Anh Vo in BABYLIFT, Hollins University, 2018. Photo by Orfeas Skutelis.
Performance Studies alum Anh Vo (M.A. '19) will perform BABYLIFT at New York Live Arts.
In their solo piece BABYLIFT, Anh Vo conjures the forgotten ghosts of the Vietnam War through storytelling, ritual, and war photography. The 1975 “Operation Babylift” was responsible for the mass evacuation of South Vietnamese orphans to the Western world – the first plane crashed and killed 78 children. BABYLIFT is first a memorial to the unmourned and unremembered. Vo also speculates on the erotic of haunting, both terrifying and pleasurable.
Live Arts’ legacy Fresh Tracks performance and residency program continues its 55-year commitment to bringing new voices to the forefront. The program provides five emerging artists with a 50-hour studio residency, a professionally produced shared evening bill in the New York Live Arts Theater, commission fee, one-on-one dialogue sessions with the program’s Artistic Advisor, professional development workshops led by renowned professionals from the field and exclusive access to Live Arts’ Marketing, Production and Programming staff. Through Fresh Tracks, New York Live Arts provides an unparalleled opportunity for new artistic voices to gain professional development, experience and recognition.
WHEN: December 13-14 | 7.30pm
WHERE: New York Live Arts, 219 W 19th Street