Performing Arts

TÂN HẬU TRƯỜNG (NEW BACKSTAGE) is a theatre project initiated and curated by XplusX Studio, organized by the Goethe-Institut Hanoi and Manzi Art Space, that aims at fostering independent theatrical and performing art practices in Hanoi.
 

Approaching a piece of world literature.
Sophocles’ ANTIGONE makes audiences from all cultures reflect about human nature and our place in society. In Vietnam, ANTIGONE is reminiscent of the GIRL KIEU ‒ and yet quite different.

In appreciation of various translations and in reverence for the poet Nguyen Du, the Goethe-Institut focuses its attention on this literary work and raises the question of its contemporary interpretation and - closely related to it - the question of today’s role and image of women in Vietnam.

Short plays from a world transformed by a pandemic and digitalization.
A theatre project in collaboration with the Youth Theater Vietnam.

Heiner Goebbels spent two weeks in Hanoi to conduct a dance & music camp for Vietnamese artists. He had selected participants from a pool of applicants, emphasizing a balanced relationship between men and women as well as dancers and musicians, and assembling a promising mix of mutually inspiring and open-minded individuals.