Simone Truong is a Swiss-Chinese-Vietnamese choreographer, curator and performer and was born in 1983 in Solothurn, Switzerland. Since her Bachelor in choreography from the ArtEZ HKA in Arnhem Simone Truong is based in Zurich, where her work is regularly co-produced by the Gessnerallee. Her pieces have been showed in several festivals within and outside of Switzerland. Between 2008 and 2010 she worked together with her sister Monika Truong and Elaine Ho on the longterm-project «Overseas», which has been developed together with Chinese artists and shown in Beijing and Zurich. Between 2012 and 2014 Truong worked on question-remake-series consisting out of two performance and one book. The piece «(To) Come and See», a collaboration with the four choreographers Eilit Marom, Anna Massoni, Elpida Orfanidou and Adina Secretan has premiered in January 2016 and is since than on tour. In the end of 2017 the collective has extended the practice into a triptych that includes workshops and a durational performance with the participants. Her latest work «In the middle of Nowhere - your absence fills the space» has premiered in October 2019 in the Gessnerallee. As a performer she has worked amongst others with Jérôme Bel, Cie Branstätter/Gerbes, Philippe Saire and Liquid Loft/Chris Harring. Furthermore Truong works as an assistant and performer for Jérôme Bel, in the piece «Disabled Theater» and «Gala». Truong is recipient of the Danceweb scholarship and the Premio award in 2008. She has received the recognition prize from the province of Solothurn in 2010 and from the city of Zurich in 2011. From 2015 to 2020 Truong was the artistic director of the festival «TanzPlan Ost».
She is currently preparing the long-term project "Assemblage - a practice of listening" that brings artists, permaculture designers and scientists together.
Collaborators:
- Marcel Babazadeh, sound/diffusion advice, Zürich
- Povilas Bastys, costume - Brussels
- Flurin Bertschinger, photography - Zürich
- Karin Anna Biedert, costume - Zürich
- Antje Czudaj, administration - Zürich
- Igor Dobricic, dramaturgy - Berlin
- Nina Fajdiga, dance – Ljubljana
- Cosima Grand, dance - Zürich
- Domenico Guistino, dance - Brussels
- Jeanne Gummy, dance, Fribourg
- Cesar Harada, entrepreneur - Paris
- Tarek Halaby, dance - Brussels
- Jessica Huber, outside eye - Zürich
- 何穎雅 Elaine W. Ho, visual arts - Shanghai
- Chris Leuenberger, choreographer - Bern
- 李珂 Li Ke, dance - Shanghai
- 梁硕 Liang Shuo, visual arts - Beijing
- 刘斌 Liu Bin, dance - Beijing
- 刘亚囡 Liu Yanan, dance - Shanghai
- Thom Luz, music/theater - Zürich
- Aloun Marchal, dance - Paris/Gothenburg
- Eilit Marom, dance – Amsterdam
- Anna Massoni, dance - Paris
- Elpida Orfanidou, dance - Athens/Berlin
- Patrik Rimann, light, Zurich
- Adina Secretan, dramaturgy/performance - Lausanne
- Roger Sala Reyner, dance - Berlin
- Monika Truong, performance - Zürich
- Lucie Tuma, dramaturgy/performance – Zürich
- Jean-Baptiste Veyret-Logerias, voice - Paris
- Peter von Bartheld, Video - Zürich
- Christa Wenger, light - Zürich
- 萧薇 Xiao Wei, theater - Beijing
- 小河 Xiao He, music - Beijing