In 1985, Grace Tjang co-founded Needcompany under the name Grace Ellen Barkey; since 2021, she has used the name Grace Tjang, after her mother. Traumatic experiences lie buried in her parents' past, and the choreographer and artist is unearthing them. She knows little; her parents remained silent.
Not knowing, browsing, and sensing transform into rich stagecraft in The Garden of Earthly Disquiet: There is live music featuring percussion and electronics, text, paper sculptures, projections, and dance. And there is family: Romy Louise Lauwers— Tjang’s own daughter—sits at an overhead projector as a silent narrator during the ImPulsTanz premiere at Vienna’s Akademietheater, sliding transparencies bearing words and sentences onto the glass. Brief words introduce the piece, followed by the ...
