Born in Vietnam, Dominique Hardy settles in France at the age of eight. She regularly returns to Vietnam to feed her inspiration and create pieces influenced by Vietnamese culture.
Dominique Hardy is a comedian and an artist of the Franco-Vietnamese oral tradition, she created the Compagnie Archipel Indigo, a Franco-Asian cultural association.
Her work as a comedian is mainly focused in the field of theatre, movement and voice (with the Compagnie Les Clandestines, the Compagnie Les Anges au Plafond), of storytelling (with Anne List, Claudia Dulitchi, Géraldine Keller) and of performance (with musicians as Olivier Benoit, Jean-Christophe Kaufmann).
As Eurasian, Dominique Hardy is involved in cultural exchange projects between France and Vietnam since 1998, through, amongst others, her association Archipel Indigo. Her field of investigation and research focuses on the oral tradition of both countries. Stories, songs, popular rituals are the raw materials she collects and cultivates in order to present it to her audiences in the shape of shows : il y a tout un monde (2001)(there is a whole world out there), a theatrical performance about nostalgia with music and song ; Mémoires d’une buveuse de thé (2001) (Memoirs of a tea drinker), stories inspired by Asia ; Néo dung Kiêu, tender disembowelled flower (2003), an epic tale and songs inspired by the musical theatre of South Vietnam; Plus noir que l’encre (2005) (Darker than ink), a story related and illustrated with ink from the China seas. She also proposes an exhibition-meeting place Parcours parallèles (from 2007) (Parallel itineraries) where she illustrates the symbols of Vietnamese spiritual life through stories. This exhibition was inspired by a trip of the artist through the rural and mountainous regions of Central Vietnam in search of legends, customs and traditions deeply anchored within the Vietnamese.
She foresees to develop the subject in a new creation Souffle dans les racines du banian : she aims to reproduce the image of the banyan in the Vietnamese villages and streets, as this tree is the symbol of their spiritual homeland; the banyans are, according to her, the symbol of the particular and necessary relationship within the living and the immortals, ancestors and divine spirits.
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