VIDEO – Drought and Rain (re-creation 2011)

Drought and Rain (re-creation 2011) – Edinburgh International Festival 2011

From ‘The Guardian’:

The piece, called Drought and Rain, is the creation of the Vietnamese-French director, choreographer and performance artist Ea Sola.

As a rare example of a Vietnamese theatremaker with an international profile, Sola has been invited to present Drought and Rain at the Naples theatre festival, after which it will be seen in Edinburgh and London’s Sadler’s Wells. Yet she didn’t became an artist in order to supply product for the international festival circuit – indeed she hesitates to call herself an artist at all: “I’m not an intellectual,” she says. “I come from the forest; I only spent three months in school.” Read the Article