'129BPM: The Cocoon Separation Movement' - a unique hip hop performance

On the evening of December 6, the contemporary hip hop performance by director and choreographer Bui Ngoc Quan - '129BPM: Dong phach tac coon' (produced by H2Q Dance Company) premiered at the Southern Military Theater (HCMC).

The work 129BPM: Dong phach tac coon - an experimental hip hop performance on stage - is a unique idea of ​​director and choreographer Bui Ngoc Quan. The performance lasts 70 minutes, with 8 artists, they continuously move to the orchestral harmony on a stage designed like a giant cocoon.

Dancers move continuously on stage for 70 minutes.

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The music is one of the unique elements of the work when combining electronic music with traditional Vietnamese elements.

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129BPM: The Cocoon Separation Movement is experimental in both performance form and creative concept. The play invites the audience to participate in a multi-sensory performance, especially in the audio and visual elements. The artists constantly move and "break" the stage layout by grouping or separating to create visual shapes, opening up many associations.

The name of the work combines four main elements that are developed throughout: "dong" with the meaning of movement - the artists move constantly; "phach" suggests the soul or rhythm in music/movement; "tac" suggests separation from a whole and "ken" is the withdrawal, shrinking or it is also the shell of a person.

The artists continuously create different shapes that "break" the fixed stage layout, in which the auxiliary sound and lighting help to heighten emotions during the enjoyment process.

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The musical part of the play was taken care of by the musician duo Tiny Giant and drummer Dan Duong.

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Lighting design - stage like a giant cocoon

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Many foreigners and children went to see the show.

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Bui Viet Quan's works suggest contemplation of the diversity and uniqueness between the general and the particular, the friction between individuals that can lead to conflicts, and at the same time evoke the coexistence between those frictions.

Throughout the 70-minute performance, the dancers move continuously, creating all kinds of postures such as standing, sitting, lying, gliding, flying, jumping, rolling, twisting, compressing, releasing until exhaustion. And this is also the way the choreographer wants to convey the idea of ​​human limitations in finding answers to the most private things.

129BPM: Dong phach tac ken is the first independent performance by Bui Viet Quan after more than 20 years of working in Belgium. This work combines Vietnam and international music by the duo Tiny Giant and drummer Dan Duong, and stage and lighting design by German artist Duc Mara Madeleine Pieler, thus bringing a unique experience of hip hop performance. In addition to the performance on December 6, tonight, the play 129BPM: Dong phach tac ken will perform its next performance at 8:00 p.m. on December 7.

Source: https://thanhnien.vn/129bpm-dong-phach-tach-ken-mot-trinh-dien-hip-hop-doc-dao-185241207093324563.htm