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Princess Who Saved Cambodian Classical Dance, Norodom Buppha Devi, Dead At 76

PEOPLE Posted: November 20, 2019 7:35 am

The daughter of the late King Sihanouk. she began dancing at age 5; by age 16, she was a leader of the royal dance company and a mainstay of Cambodian cultural diplomacy. She fled the country when the Khmer Rouge took control in 1975; in the 1990s, she returned and, with the 10% of dancers who survived the killing fields, set about to revive the art form. – Reuters

PEOPLE Published: 11.18.19

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