Home Away From Home

Polymer DMT/Fang Yun Lo

Performance 2022/23

German premiere

Choreographer Fang Yun Lo and her colleagues – the Vietnamese choreographer Ngo Thanh Phuong and the Taiwanese set designer Cheng Ting Chen – interviewed over one hundred people with Vietnamese backgrounds in Germany and Taiwan as part of a two-year journalistic research project. In spontaneous encounters at work, in stores, and snack bars, they talked about their experiences as immigrants or as members of families caught between cultures.Home Away From Home weaves dozens of memories together into a touching, polyphonic journey through the vietnamese diasporic communities that are often invisible. Divided into small groups, the audience meets six performers at different stations throughout the theater who tell their own stories and those of their families – as artists, workers, YouTubers, and students. A complex mosaic of human relationships emerges from stories, pictures, films, and audio pieces.Home Away From Home tells the story of the global dimensions of labor migration and intercultural reality, and reports on disruptions and structural violence, while simultaneously exploring the overarching human categories of home, identity, and happiness. “Home away from home” is part 2 of a choreographic series on identity and plurality.

Duration: approx 2 h

Documentary theatre piece to Vietnamese immigration in Germany and Taiwan.
Language: German, English, Mandarin, Vietnamese
The show is recommended for Vietnamese-speaking audiences.
 
Dresden-based Taiwanese choreographer Fang Yun Lo and her team spent two years researching and meeting numerous people of Vietnamese descent – in Dresden, Germany and Taiwan. In spontaneous encounters at the workplace, in takeaways and shops, they talked about their experiences as immigrants or in families between the cultures.
HOME AWAY FROM HOME weaves a touching, polyphonic journey from these memories. Six performers tell their own stories – as artists, workers, Youtubers or students. A complex mosaic of human relationships emerges from biographies, images and films.
 
Rạp chiếu phim tài liệu về người Việt Nam nhập cư ở Đức và Đài Loan.
Ngôn Ngữ: Tiếng Đức, Tiếng Anh, Tiếng Trung, Tiếng Việt. 
Buổi diễn cũng dành cho những khán giả nói Tiếng Việt.
 
Biên đạo múa Fang Yun Lo, người Đài Loan sống tại Dresden, cùng với nhóm sáng tác của mình, cô đã gặp gỡ rất nhiều người gốc Việt trong hai năm nghiên cứu – tại Dresden, Đức và Đài Loan. Trong những cuộc gặp gỡ ngẫu nhiên tại nơi làm việc, trong các bữa ăn nhẹ và tại các cửa hàng, họ đã kể về những trải nghiệm khi là người nhập cư, bên trong các gia đình giữa các nền văn hóa.
HOME AWAY FROM HOME dệt nên một hành trình cảm động, đa âm sắc xuyên suốt vở diễn xuất phát từ những dòng chảy ký ức này. Sáu diễn viên kể câu chuyện của chính họ – là nghệ sĩ, công nhân, youtuber, hoặc sinh viên. Một bức tranh ghép một cách phức tạp về các mối quan hệ của con người được tạo ra từ tiểu sử, hình ảnh và phim.

Performers: Vũ Phương Thảo, Võ Thị Hồng Cẩm Thuý, Phạm Minh Đức, Nguyễn Thu Hằng, Phan Mỹ Nương, Bùi Văn Quý 

Direction Fang Yun Lo Artistic collaboration Ngô Thanh Phương Stage design Cheng-Ting Chen Music, Sound design Patrik Zosso, Daniel Somaroo Acuña Video, Editing, Camera, Film direction Andrés Hilarión Madariaga Light design, Technical lead Max Rux Project assistance Vũ Mạnh Đức Video support René Liebert (STUDIO6) Stage camera Andrés Aguilo Production management Sabina Stücker, Ya-Ting Tsai 

Coproduced with Cloud Gate Theater New Taipei City [TW]; HELLERAU European Center for the Arts, Dresden [DE]; PACT Zollverein Essen [DE] 

Research partner Vietnamese Migrant Workers and Immigrants Office, Taoyuan [TW]; DOMiD Documentation Center and Museum of Migration in Germany, Cologne [DE]; TU-Dresden – Center for Integration Studies, Dresden[DE] 

Research funding Goethe-Institut Taipeh [TW]; Ministry of Culture and Science of North Rhine-Westphalia, Düsseldorf [DE]; North Rhine-Westphalia State Office for the Independent Performing Arts, Dortmund [DE] 

Languages Vietnamese, Taiwanese Mandarin, German Available subtitles Vietnamese, Mandarin Chinese, German, English 

 

In the framework of “Stay curious. City of Culture Dresden 2022” 
Supported by the City of Dresden and the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony. This measure is co-financed by tax funds on the basis of the budget passed by the Saxon State Parliament.
The guest performance is supported by the Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media within the framework of NEUSTART KULTUR”, and the logo of the revival funding.

Dresden Kulturstadt