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Alvin Tran
Three Petals, 2022
Video, color, sound; 5:05 min
The newly commissioned work by Alvin Tran, made in collaboration with writer Wendy Xu and singer Katie, is titled “Three Petals” (2022). Based on a poem written by Xu, and the song ‘Future Love’ by K-pop star Katie, Tran created a choreography recorded for video. Schooled and working across multiple continents, Tran began his training in ballet, and positions dance history in relation to Kpop imagery. Within his choreographic work, he brings into conversation orientalist and western dance repertoire, while injecting Kpop motifs and gestures. The result is a new form of hybrid performance that employs modes of scoring in music and dance found throughout the world that disconnects the viewer from a specific style in favor of something more amorphous or difficult to contain.
Alvin Tran (b. 1995) is a choreographer and artist based in Seoul. His recent collaborations as a choreographer include the K-Pop band BTS, visual artist Diane Severin Nguyen and the Vietnam National Opera & Ballet. He had exhibitions and performances at Macau Dance Festival 2021, Art Night London 2019, Inner Mongolian National Troupe of Song and Dance 2018, Self-Criticism curated by Carol Yinghua Lu and Su Wei, and Shanghai Projects 2017 curated by Yongwoo Lee and Hans Ulrich Obrist.
