Yellow Skin is a choreographic performance that reclaims and reimagines Asian stereotypes through karaoke, drag, and Vietnamese bingo culture. Created by artists from the Southeast Asian diaspora, the work explores how colonial histories, migration, and racism continue to shape our bodies and identities. Blending humor, play, music, and political critique, the performers inhabit caricatures rather than reject them, searching for the hidden life within these images. Through audience participation and a vibrant stage world, Yellow Skin transforms stereotypes into sites of resistance, community, and empowerment. The project asks how marginalized bodies can rewrite the stories imposed upon them — and create new ways of belonging.
Credits
Choreographer, performer
Tony Tran
Performers
Sun Phitthaya Phaefuang, Louise Paolo de Venecia Gile
Dramaturgy
Tang Fu Kuen
Co-production in Residency
O Espaço do Tempo
Tony Tran is a choreographer and artist based between Oslo and Geneva. His artistic works explore the diasporic experience of Southeast Asians in Europe, and the queer experience there. Tran's work has toured in Europe, the Eastern Mediterranean, East and Southeast Asia, as well as South America. He is also the founder of the Program Grands Crus – a foundation to support the creation and mobility of performing artists based in Vietnam.