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Choreographing Cambodia

Contemporary Dance and the Reproduction of National Identity

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Choreographing Cambodia

Contemporary Dance and the Reproduction of National Identity

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Choreographing Cambodia is an interdisciplinary exploration of the connections between geopolitics, embodiment, and post-conflict cultural aesthetics, engaged with via a detailed and empirically grounded analysis of contemporary dance in Cambodia. Popular imaginations of Cambodia still primarily associate the country with the genocidal regime of the Khmer Rouge (1975-1979), as war-torn and violent. However, young people under 30 who did not live through the Khmer Rouge now make up over 65% of Cambodia's population and see their country as a modern, developed nation.

This book examines the role of contemporary dance in forging these new imaginaries of Cambodia, and the entwined legacies of both war and peace on the creative desires of this young generation. It attends to the contestations and contradictions that result, and examines how contemporary dance navigates these tensions to produce an expanded socio-political field. The imaginaries and worlds that are expressed and enacted through dance, are thus shown to simultaneously intervene in, and be shaped by, geopolitical forces. As such, the book is concerned with how contemporary dance offers new insights into the entanglement of geopolitics, choreography and identity, whilst also offering the first sustained analysis of contemporary dance in Cambodia.

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Table of Contents

Introduction: Choreographing Cambodia

Chapter 1: Discussing Contemporary Dance in Cambodia

Chapter 2: Contemporary Dance Training, Livelihoods and Audiences in Cambodia

Chapter 3: The Dance of Everyday Life

Chapter 4: Queering Through Strength

Chapter 5: Disability and Choreopolitics

Chapter 6: Indigeneity and Relational Ontologies

Chapter 7: Securing the Nation

Conclusion: Choreographic In/stability

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Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published Oct 15 2026
Format Ebook (PDF)
Edition 1st
Pages 256
ISBN 9781350282179
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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Amanda Rogers

Dr Amanda Rogers is an Associate Professor in Huma…

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