Dancers from the Sasha Waltz & Guests Company will be performing Travelogue – Twenty to Eight at the Hanoi Opera House on October 2. 

The contemporary musical tells the story of a group of five people of different nationalities who live in a tenement and share one kitchen. The kitchen acts as a mirror in which rituals, habits and behaviour partterns are reflected.

Through these reflections a web of relaltionships is woven. The characters run around, neurotic and obsessive in their actions, lonely and lost, unable to find a way out – prisoners of their own social structures.

The contemporary dance was choreographed by Sasha Waltz and premiered in 1993. She co-founded the company, Sasha Waltz & Guests with Jochen Sandig in 1993 and has received numerous grants and awards, including the 1994 Groningen prize and the Berliner Zeitung critics’ prize for Travellogue – Twenty to Eight. In September 1999, Waltz was named as one of the artistic directors of Berlin ’s Schaubhne am Lehniner Platz.

The troupe of six dancers – Davide Camplani, Edivaldo Ernesto, Mama jeang Kim, Yael Schell and Florencia Lamarca – arrived in Hanoi on September 28.