Writer/choreographer Anh Vo brings Ca Trú musicians and contemporary string instrumentalists together for an experimental dialogue with Ca Trú, a rare form of Vietnamese chamber music that faced state persecution after the 1945 revolution due to its historical entanglement with prostitution and opium smoking.

This collaboration reanimates the disavowed sexual and social histories of Ca Trú, situating the body as a site of memory and transmission. Through structured improvisation, the artists intertwine the sonic vocabularies of Ca Trú, Western contemporary string music, and experimental dance, allowing divergent traditions to resonate, collide, and transform one another.

Anh Vo dance, vocals
Jessica Pavone viola
gabby fluke-mogul violin
Marija Kovačević violin
Barley Norton dramaturgy
Ca Trú musicians

“Risky, erotic, enigmatic, and boldly humorous.” – The New York Times

“Anh is hardcore, sweet, and deeply perceptive. This is reflected in the way they dance, with a kind of relentless yet gentle rigor and an unyielding sense of humor.” – BOMB Magazine

A livestream will be available free of charge at 8pm on the day of the performance and archived for future viewing.

Based in Brooklyn and Hanoi, Anh Vo is a Vietnamese choreographer and writer working in the expanded field of performance. Their practice mobilizes the naked body in its variations to make explicit the entanglement of power and apparitional forces that cut across flesh. Their work is situated in the unlikely lineage convergences between downtown New York experimental performance, Hanoi performance art, and Vietnamese folk ritual practices. Vo is indebted to Miguel Gutierrez’s unapologetic queerness and amorphous excess, Moriah Evan’s speculative commitment to the depth of interiority, Tehching Hsieh’s existential sense of time, and Ngoc Dai’s guttural sonic landscape of postwar Vietnam. Their formal training is in Performance Studies, studying with esteemed theorists and practitioners at Brown University (BA) and New York University (MA).