Apsara dance is a Classical dancing inspired by the apsara carvings and sculptures of Angkor and developed in the late 1940s by Queen Sisowath Kossamak
The central character of the dance, the apsara Mera, leads her coterie of apsaras through a flower garden where they partake of the beauty of the garden.Apsara acted a dance which was met with respect on stage. It was an presentation of beautiful young women in elegant and beautiful dresses, posturing to obtain respect from all spectators. So, as they stuck flower in their hair, they were not the object of exciting admiration for their personal appearance but to signified the joy of life in all beautiful things and the desire to appropriated and used all that nature bestows for our delight. Nor were they only the joyous beauties of life that belong to this form of the dance,
it was the Khmer Tep Apsara Dance and it was beautiful.
By Lyly SENG
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