DIRECTOR PROFILE:
Toan Thanh Doan
Đoàn Thanh Toàn is a choreographer and movement artist based in Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam. Toan was trained in Contemporary Indian dance technique Yorchha™ with Ananya Dance Theater and African-based movement with Brown Spirit Ensemble. After years of performing with the companies, the artist started experimenting with different modes of performance-making at Vietnamese art spaces including MoT+++, San Art, A. Farm, Time Between, and the Goethe Institut, making solos as well as collaborative works with other sound, performance, and visual artists. His most recent project, the dance film Buoyant (2023) is Toan’s directorial debut.
