Nocturnal Path (2003)
Draws from the spiritual world of Southeast Asia, and based on images of archaeological reliefs and mural paintings from temples throughout the region.
6 dancers
45 minutes
Music: Michael Stearns, Lou Harrison, Dead Can Dance, Thich Nhat Hanh, Yungchen Lhamo, Philip Glass
Lamps: Lam Quang
Lighting: Bruce Keller
Nocturnal Path was commissioned by the White Bird/Tiffany & Co. New Works fund, and made possible by the Doris Duke Fund for Dance of the National Dance Project, a program administered by the New England Foundation for the Arts with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and Altria Group, Inc. Additional support provided by a Regional Artas & Culture Council Project Grant, Vessel, inc., and Portland Taiko's Community Performance Outreach Project.
The War Within - excerpt of The Road Home (1996)
"The Road Home" is an autobiographical dance journal of Tran's first return trip to Vietnam in 1994. This particular section recalls memories and experiences in South Vietnam under the communist regime from 1975-1980 and his escape to Thailand.
Duet
14 minutes
Text: Minh Tran
Original Score: Dale Svart & Paul Smailes
Lighting: Bruce Keller
The Road Home was originally presented by Portland State University's Portland International Performance Festival with additional support provided by the Regional Arts & Culture Council.
Forgotten Memories - work in progress (2005)
"Forgotten Memories" is an artistic response to Tran's recent trip to Cambodia. While there on exchange with Dance Theater Workshop’s Mekong Project, Tran visited S-21 or Tuol Sleng (“hill of the poison tree”), an abandoned suburban Phnom Penh high school and site of a Khmer Rouge interrogation center (1975-1979). Headed by Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge combined extremist ideology, ethnic animosity, and a disregard for human life to produce murder on a massive scale. Approximately 1.7 million people lost their lives (21% of the country’s population) under Pol Pot regime. Over 17,000 prisoners were interrogated, tortured, and executed inside the walls of S-21. The visit also reawakened memories of Tran's past escape from Vietnam as a refugee in 1980.
5 dancers
25 minutes
Original Score: Dariush Dolat-shahi
Visual Design: Christine Bourdette
Film: Ryan Jeffrey
Lighting: Bruce Keller
The developement of Forgotten is made possible with support from the Oregon Arts Commission, the Regional Arts & Culture Council, Geffen Mesher & Company, and McDonald Financial Group - a subsidiary of KeyBank
|
