Polymer DMT is the label for cooperative dance and performance projects by the German-Taiwanese choreographer Fang Yun Lo.
Polymer DMT combines and integrates different art forms, and works with artists from different backgrounds.
Polymer DMT was established in 2011 and is based in Essen and Dresden (DE) and Taichung (TW).
Fang Yun Lo is associated with the service program iDAS NRW, and a member of the scene associations IG Tanz Essen (founding member) and Tanznetz Dresden. In the year 2020, Polymer DMT received a basic conceptual funding and from 2021-23 the top-level funding for dance (Spitzenförderung Tanz) from the german state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Polymer DMT combines and integrates different art forms, and works with artists from different backgrounds.
Polymer DMT was established in 2011 and is based in Essen and Dresden (DE) and Taichung (TW).
Fang Yun Lo is associated with the service program iDAS NRW, and a member of the scene associations IG Tanz Essen (founding member) and Tanznetz Dresden. In the year 2020, Polymer DMT received a basic conceptual funding and from 2021-23 the top-level funding for dance (Spitzenförderung Tanz) from the german state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
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"Our stage works are interdisciplinary, we oscillate between dance, performance, documentary theatre and media art. The form and team composition is determined individually for each project, but there are a number of long-lasting collaborations.
One basic element of our work is the examination of intercultural themes, which is also reflected in our co-operation between Taiwan and Germany. For me, my own cultural identity is very important, but not at all consistent. For me, identity is above all a process, a technique, an eternal movement and questioning. We all live with items and stories from all over the world, and more and more people will have mixed cultural roots, not only in Germany and Europe. I see this as a huge gift. In our work we try to use these cultural transfer techniques and transform them into our own aesthetics, as well as to actively involve the audience in this process. Our pieces are created on the basis of long research, and are shown internationally by our partners. The encounters that emerge in the course of research are just as important to us as the individual performances. In conversations and exchange forums we try to share our questions and concerns with other people, take up new ideas and become active together." Fang Yun Lo |
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The team and partners of Polymer DMT:
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Fang Yun Lo
Choreography / Director born 1982 in Taiwan, lives in Essen and Dresden as well as in Taichung, Taiwan. Fang Yun Lo has studied dance in Taipei as well as at the Folkwang University in Essen, Germany, where she also completed a postgraduate course in choreography (Master). Since 2008 she has been working as a freelance choreographer and performance artist. In 2011 she founded the label Polymer DMT as a cooperative production platform with several partners. She also works as a performer with various directors*, including Stefan Kaegi / Rimini Protokoll, Cindy Hammer / go plastic company, Lemi Ponifasio, Tino Sehgal, Robert Wilson, and Ben J. Riepe (also as assistant). Fang Yun Lo is Panorama Artist of the European network [DNA] Departures and Arrivals, associated with the dance service program iDAS NRW, and member of the local networks IG Tanz Essen and Tanznetz Dresden. In 2008 she won the 1st prize for choreography in the competition MASDANZA13 in Gran Canaria/Spain for her duet Two Point Four 2.4. |
Other collaborators
Thanh Phoung Ngo, Agnes Gunawan, Verena Brakonier, Chih Wen "Wind" Chung, Doris Dziersk, Hannah Georgi, Salim Ben Mammar, Katharina Pelosi, Max Rux, Julia Krause, Hanna Linn Wiegel, Ibrahima Biaye, Valerie Kommer, Alexandra Llorens, Ying Chi Chen, Tobias Rosenberger, Michael Hess, Philipe Burrell, Deborah Gassmann, Hyun-jin Kim , Mu Yi Kuo, I Fen Lin, Clark Stiefel, Felix Lisske, Remo Merz |
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Patrik Zosso
Musik Music Patrik Zosso studied Producing/Performance (M.A.) at the University of Music Basel/CH. Since then he has been working as a freelance producer, engineer and musician. In addition to album productions, he is intensively involved with the possibilities of electronic sound production and also composes for theatre, film and art. As a musician, especially as a drummer, he toured and performed successfully in Switzerland and worldwide with Trauffer, Marygold, Ingrid Lukas, Sissy Fox, Polymer DMT. Since 2016 he is a lecturer and study course coordinator Producing/Performancean at the FHNW/Hochschule Musik Basel. |
Funding institutions
City of Dresden - Office for Culture and Heritage Protection City of Essen - Cultural office Ministry for Culture and Science MKW of the State of NRW Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony KdFS NRW State Office for the Freelance Performing Arts Art Foundation NRW Fonds Darstellende Künste Berlin National Performance Network NPN Goethe-Institut Taipei/TW National Culture and Arts Foundation Taiwan NCAF/TW [DNA] Departures and Arrivals/EU |
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Sabina Stücker
Production management Sabina Stücker studied contemporary dance at ETAGE Berlin. Since 2001 she has been working as a freelance producer in Essen, offering management, production and networking in the field of contemporary dance. In 2006-2016 she initiated and was the artistic director of the festival 638 Kilo Tanz in Essen (festival for contemporary dance with a focus on regional young artists). In 2013 she founded the association Tanzgebiet e.V., and in 2017 IG Tanz Essen with several collaborators. Since 2017 she has also been a member of the board of directors of Carl Stipendium e.V. for the Maschinenhaus Essen. Collaborators: Ben J. Riepe, Reut Shemesh, Julio Iglesias Cesar, Ungo, Antje Velsinger, Polymer DMT / Fang Yun Lo, Henrietta Horn, Maschinenhaus Essen, PACT Zollverein, Institut für Zeitgenössischen Tanz Folkwang Universität der Künste, Folkwang Tanzstudio, tanzhaus nrw, tanz performance köln, Festival tanz nrw, Kulturbüro Essen and others. |
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TSAI Ya-Ting
Production and Company management TW |
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Béla Bisom / transmissions
Financial and subsidy management DE Béla has a degree in business administration and theatre studies. He lived in Burundi/Africa for three years and developed and implemented cultural projects for the DC organisation EIRENE. For more than ten years he has been active in the management of dance and theatre in Germany with his office transmissions. He has organised theatre and dance festivals such as the 100° Festival in Berlin or the GLOBALIZE:COLOGNE Festival in Cologne. As a manager, he worked with Constanza Macras/Dorky Park and MOUVOIR/Stephanie Thiersch, among others. Béla was also the commercial director of the FAVORITEN 2020 festival. |
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Stéphane Noël / Materialise
Booking, International Collaborations Stéphane Noël is an independent producer and curator of contemporary performing arts, and has also directed and curated two interdisciplinary art festivals in Switzerland. His practice led him to join the artistic and editorial board of Gaîté lyrique in Paris (2009–2011) and act as an advisor for European.Lab (2011–2016), the platform for cultural innovation in Lyon. Stéphane was also a statutory advisor for IETM, international network for contemporary performing arts (2012-2015). |
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