"The beauty and elegance of the Cambodian Royal Ballet is legendary. British novelist Somerset Maugham witnessed a performance at Angkor in the 1920s and wrote that 'the beauty of these dances against the dark mystery of the temple made it the most beautiful and unearthly sight imaginable'.
"The dancers had an even greater impact on Auguste Rodin, who exclaimed on seeing a performance in Paris in 1906: 'These Cambodian women have given us everything antiquity could hold. It's impossible to see human nature reaching such perfection. There is only this and the Greeks'."
I do hope I can see some ballet whilst I am in Siem Reap - apparently there are performances at Raffles so fingers xxxed.
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