ABSTRACT
In 1996, with the help of New WORLD Theater, and under the direction of Roberta Uno, I developed a solo performance exploring the psychic trauma of Vietnamese refugees. Drawn in part from my own experience as one among the millions of Vietnamese boat people who fled Vietnam in the aftermath of the American/Vietnam war, the bodies between us was not about catharsis or release. Its aim was to enter into the deeply disorienting experience of those who are in a state of abeyance, having departed the old world but not yet arrived in the new one. Or, having arrived, are constantly drawn back toward the world that they left behind, and the memory of the people and places that remain there.
