Foto: Fang Yun Lo
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Home Away from Home
Documentary Theatre "Home Away from Home" is a long-term artistic project that is currently being shown in four different versions:
- a larger stage version with six performers from Germany and Taiwan as the main version, - a smaller stage version with its own title "Better Life?" with four performers (Taiwan only), - a short film (34 min.) followed by an online discussion, and - a photo exhibition with selected pictures from the research talks. The four versions can be shown independently or in combination. They are all based on the same research process, which lasted over two years, in which the Taiwanese choreographer Fang Yun Lo and her team met over 100 people of Vietnamese descent in Germany and Taiwan. In spontaneous encounters at the workplace, in shops, snack bars and shops, they talked about experiences as immigrants or in a family between cultures. "Home away from home" weaves a touching, polyphonic journey out of all these memories. Divided into small groups, the audience meets the performers at various stations in the theatre who tell their own stories and those of their families - as artists, workers, Youtubers or students. A complex mosaic of human relationships emerges from stories, pictures, films and audio pieces. "Home away from home" tells of the global dimension of labour migration and intercultural reality, reports on disruption and structural violence, but at the same time also explores overarching human categories of home, identity and happiness. "Home away from home" is part 2 of a choreographic series on identity and plurality. Team "Home Away from Home":
Creation: Polymer DMT Team Performers: Vũ Phương Thảo, Võ Thị Hồng Cẩm Thuý, Phạm Minh Đức, Nguyễn Thu Hằng, Phan Mỹ Nương, Bùi Văn Quý Artistic director: Fang Yun Lo Artistic collaboration: Ngô Thanh Phương Stage: Cheng Ting Chen Music/Sound: Patrik Zosso, Daniel Somaroo Acuña Video, editing/cinematography/film direction: Andrés Hilarión Madariaga Lighting design/technical director: Max Rux Assistance: Vũ Mạnh Đức Video Support: René Liebert | STUDIO6 Stage camera: Andrés Aguilo Production Manager DE: Sabina Stücker Production Manager TW: Ya Ting Tsai Team "Better Life?" (Taiwan): Performers: Nguyễn Thu Hằng, Nguyễn Hồng Dung, Phạm Mỹ Hạnh, Teng Kuei Shuang, Nguyễn Ngọc Anh. Artistic director: Fang Yun Lo Artistic collaboration: Ngô Thanh Phương Stage / lighting design / technical direction: Cheng Ting Chen Music/Sound: André Schallenberg Production Manager: Ya Ting Tsai Stage manager: Chiao Yu Chen Video technology: Hung Hsien Yu Sound engineering: Wei Chi Chen Technical realisation: Wan Yu Lo, Zhi Yun Yu Marketing: Bunny Hu, Ya Chun Chang Graphic design: Ya Zhen Xiao Premieres:
Better Life? - 15 August 2020, Iron Rose Art Festival, Taoyuan/TW Home Away from Home - photo exhibition: 10 September 2020, as part of the exhibition "Arbeit am Apparat", FAVORITEN 2020, Dortmund/DE Home Away from Home - film version (online premiere): 26 February 2021, HELLERAU Dresden, PACT Zollverein Essen Home Away from Home (stage premiere): 7 May 2021, Cloud Gate Theatre, New Taipei City Credits:
Home Away from Home: a production by Polymer DMT / Fang Yun Lo 2021, co-produced by Cloud Gate Theater Taipei/TW, HELLERAU Dresden/DE, PACT Zollverein Essen/DE, funded by the Ministry of Culture and Science of North Rhine-Westphalia (concept funding), Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen KdFS (this measure is co-financed by tax funds on the basis of the budget passed by the Saxon state parliament), National Cultural and Arts Foundation Taiwan NCAF, Performing Arts Fund funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, Kunststiftung NRW, Goethe Institut Taipei/TW, City of Dresden (Office for Culture and Monument Protection), City of Essen (Cultural Office). Better Life?: a production of 聚合舞Polymer DMT Taiwan 2020, in co-production with Iron Rose Festival Taoyuan/TW, supported by Goethe Institut Taipei Partner Research: Vietnamese Migrant Workers and Immigrants Office Taoyuan/TW, DOMiD Documentation Centre and Museum on Migration in Germany e.V. Cologne/DE, TU Dresden/Centre for Integration Studies (Rico Großer) Research funding: Goethe Institute Taipei/TW, Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, NRW State Office for the Independent Performing Arts |
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Goethe Institut Taipei
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