“NANO GIANTS” is a journey through a theatrical wonderland where we explore the value of community. It is about simple but fundamental questions of human life: are we small or big, in relation to what and whom? What can we do alone? What can we only do together? Do we move, or are we moved?

Six people from four countries – Germany, Taiwan, France, and Indonesia. They all have their own worlds in which they make music, draw, or dance, in which they work and dream, in which fish fly through the air, or things are very big or very small. These are beautiful worlds, magical and spacious. And everyone can do something that the others can't.

But the most exciting thing is exploring each other's worlds – because there is so much to discover and learn here. Together we can become even bigger and more colorful. No matter how small or insignificant a single person may be – together we are all giants.

Four dancers with different skills, from hip-hop to dance theater, from circus to parkour, share the stage with a musician and a illustrator conjuring up ever-new images directly on stage. “NANO GIANTS” is contemporary dance theater for audiences both young and old. “NANO GIANTS” playfully develops new ways to live and work together, and creates community utopias in all shapes and sizes together with the audience.

Biography

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Photo: Sabrina Weniger

Under the label Polymer DMT, Taiwanese director and choreographer Fang Yun Lo has been collaborating with artists from various disciplines since 2011. Polymer DMT is based in Essen and Dresden, Germany, as well as in Taichung, Taiwan. Since 2018, Fang Yun Lo and Polymer DMT have been working on a cycle of stage productions that explore identity(ies), home and migration, including “Home Away From Home” (2022) and “Kim” (2023).

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Cast & Credits

Dance, Co-CreationHsiao-Ting Lee, Baptiste Bersoux, Salim Ben Mammar, Chih Wen Chung
Direction, ChoreographyFang Yun Lo
IllustrationAgnes Gunawan
MusicMarie Schulze
Set DesignCristina Lelli
Lighting Design, Technical DirectionMax Rux
Video TechnologyBodo Gottschalk (STUDIO6)
Production ManagerSabina Stücker
ProductionPolymer DMT

Funding

A co-production by: Tanzpakt Dresden & PACT Zollverein. Under the auspices of the State Capital of Dresden, Office for Culture and the Preservation of Historical Monuments, the “TANZPAKT Dresden” brings together the Villa Wigman Association for Dance and HELLERAU – European Centre for the Arts. Funded by TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund using funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, the Saxon State Ministry of Science and the Arts and the City of Dresden. With thanks to the Volker Homann Foundation. This initiative is co-funded by tax revenue on the basis of the budget adopted by the Saxon State Parliament.

Funded by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, the National Performance Network (NPN) Co-production Fund for Dance, supported by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, the City of Dresden – Office for Culture and Monument Protection, and the Cultural Office of the City of Essen.