"Kim" is a stage piece between dance, literature and film. The work is currently in progress and is scheduled for completion in autumn 2023. "Kim" is based on the novel "Wherever You Are" by the award-winning German-Vietnamese journalist and author Khuê Pham, who will be on stage herself.
A fantastic novel, captivating and moving. "Wo auch immer ihr seid" is a mirror of the present, told along the story of a family, shaped by war and flight, individual happiness and collective suffering, abundance and hunger, carelessness and heaviness, the open and the hidden, dreams and traumas.
The novel "Wo auch immer ihr seid" by Khuê Phạm follows the effects of the Vietnam War and the resulting dispersion of the family to several continents. On this basis, the book explores the lostness between cultures, the speechlessness about the past and the relativity of concepts such as good and evil.
Together with Khuê Phạm and five dancers and performers, all of whom have intercultural experience themselves, we follow these traces with "Kim" and link them with our own - and the audience's - traces.
The experience of otherness and the conflict with the parents' generation is not an exclusively post-migrant experience. However, history condenses in these particular stories - they tell of people, of love, home and war.
Team
Creation, Dance
Text
Direction, Choreography
Fang Yun LoVideo, Film direction, Stage camera
Stage design
Costume
Music
David Le ThaiAdditional Music
Patrik ZossoDramaturgy
Betty Yi-Chun ChenLighting design, Technical lead
Max RuxProduction management
Company management TW
Video production sound mixer
Alicia Luz RodríguezTranslation
Dr Lydia J. WhiteVu Phuong ThaoNguyen Xuan HangCharles HawleyDaryl LindseySurtitle
Jakob GerberSpecial Thanks
Andrés AguiloChristoph BovermannWillem van den HoekNgo Thanh PhuongNguyen Thi Minh ThuPhạm PhươngPhạm ThoạiWolfram SanderVu Thi Van AnhMomo WolterAnnette Ziller
Information
Production
Polymer DMTEssen, DECoproduced with
HELLERAU European Centre for the ArtsDresden, DEPACT ZollvereinEssen, DEProject funding
City of Essen (Office for Culture)Essen, DEArt Foundation NRWDüsseldorf, DEKulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen KdFSDresden, DESupported by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media within the program NEUSTART KULTURLanguages
German, VietnameseAvailable subtitles
English, VietnameseOriginal book
"Wo auch immer ihr seid" by Khuê Phạm © 2021 by btb Verlag, in the Penguin Random House publishing group.Duration
80 min.Age recommendation
12 +
Performances
Nov 18 2023
Khuê Phạm & Fang Yun Lo are readingBuchBaselBasel, CHSep 30 2023 - Oct 1 2023
HELLERAU European Centre for the ArtsDresden, DESep 29 2023
premiereHELLERAU European Centre for the ArtsDresden, DE