About the Artist

Anh Vo is a Vietnamese-American choreographer and writer based in Brooklyn and Hanoi. They create dances and texts about pornography and queer relations, about being and form, about identity and abstraction, about history and its colonial reality. They receive their degrees in Performance Studies from Brown University (BA) and New York University (MA). Vo is currently a 2023-2025 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow.

Included on the New York Times' 2022 list of Best Dance Performances, Vo's choreographies flesh out the sensuous sexual body as a vessel for apparitional forces. Their latest body of work tries to articulate the monotonous oppressiveness that is the weather of postwar contemporary Vietnam.

Foregrounding the unruliness of the body, Vo's work unravels intolerable feelings, wounds, memories, and pleasures. They are occupied with the task of making present the unrepresentable. How can difficult histories be collectively felt with direct emotional charge, subtle provocation, sacrilegious playfulness, and earnest responsibility? The intensity of war draws Vo into the survival space between life and death, where life is contingent and death is imminent. This intensity is heightened by their experience surviving chronic illness. Vo's work weaves together the erotic thrill of violence and the tenderness of care to push forth the burning desire to be alive.

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