The other day, when I shared my project with my colleagues at Cambodian Living Arts, one of them sent on some pictures from a recent workshop and asked if I could post them. Unfortunately, I can't feature it as a daily picture because one of my rules is that the picture has to be taken the day it's posted, but I decided it would be fun to celebrate one week of this craziness and do a bonus post!
The workshop took place at CLA and one of the international schools in town, with a group of students from Australia and the US. They were learning some of the traditional dances. Here's a picture of the CLA students showing them how it's done:
You can see the traditional straight arms and the hands bent backwards. Cambodian classical dance tends to be very slow, but the monkey dance and the folk dances can be very lively.
Since the students were going to be attending a wedding as part of their trip, the CLA students spent a bit of time in the workshop teaching them some of the traditional dances. In the picture below, they're doing the "rom vong" dance, which essentially means "circle". And they do -- it goes in a circle. It's simple enough, 3-4 small steps and the hands circling, but of course, it's more complicated than it seems!
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Thanks a lot to CLA for sending this on, and by the way -- if you have dancing pictures, send them on! I'll be happy to feature a few guest pictures along the way.
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