Kerman is launching the very first edition of an exceptional art and dance festival - Krossing Over Festival - invites the audience to an artistic journey throughout 03 districts of the city in 03 days. 07 chosen venues include art spaces, bookstore, café, for a unique experience merging dance with visual art, words, music and culinary art. 28 performances see a collaboration of perfomances from Vietnam and France altogether.
Each performance mixing dance and other arts will be performed at least 02 times in 02 different venues. The perfomances are using the space as a real partner to draw engagement of the audience to explore and to overcome the common frontal view of a show, then create a new kind a relationship with the public.
The final venue is Dancenter, with a unique set of 5 performances and the screening of 03 short films directed by choreographers.
One special note: One ticket is applicable to all performances at all showing schedule
ETHEREAL
Everything is misty, vaporous like a fume.
Based on a poem named "Đốt" by Ly Hoang Ly
Choreographer and dancer: Nguyen Man - Student at Vocational Ballet School of HCMC
REMEMBER
Nhung and Florian are going to perform dancing and live painting from a recorded memory of the dancer.
Choreographer and dancer: Nhung Hongvo
Visual artist: Florian Nguyen
MOTION STATMENT
The body in motion gives another perspective to both visual art and space.
Choreographer and dancer: Sébastien Ly, Visual artist Vo Tran Chau
DANCE READINGS
The audience choose the texts that are performed by dancers.
Choreograher: Sébastien Ly
Dancers: Lisa Robert, Le Thi Mai Anh
SAIGON POP-UP x KERMAN
When text meets culinary art
Chef Estelle Drigny, in collaboration with Sébastien Ly
HINDSITE 20/17
HindSite 20/17 is a site-specific performance that mimics the phenomenon of “Deja-vu”. Two dancers create iterations of movements that respond to the poetic texts of Mathieu Dufourg. The performance re-incarnates the following evening at Dancenter as something familiar, yet entirely different.
Choreographer: Sébastien Ly - Co-directed with Trong Gia Nguyen
Dancers: Nhung Hongvo and Lai Sao Mai
Writer: Mathieu Dufourg
LET GO
Bao Vung and John Huy are exploring the sensation of suspension.
Choreographer: John Huy
Dancers: UDG Dance Group
Visual artist: Bao Vung
INNER SMOKE
The film deals with the space left for renewal after one's disappearance, while questioning what remains from the past; what we can not see, like ashes that we are no longer paying attention to.
Choreographer and dancer: Kim-Sang Châu
Video artist: Ray Lavers
BEYOND THE ABSENCE FILM
Based on real testimonies, the film speaks about what remains alive inside of us after having visiting an exhibition.
Choreographer and dancer: Sébastien Ly
Video-artist: Anthony Magnoni
REVERSED SCENERY
A dialogue between photography, music and dance.
Choreography: Nhung Hongvo and Sébastien Ly
Visual artist: Ho Ho Lin
Composer: An Ton That
Dance: Le Thi Mai Anh, Nhung Hongvo and Lisa Robert
ORAISON
Oraison is based on movements from funeral dances. It is a prayer to those who left.
Choreography: Sébastien Ly
Dance: Chau, Dung, Quang, Vu, Uyen, Yen - Student at Vocational Ballet School of HCMC
BEYOND THE ABSENCE PERFORMANCE
During two hours, 5 dancers invite you to build your own show from various experiences to be discovered in different rooms of the Fine Arts Museum.
Choreography: Sébastien Ly
Dance: Lai Sao Mai, Le Thi Mai Anh, Sébastien Ly, Lisa Robert and Toan Trung
SILENT WORDS
Remembering the words through sensations
Choreography: Sébastien Ly
Poetry: Ly Hoang Ly
Dance: Lai Sao Mai, Lisa Robert and Toan Trung