upcoming
30th April, 7pm, Temperance Hall
Performance
Temperance Hall Front Studio Resident, Chung Nguyen, presents Fluid Memories, a work-in-progress that combines dance, video and installation. A new collaboration with visual artist James Nguyen, this work explores the reciprocal relationship between human bodies, environmental trauma and healing.
Free to attend. Registration is essential. Register here.
March - April 2025
Frontal Studio Residency at Temperance Hall.
More information here.
past events/activities
6 - 7 December 2024
Basically, everything is dancing
See short pieces from thirteen talented independent choreographers with practices spanning an array of dance forms and disciplines and from Melbourne, Adelaide and Sydney.
Works created by: Chung Nguyễn, Maggie Madfox, Daksha Ramesh Swaminathan, Carmen Yih, Dylan Goh/Arcai, Karlia Cook, Christopher Gurusamy*, Jonathan Sinatra, Victoria Hunt, Raina Peterson, Nadezda Simonovits (Naddie), Tanya Voges, Max Burgess. More info and book tickets here.
August - December 2024
Independent Choreographers Program (ICP) 2024
organized by Dance House Melbourne, in partnership with Insite Arts, and with the support of Creative Australia. Learn more about the program here.
reviews
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Interview with Chung Nguyen, by Julia Santoli, Spectra Situs
My aim is to learn to be conscious through practice, not only in my waking states but in my dream state. Read more
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Review of A Trip Of, at M1 Open Stage, Singapore, written by Ezekiel Oliveria, FineLines.
Nguyen Thanh Chung excites the audience from the outset, replacing his head with a green inflated balloon on the floor moving like a puppy. Read more
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Review of Is There, at M1 Off Stage, Singapore, written by Bernice Lee, Art Equator.
Jun and Chung open the evening by wordlessly inviting audience members to place and arrange stones in a corner. Getting involved shifts us out of passivity immediately. The zen state suggested by their behaviour, the stones, and later on, the music, invites me to allow their dance to wash over me – one performance event settling into its place amongst others, like the stones. Read more