Endless Dimensions

Concept, Music & Production: Nguyen Quoc Hoang Anh

Category: Experimental Theatre - Site Specific

Duration: 50 mins

People always say nice things when they are in love or near death, about stoicism and martyrs. And humans also possess the ability to skillfully use memories to go against the flow of time and use sound/music to recall memories. Thus people can freely go back and forth in the timeline that they have never/haven passed.

Dimension of Endless develop typical elements of Tuong art such as conventional techniques, music, choreography and acting in an atmosphere; not only reverse the simulation of historical memory with contemporary art, but also create a dialogue while balancing visual, traditional art, experimental sound/music and movement components of krumping was developed from Tuong choreography.

The conventionality of artistic thinking has created an open space for artists of Vietnamese folk & traditional music to creatively concretize, each time different depending on inspiration. Intuition helped them probe each moment to find concrete answers to artistic solutions. With the harmony between traditional music and contemporary music; Contemporary music becomes a bridge connecting the two cultural regions of East - West and New - Old.

The vivid concrete moment that seemed to have been dissolved in the conventional, symbolic, eternal solvent, joined the artist to come present, overwhelm, multiply, full of unique and refined individuality. economic. In Dimension of Endless, convention is not an artistic technique but becomes a form of language, a normative state of existence between art and life. With static and dynamic conventional language representing forms of unconditional existence in order to create a new reality, affecting the emotions, aesthetics and intellect of the viewer.

Interpreting and continuously reflecting on interpretations of the historical values of indigenous culture also seems to be an important question of contemporary art and it is essential to each individual. Silence - sound - experimental music; became part of the artistic experience and the public activated all the senses.

Rather than offering only imaginary escapes for a temporary escape from the real world, the play is also a critical reflection on society, morality, and the existential situation. Dimension of Endless bring it all closer and it all happens in one space, the past and the yet to come to be reduced to the now; Past and future are both visible in the present moment. The characters become space magicians, they do the work of concretizing space in the flow of time.