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A Cambodian New Year

April 21, 2010

Sou sdey, chnam tmey! Which for those of you who don’t speak Khmer, translates into Happy New Year! Yes I know, it’s April not January or even February like Chinese New Year but there’s a reason for that. Cambodians celebrate their New Year from April 13-15th (or whatever weekend falls close for those not in Cambodia) as those dates typically land at the end of the harvesting season.

Traditionally the New Year is celebrated with blessings that involve wiping powder on peoples faces and water fights while the hard working farmers take a moment to enjoy the fruits of their harvest and relax before the rainy season begins. Now as you can imagine, the celebrations are quite a bit different here in the States and abroad than they are in Cambodia but the partying is still there nonetheless. Here in Long Beach, the celebrations started with the 6th Annual Cambodian New Year Parade which took place on April 4th followed by the annual New Year Celebration at El Dorado Park on the 10th. Now normally I would have been out there documenting the celebrations with my camera, but this year I told myself to just simply enjoy the party instead of taking photos of everyone else enjoying it. But with that said, I couldn’t stop myself from snapping a few photos so here are some shots from the New Years Parade and a few more from KAA’s performance at El Dorado Park. Enjoy!

Cambodian New Year

And as always, you can find the rest of the photos from KAA’s performance at SOJOURN FOTO’s Online Gallery.

Tags: Cambodian New Year, El Dorado Park, Khmer Arts Academy, Long Beach
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Rise of a New Empire

April 6, 2010

Last Saturday, April 3rd, marked the 26th Annual Cambodian Student Society Culture Show. For those of you who aren’t familiar with either the Cambodian Student Society (CSS) or their Culture Show; the Culture Show is an annual show hosted by the members of CSS at Cal State Long Beach to showcase and preserve the Cambodian culture and customs within the student body at Cal State Long Beach. For more information about CSS and their mission you can visit their website here.

Oh and before you go, be sure to visit my gallery here for the rest of the photos from the Culture Show!

Tags: Cal State Long Beach, Cambodian Association of America, Cambodian Student Society, Culture Show, Evolved Monkey Combat, Khmer Arts Academy
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A Dirt Lot + A Cambodian Exile + Cain and Abel = “Expulsion”

March 23, 2010

A family torn apart by war only to be reunited in a far away land. A brother’s jealously leads to the death of another. A dirt lot in the City of Long Beach plus the creative minds of the Collage Dance Theatre and Khmer Arts Academy equals modern day story of those two tales: Expulsion.

And if you’d like to see the rest of the photos from Expulsion, you can find them here!

Tags: Arts Council for Long Beach’s A LOT series, Cambodian Classical Dance, Collage Dance Theatre, Expulsion, Khmer Arts Academy, Long Beach
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Expulsion

March 15, 2010

So what’s there to do on a Sunday afternoon in a vacant dirt lot on a nondescript corner of Long Beach? Plenty if you’re one of the Collage Dance Theatre or Khmer Arts Academy dancers practicing for an upcoming performance. About two months ago Heidi Duckler of the Collage Dance Theatre approached the dancers of Khmer Arts Academy with an offer to collaborate on something new and different for The Arts Council for Long Beach’s A LOT series. The product of that collaboration is Expulsion. Which is, as quoted from the Collage Dance Theatre’s website:

“Expulsion”, a new work from Heidi Duckler and Collage Dance Theatre will activate a vacant lot in Cambodia Town. Based on the themes of immigration and displacement, this cross-disciplinary site performance will explore the temporary, often fragile nature of “home.”

So I don’t want to spoil it for you but it’s definitely going to be something new and different if you’re expecting a traditional performance from KAA. Part of the collaboration between the Collage Dance Theatre and KAA was meant to push both groups to their creative boundaries as both groups had to be able to adapt to and create a new performance to fit not only fit the theme of Expulsion, but location and setting as well. So while you’ll probably recognize a lot of what’s taken from traditional Classical Cambodian Dance, this performance features new choreography that was created exclusively for Expulsion. I should also say that the new dance combined with the acrobatic performance of the Collage Dance Theatre should definitely keep you entertained. But that’s enough for me, on to the photos!

Anyways I hope you enjoyed that little sneak peak. If you want to see the rest of the performance in full you’ll have to show up to that nondescript vacant dirt lot on either March 19th or March 20th at 6 pm. For more information about Expulsion or the Collage Dance Theatre you can visit their site here or just take a look below.

Date: March 19th and 20th, 2011.
Time: 6:00 pm.
Location: 1546 E. Anaheim Street, Long Beach, CA 90813. At the intersection of Anaheim and Walnut across from Mark Twain Library.

Tags: Collage Dance Theatre, Expulsion, Khmer Arts Academy, Long Beach's A LOT Series
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