The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts has commissioned a new work titled Synthetic by Dam Van Huynh.
Watch this interview of Dam Van Huynh ahead of our London Premiere of Re:birth at The Place on Tuesday 14 November 2023, 7.30pm.
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"This is a performance which pushes at the boundaries of what dance can be, and there is a thrilling sense of danger in the way the cast (...) allow their bodies to twist and turn with abandon."
"it is simply theatrical anarchism in its most beautiful form."
“Everything about my existence – the fact that I’m speaking through the form of dance and making artwork – is all political because I come from a displacement due to political implications."
"I think the most important lesson I have learnt through the years is the notion of narrative and re-narrative. To be able to find and narrate my own path and story rather than let others define me, has helped me to liberate my creative thinking, giving me a wider scope of approaches towards making work that interests me (...)"
Dam Van Huynh is interviewed on TV by London Live ahead of the London Premiere of Re:birth at The Place.
Choreographer Dam Van Huynh draws upon the words of writers, poets, activists, and his experience as a child refugee from the Vietnam war to create a
Dam Van Huynh / Van Huynh Company is looking for a performer from the Global Majority to join his company of artists to complete and premiere a new work in development.
We are delighted to announce that we will present the London premiere of Re:birth at The Place on Tuesday 14 November 2023