
KROSSING OVER ARTS FESTIVAL
Krossing Over Arts Festival (KOAF) is a platform for Vietnamese artists to explore international collaborations. Since its first edition in 2017, the crossroad is the core of the festival. Crossroad of practices: transdisciplinarity is key. Dance is in dialogue with visual arts, music, poetry, cinema, and the culinary arts. Crossroad of cultures: local and international artists collaborate. Diversity of aesthetics: traditional and contemporary cultures come together, as long as aesthetic forms with contemporary dance, hip-hop dance, and traditional dance. Diversity of venues: shows are seen on stage in theaters, but also in museums, art galleries, libraries, concept stores, and schools. Diversity of the curation: the event includes performances, workshops for amateurs and professionals, talks, and screenings of dance short films.
KERMAN x SAIGON THEATRELAND
ABOUT KERMAN:
Kerman founded by Sébastien Ly produces the projects of the choreographer: on-stage performances, site-specific experiences, short films, always with a dialogue between dance and various arts (literature, visual arts, photography, video, music). Led by Sébastien Ly, KOAF is the extension of these crossings on a map of the city, with its inhabitants and the artists who work there. Kerman is the name of a city in Iran precisely halfway between Hue, Vietnam and Saint-Aygulf, France.
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ABOUT SAIGON THEATRELAND:
Saigon Theatreland, born in 2020, cultivates art through media, education, and organization of performing arts events. Not only limited to performing practices, we aim to expand the impact of theatre through creating discourses about small, often overlooked communities and unlocking the dormant potential within each individual through the transformative power of art. Believing that collaboration and nurturing are keys in this era of relentless tide of change, Saigon Theatreland welcomes connections with organizations and artists, from established figures to those on a journey of self-reinvention.
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