Day 3
Where: The balcony outside the rehearsal room at Cambodian Living Arts
Who: This is Dara. He is an 18-year-old Cambodian dancer, trained in classical and folk dance through the program at Cambodian Living Arts. I met him over a year and a half ago during the seven weeks of choreography workshops I gave at CLA when I first got to Cambodia -- indeed, the reason I originally came here. Dara is a very talented dancer and impressed me from the beginning -- since then, I've been finding excuses to work with him. So far, that counts for five performances already!
Why dance?: Dara and I are currently rehearsing for two performances at the Sibu International Dance Festival in Malaysia (which will happen during this project). Our main performance is a duet about two people who are in love, but speak different movement languages (me ballet, him Cambodian dance), and have to negotiate their differences. Here, Dara is doing his own "Cambodian contemporary" movement, with Phnom Penh behind him and a traditional pedestal used to give offerings to the ancestors next to him. You can definitely expect to see more of Dara in this series!
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