom Buppha Devi in conversation with Peter Sellars

View this item elsewhere:

Title
HRH Princess Norodom Buppha Devi in conversation with Peter Sellars: with rare dance footage from Cambodia, 2013-04-30
Names
New York Public Library. Dance Division (Producer)
Norodom Buppha Devi Cambodian princess (Interviewee)
Sellars, Peter (Interviewer)
Rithisal Kang (Translator)
Chap Chamroeuntola (Dancer)
Chen Chansoda (Dancer)
Chamroeun Samphors (Dancer)
Soeur Thavarak (Dancer)
Davis, Jacqueline Z. (Jacqueline Zurat), 1946- (Speaker)
Schmidt, Jan, 1948- (Speaker)
Bernadi, François (Videographer)
Ballet royal (Cambodia) (Performer)
New York Public Library. Dance Division (Presenter)
Collection

Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image Original Documentation

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 2013-04-30
Table of Contents
Introductory remarks (7 min.) -- The Royal Ballet of Cambodia: dance instruction boys and girls excerpt, U.S. National Archives ca. 1960; Director, Hang Thun Hak; Artistic director, Y Seng An (2 min.) -- Classical Khmer Ballet APSARAS DANCE excerpt (2 min.) -- KHMER DANCE PROJECT Enao Bosseba excerpt (1 min.) -- KHMER DANCE PROJECT Sovannahong excerpt (2 min.) -- The Royal Ballet of Cambodia: solo dance by HRH Norodom Buppha Devi excerpt, U.S. National Archives ca. 1960; Director, Hang thun Hak; Artistic director, Y Seng An (2 min.) -- Interview with HRH Princess Norodom Buppha Devi (26 min.) -- Dance demonstration with members of Royal Ballet of Cambodia (8 min.) -- Continuation of interview (10 min.)
Library locations
Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Shelf locator: *MGZIDF 1326
Topics
Ballet royal (Cambodia)
Dance -- Cambodia
Dancers
Choreographers
Ballet -- Cambodia
Dance -- Study and teaching
Genres
Interviews
Filmed performances
Filmed dance
Notes
Statement of responsibility: Presented by The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Jerome Robbins Dance Division with Season of Cambodia and Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Content: Full length versions of video excerpts of materials held by the Library for the Performing Arts are available to view online. Classical Khmer Ballet APSARAS DANCE, part of *MGZIDVD 5-7845 (can only view on site at the Library for the Performing Arts). KHMER DANCE PROJECT Enao Bosseba, *MGZIDF 1256. KHMER DANCE PROJECT Sovannahong, *MGZIDF 1261.
Performers: Her Royal Highness Princess Norodom Buppha Devi, interviewee ; Peter Sellars, interviewer ; Rithisal Kang, interpreter ; Chap Chamroeuntola, Chen Chansoda, Chamroeun Samphors, Soeur Thavarak, dancers.
Performers: Jacqueline Z. Davis (The Barbara G. and Lawrence A. Fleischman Executive Director of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts), Jan Schmidt (Curator, Jerome Robbins Dance Division), introductory speakers.
Venue: Recorded 30 April 2013 Bruno Walter Auditorium, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York City.
Funding: The Khmer Dance Project was initiated by the Center for Khmer Studies in partnership with the Jerome Robbins Dance Division of the New York Public Library, with a grant from the Anne Hendricks Bass Foundation.
Funding: The recording of this event was made possible by the Khmer Dance Project
Language: Introductions done in English. Interviewee speaks Khmer with English interpreter. Interviewer speaks English.
Physical Description
Born digital
Extent: 1 video file (60 min) : sound, color with some black and white
Description
After introductory remarks, the program begins with a series of video excerpts from the U.S. National Archives and the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Jerome Robbins Dance Divisions collections. Following the videos, HRH Norodom Buppha Devi is interviewed by Peter Sellars through her interpreter Rithisal Kang. She discusses the Cambodian Royal family's long-standing involvement and patronage of Khmer ballet as well as her own involvement, starting as a child training as a dancer at the age of 5. She also discusses the Apsara dance, created in 1962 for her by her grandmother, as well as her other family members' involvement in Khmer ballet. She is asked about her grandmother's role in the transformation of Cambodian classical dance in the 1940s and 1950s and efforts to preserve the Cambodian dance heritage. At 42 min., there is a dance demonstration by members of the Royal Ballet of Cambodia.
Type of Resource
Moving image
Languages
English
Central Khmer
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b19958068
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): a3226790-352b-0131-ce9e-3c075448cc4b
Rights Statement
This item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).

Item timeline of events

  • 2013: Digitized
  • 2013: Created
  • 2025: Found by you!
  • 2026

MLA Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "HRH Princess Norodom Buppha Devi in conversation with Peter Sellars" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 2013. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/70add590-343a-0131-c164-3c075448cc4b

Chicago/Turabian Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "HRH Princess Norodom Buppha Devi in conversation with Peter Sellars" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed January 18, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/70add590-343a-0131-c164-3c075448cc4b

APA Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. (2013). HRH Princess Norodom Buppha Devi in conversation with Peter Sellars Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/70add590-343a-0131-c164-3c075448cc4b

Wikipedia Citation

<ref name=NYPL>{{cite web | url=https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/70add590-343a-0131-c164-3c075448cc4b | title= (moving image) HRH Princess Norodom Buppha Devi in conversation with Peter Sellars, (2013)|author=Digital Collections, The New York Public Library |accessdate=January 18, 2025 |publisher=The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations}}</ref>

HRH Princess Norodom Buppha Devi in conversation with Peter Sellars