Draft:Charya Burt

Charya Burt is a Cambodian dancer, choreographer, vocalist and teacher of Classical Cambodian Dance, also known as the Royal Ballet of Cambodia. After the Khmer Rouge genocide, Burt trained extensively with Cambodia’s surviving dance masters and toured internationally as a member of Cambodia’s Royal Dance Troupe. Before emigrating to the United States in 1993 she was a dance instructor at Cambodia’s Royal University of Fine Arts.