It was an interesting experience and I'm glad, in the end, that I did it. In the sense that I wanted to show a bit of my life in Cambodia as a dancer and choreographer I think it was a success. However in the idea that there's always a bit of dance in every day, I'm not sure the pictures showed that. There were many days that I took the picture because I had to and as such had to think about a position or something else that would show 'dance,' but it was five seconds out of the day and didn't necessarily mean that there was 'dance' that day. It's also difficult to show movement in a static picture, so more often than not it was not really "dancing," but a "dance-like" pose that I can do because of my training.
It's impossible to show in pictures how dance factors in my life. While I'm not in rehearsal or dancing in the streets every day, I am always thinking about it -- planning a project, considering something, reflecting, watching, etc. It is not something that I think about or am necessarily aware of, but it is always present. It's hard to capture in photos -- for example, walking with my friends or jamming to music I hear somewhere, I'm always in movement or trying something, but it's not something that I can easily capture in a photo. After, most of the time I was alone, which makes it more difficult. In those cases I had to come up with solutions like take pictures of my feet under a table or use the shadows or mirrors or whatever it might be. In that sense it was excellent creative work as I was forced to find other solutions but doesn't necessarily reflect my daily experience of dance.
In short, it succeeded in some ways I expected and some in others, and failed in some ways I expected and some in others.
Much like any other creative project, in other words.
I will leave you with a couple of montages -- one with all 100 photos laid out (though not in order), above, and the other a mosiac of Day 7, my favorite picture, with the other pictures (repeated several times) making up the whole.
Until next project!
