A choreographic commission for The Place – London Contemporary Dance School. The work was created for 16 dance artist and premiered as part of an evening of work by renown international Choreographers.
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A choreographic commission for The Place – London Contemporary Dance School. The work was created for 16 dance artist and premiered as part of an evening of work by renown international Choreographers.
A creative development project supported by British Council/Arts Council England through the Artist International Development Fund (AIDF) giving Dam Van Huynh an invaluable opportunity to spend a month and a half in his birth country Vietnam - collaborating with Arabesque, engaging with local artists, learning traditional and contemporary ideas and collecting music samples as part of his heritage rediscovery process. This experience has triggered a pivotal shift in Van Huynh's movement language inviting him to delve ever deeper into the nature of the human condition.
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Duration: 20min
Premiered on the Saturday 20 October 2012 at The Place
Commissioned by Dance United
A work in collaboration with Dance United – a charity organisation which aims at positively changing lives of marginalised and hard-to-reach people through high-quality dance training and performance, for 4 male dancers premiered at The Place as part of an evenings of works under the theme of a Holding Space.
Choreography: Dam Van Huynh
Rehearsal Director: Haris Marathefti, Lyndsey Thomas with support from Rowena Evans and Veronica Monk
Costume: Becky Hayes, Frances Morris
Music: Jamie Hamilton
Lighting: Jonathan Samuels
Photography: Pari Naderi, taken at Siobhan Davies Studios in London
Performed by Academy Dance Ensemble Atakan Aydin, Moshood Ibrahim, Scott Miles, Ali Sheikh
Dance United
www.dance-united.com
Jamie Hamilton - Composer
www.jamiehamilton.net
This two year residency enabled Dam Van Huynh to explore his creative voice and movement language with full support by the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. It was in this residency where he was able to push the limits of his ideas on the diverse movement qualities and textures of the human body forming his unique movement language influenced by Western and Eastern ideas. During his residency, Van Huynh was able to work with dance students from HKAPA and deliver international tours to Busan International Festival – Korea, M1 Fringe Festival – Singapore and impulsed a collaborative project between HKAPA and Hong Kong based dance company Unlock Dancing Plaza.
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