Kim
NEWS "Kim" Asian Premier in TAIWAN
Polymer DMT - Kim
- 2024 Nov. 09 (Sat.), Nov. 10 (Sun.) Tainan Arts Festival
- 2024 Nov. 16 (Sat.), Nov. 10 (Sun.) Taoyuan Iron Rose Festival
NEWS “My future land” Premiere
As part of the Season Celebration for the Day of Open Monuments, we are celebrating the premiere of the theatrical action "My Future Land" on September 8th in HELLERAU, Dresden. You can find us at 11, 12, 1 and 2 PM in Kulturgarten, and we warmly invite you to join us in shaping visions of the future.
NEWS “Unsolved” in Munich
“Unsolved” will be shown at the THINK BIG! Festival.
July 5th at 11 AM and July 6th at 7:30 PM in the Werkraum of Münchener Kammerspiele.
We are looking forward to our audience, the festival and the exchange.
NEWS space | lab connects
Come to Essen City.Nord on June 22, 2024, and check out the projects by Rebecca de Toro & Gregor Leiprecht, Polymer DMT/ Fang Yun Lo, Baptiste Bersoux, Ching-Mei Huang, and Camila Scholtbach Sánchez & Emelyn Yábar Tito. "space | lab connects" is a project within the Kreativ.Quartiere Ruhr program, funded by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and implemented by ecce – european centre for creative economy GmbH. "space | lab" is funded by the Cultural Office of Essen.
NEWS conceptual funding
We are delighted to receive a three-year conceptual funding from Fonds Darstellende Künste, congratulations to the other recipients. With the help of this funding, we will focus on the approach to memory work, subjective stories, and their reflection and mirroring in theater.
NEWS CAPAS 2024
Khuê Pham and Fang Yun Lo are guests at CAPAS 2024 in Göttingen. 30.05.2024, 16 – 18 h they will be reading and talking about “The Making of Kim” at Literarisches Zentrum Göttingen. "The Making of KIM" – Artist talk with Khuê Pham and Fang Yun Lo, as part of the Festival for Contemporary Asian Performing Arts and Performance Art (CAPAS2024 Göttingen). The artist talk is presented jointly by the German Association for Asian Art and the Literary Center Göttingen.
NEWS SPITZENFÖRDERUNG TANZ
Polymer DMT once again receives Spitzenförderung Tanz from the Ministry of Culture and Science of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, along with seven other companies.We congratulate all colleagues and look forward to realizing our artistic projects in the next three years.
NEWS BUCH.BASEL
Khuê Pham and Fang Yun Lo are guests at the BuchBasel after collaborating on "Kim." They will discuss, among other things, how the novel "Wo auch immer ihr seid" was staged as a performance with six German-Asian performers, using film sequences as reference. November 18, 2023, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM at Jazzcampus.
NEWS “Home away from home – Munich”
The installation will be on display in Munich as part of the thematic series "when memories meet" during the Spielart Theater Festival on October 20, 21, and 22.
NEWS Premiere "Kim"
29.9.2023 | 8 p.m. HELLERAU Dresden.
Together with the author and journalist Khuê Phạm and five dancers, we follow "Kim" (from Phạm's novel "Wherever You Are") and the traces the Vietnam War left in her life and link them with our own - and the audience's lives.
Further performances: 30.9.2023, 8 p.m. | 01.10.2023, 6 p.m.
NEWS Kunstfest Weimar
The installation “Home away from home – Weimar” will be shown at Kunstfest Weimar on the occasion of the awarding of the Goethe medal to curator Yi-Wei Keng from Taiwan. SAT 26th of august Installation 6 - 9 pm (Performanace 6 and 8 pm) | SUN 27th of august Installation 10 am – 7 pm (Performance 6 pm) | MON 28th of august Installation 10 am – 3 p
NEWS INTHEGA Theatermarkt
For the first time we are represented at the INTHEGA Theatermarkt. The Theatermarkt will take place on 12th and 13th of June in Stadthalle Bielefeld.
NEWS "Unsolved" at tanzmainz festival #4
we are invited to tanzmainz festival #4 for a performance of our piece "Unsolved". The performance will take place on March 8, 2023 at 9 pm. Additionally, there will be a rehearsal pre-showing of "Unsolved” in Villa Wigman in Dresden on March 4.
