Van Huynh Company

A gripping visual and sound experience reaching the most fragile and vulnerable corners of the human nature.

'The living need light and the dead need music' - Vietnamese proverb.

Dep is the Vietnamese word for beautiful. With his latest dance work, the UK based choreographer Dam Van Huynh explores influences from his South East Asian heritage. In Vietnamese culture, death is also a form of rebirth. When a person dies, the family and community enact rituals that will enable the deceased to pass into another realm, a higher state of being.

The work sees a shift in Van Huynh's movement language as it delves ever deeper into the true nature of the human condition. The dancers in Dep are nude for a purpose. Fragile and vulnerable, their nudity literally strips them bare. Disrobed, free of distraction, their movement begins at the point where the mind transcends the physical self. Amplified and tracked by Martyna Poznanska's numinous score, the movement in Dep depicts a ritualistic trance with no beginning and no end.

Suitable for ages 12 and over.
Contains full frontal nudity.