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27.06.2022
AM/FM Therapy
A work-in-progress as part of Grey Space Residency organised by Cont-act Contemporary Dance Festival, with a development residency ARTEFACT#5 supported by Dance Nucleus (Singapore).
Concept & performance by Chung Nguyen (Vietnam), Pakhamon Much Hemachandra (Thailand), and Annamaria Ajmone (Italy). Sound/Music by Julia Santoli (USA). Curated by Anthea Seah (Singapore/USA).
22.10.2021
Bardo (video work); Chung Nguyen in collaboration with sound artist Julia Santoli
at Live Dreams: Transcend, curated by Choy Ka Fai, Performance Space (Sydney, Australia) - Online.
Artist-in-residence
17.06 - 27.06.2022
Grey Space (a-3 year project, 2021-2023), initiated by Cont-act Contemporary Dance Festival, with a development residency ARTEFACT#5 supported by Dance Nucleus (Singapore).
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Interview with Chung Nguyen, by Julia Santoli, Spectra Situs
My aim is to learn to be conscious through practice, not only in my waking states but in my dream state. Read more
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Review of A Trip Of, at M1 Open Stage, Singapore, written by Ezekiel Oliveria, FineLines.
Nguyen Thanh Chung excites the audience from the outset, replacing his head with a green inflated balloon on the floor moving like a puppy. Read more
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Review of Is There, at M1 Off Stage, Singapore, written by Bernice Lee, Art Equator.
6 & 7 December, 2024
Basically, everything is dancing
See short pieces from thirteen talented independent choreographers with practices spanning an array of dance forms and disciplines and from Melbourne, Adelaide and Sydney.
Works created by: Chung Nguyễn, Maggie Madfox, Daksha Ramesh Swaminathan, Carmen Yih, Dylan Goh/Arcai, Karlia Cook, Christopher Gurusamy*, Jonathan Sinatra, Victoria Hunt, Raina Peterson, Nadezda Simonovits (Naddie), Tanya Voges, Max Burgess. More info and book tickets here.
August - December 2024:
Independent Choreographers Program (ICP) 2024
organized by Dance House Melbourne, in partnership with Insite Arts, and with the support of Creative Australia. Learn more about the program here.
Jun and Chung open the evening by wordlessly inviting audience members to place and arrange stones in a corner. Getting involved shifts us out of passivity immediately. The zen state suggested by their behaviour, the stones, and later on, the music, invites me to allow their dance to wash over me – one performance event settling into its place amongst others, like the stones. Read more