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See our plansAnh Vo is a Vietnamese choreographer, dancer, theorist, and activist. They create dances and produce texts about pornography and queer relations, about being and form, about identity and abstraction, about history and its colonial reality. Their critical writings focus on experimental practices and socio-economic relations in contemporary dance and pornography.
Our takeover of the 62nd issue of Movement Research Performance Journal is being released in tandem with We Exist in the Ambivalence of Those Motherfuckers, a program at Performance Space...
What is often considered the first performance art event in Vietnam, Văn Miếu Event (1997) by Nguyễn Văn Tiến and Trần Anh Quân, was staged in a public space, the...
Translator's Note: This paper, originally written in Vietnamese, uses a form often ascribed to official academic language around heritage. While the author has not specified it, one might assume that...
Two female singers. One rocked a shaved head. Her punk appearance contrasted with the other singer’s seductive femininity. Both were draped in black dresses. Wrapped in theatrical fog. Backed by...
In March 2023, I performed Matxa VIP at the Art Patronage & Development (APD) in Hanoi. It was the culmination of one and a half days of workshops on performance...
Anh Vo : There is a memory I want to share with you. The only time I've ever cried after a performance of mine was in Montreal. It was the...
In 2021, my body collapsed from a severe episode of Graves’ Disease, an autoimmune disorder that causes hyperthyroidism. I vividly remember the terror setting in one night when I could...
It is an impossible task trying to translate a dictionary of Vietnamese slangs and idioms around gender and sexuality, whose melodic playfulness and visceral imageries operate on a vastly different...
Anh Vo: Gender Without Identity is an amazing and dangerous book. As rich as it is, the relationship between gender, especially its minoritarian forms, and trauma can be easily weaponized....
Every client I take to bed makes a mother of me eventually teenage madonna and child with no clue how to care for grown men suckling at milkless breasts what...
Can the body remember? aims to be an open question and invites discussion about the impacts of propaganda images in the practice of contemporary performance artists in Vietnam. This question...
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