Fang Yun Lo /
POLYMER DMT (D)
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Fang Yun Lo combines her family history in Taiwan with timeless questions: What is home? How do you create a home? How does a young generation with conflicts they inherited, and which their parents were unable to resolve? The Taiwanese performer and hip-hop dancer Chih Wen Chung moves through an abandoned family home – a ghost house, a dusty projection screen for images of protection, youth, family and conflicts, historical events, and unanswered questions. What happened here? Objects and photos turn into protagonists. A live camera probes into the tiniest of spaces. The video designer Hanna Linn Ernst creates a complex world full of time jumps and illusions, further condensed atmospherically through the music of Patrik Zosso.
Fang Yun Lo was born in Taiwan in 1982, studied dance in Taipeh as well as dance and choreography at the Folklwang-Hochschule in Essen. Since 2011, she has been creating dance pieces, video works, and interactive media installations in collaboration with artists from a broad variety of disciplines under the label Polymer DMT. As a performer she has worked with Stefan Kaegi/Rimini Protokoll, Robert Wilson, Ben J. Riepe und Cindy Hammer/go plastic company, among others. Fang Yun Lo is a Panorama Artist of the European Network [DNA] Departures and Arrivals as well as a member of the federations of local artists Tanznetz Dresden and IG Tanz Essen. In 2020, her production “Better Life?” was nominated for the Taishin Arts Award 2021.
Creation: Polymer DMT | Director: Fang Yun Lo | Performance: Chih Wen Chung, Yi-Jou Chuang , Kati Masami Menze (live camera) | Stage: Cheng Ting Chen | Video design (live act): Hanna Linn Ernst | Sound / Music (live act): Patrik Zosso | Lighting design / Technical lead: Max Rux | Video assistance: Anna Westphal | Dramaturgy: André Schallenberg | Production management: Sabina Stücker | Production management TW: Ya Ting Tsai
A production by Polymer DMT / Fang Yun Lo, in co-production with PACT Zollverein Essen* and the Taipei Arts Festival TAF 2018. Funded by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, the National Culture and Arts Foundation Taiwan NCAF, the Kunststiftung NRW and the City of Essen (Cultural Office). Supported by the NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETZ Guest Performance Fund for Dance, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, as well as the Ministries of Culture and the Arts of the federal states, and the Bamboo Curtain Studio, New Taipei.
Under the title "Tanz erfahrbar machen", various educational formats for school classes will take place in the context of the festival.
Selected school classes will receive tailor-made dance and movement workshops by dance artists from Fokus Tanz.
Information and inquiries: info@fokustanz.de
Direction: Annerose Schmidt, Daniela Holloch, Simone Lindner
With the kind support of the Stiftung Musik zum Leben unter dem Dach der Bürgerstiftung and the Kulturreferat der LH München.
location: Münchner Kammerspiele | Werkraum
Friday, 5th July | 11 am - with follow-up discussion with the artists
Saturday, 6th July | 7.30 pm
ca. 60 min. | 14+