NEWS "Luceo" in Festspielhaus St. Pölten
On Sunday, 18th of December, we show the piece "Luceo" at 4 pm in Festspielhaus St. Pölten. In "Luceo" everything revolves around a magical light that sends four dancers on an adventurous journey of discovery. With her first piece for young audiences, choreographer Fang Yun Lo creates an imaginative journey through the world of associations. Ages 4 and up.
NEWS German premiere of "Home away from home"
The German premiere of "Home away from home" will take place on 14.10.2022 at 8 pm in Hellerau, Dresden. The piece weaves a touching, multi-voiced journey through the often invisible Vietnamese diasporic community from dozens of memories. Additional performances will take place on 15.10.2022 at 4 pm and 8 pm.
NEWS space | lab is running from 29.-31.7.2022
Our first festival called "space | lab is running" will take place at the end of july. We invite you to see movies, performances, installations, enjoy music and food. For more information about the program visit the space | lab page. Funding through the program "Kreativ.Quartiere Ruhr" is provided by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (MKW NRW) and is implemented by ecce GmbH - european centre for creative economy.
NEWS we are part of “Folkwang and the city”
ASIA RESTAURANT is a space installation with video and sound recordings in an abandoned asian restaurant in Essen’s city centre. It is based on the piece “Home away from home” and is part of the exhibition "Folkwang and the City" as part of the 100th anniversary of the Museum Folkwang in Essen 2022.
21.5.-7.8.2022, Tue-Sun 12-20 h, former restaurant “Mayflower”, Weberplatz 3
NEWS our residents in space | lab in 2022
With the funding of the RECONNECT programme we welcome the following artists as residents to space | lab in 2022: Foteini Papadopoulou, Hsiao-Ting Lee, Marco Girardin, Bianca Sere Pulungan, Kati Menze, Josie Kalies and Marlene Helling.
Supported by DIEHL+RITTER/TANZPAKT RECONNECT, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of the NEUSTART KULTUR initiative. Funding programme dance.
NEWS Home away from home - cinema premiere now online
Due to the ongoing COV19 pandemic, we unfortunately have to move the cinema premiere of our film Home away from home to the digital space. The presentation will take place on Nov, 26, 2021 as part of the festival "Unlearn Racism" in Dresden, presented by the Council for Migration Germany. Following the online presentation, there will be a Zoom talk with Pham Minh Duc, Andrés Hilarion and Fang Yun Lo at 7:30 pm. The discussion will be moderated by Lizza May David from the association korientation e.V. Berlin.
NEWS Tanzpakt RECONNECT 2021/22
The space | lab Essen, our working and research space in Essen, will continue to receive funding from the RECONNECT programme in 2022 - we are excited about this together with our partners, all the artists of IG Tanz Essen and the producer Sabina Stücker. Thank you very much! Further information at space | lab Essen!
Supported by DIEHL+RITTER/TANZPAKT RECONNECT, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of the NEUSTART KULTUR initiative. Funding programme dance.
NEWS Nano Giants Premiere
NANO GIANTS is a journey through a theatrical wonderland where we explore the value of community. It is about simple but fundamental questions of human life: Are we small or big, in relation to what and whom? What can we do alone, what only together? Do we move or are we moved?
On 1 October our new production for young audiences will start at a historic location: Mary Wigman's rehearsal hall in Dresden! Realised in cooperation with Tanzpakt Dresden / HELLERAU and PACT Zollverein Essen.
NEWS space | lab encounters are starting!
On 22 March 2021 our lecture and workshop series space | lab encounters will start! Our first guests are Cindy Hammer and Magdalena Weniger from TanzNetzDresden e.V., with whom we will talk about self-organisation of artists and lobbying for the independent scene in both cities together with colleagues from IG Tanz Essen. Registration at spacelab@polymerdmt.com
NEWS Top-level funding for dance by NRW 2021-2023
Polymer DMT / Fang Yun Lo has been selected by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of NRW as one of a total of eight ensembles for the Dance Funding 2021-2023. We are very proud of this award. We see this as a political sign that with our work between choreography, transcultural work and documentary encounters with people of the most diverse origins, we fulfil an important cultural function for Essen, the Ruhr region and North Rhine-Westphalia.