"In Realness offers an honest criticism of political bodies and ideologies, expressed in raging queer physicality."
"British Afro-Caribbean singer-dancer Elaine Mitchener doesn’t dance to the music but as it: a possession, an Eastman."
"In reality Dam van Huynh in collaboration with Tommaso Petrolo create a disquieting work of dance/theatre of epic proportions. An extraordinary feat of physical intensity that borders on the operatic."
★★★
"We’re seeing the confusion and exhaustion of exile, voices drowned out, the disquiet of finding yourself, unwanted, in a new land."
★★★★★
"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.
"The voice is a physical organ that sits somewhere between mind and body; Van Huynh choreographs for both with such force that Petrolo’s performance is exhausting and uplifting at the same time (...)"