The starting point is the engagement with traditional Southeast Asian dances as well as autobiographical material to explore the movements of the queer diaspora: Together with the dancers of the Folkwang Dance Studio, he investigates how to connect and build intimacy. A fleeting fabric of bodies and memories emerges – a dance between transience and permanence.

Welcome to the Lotus Fight Club: When night falls, the ribbons of the traditional Chinese ribbon dance transform into whips – a reference to the sodomy law from the colonial period in Malaysia, which is still enforced through whipping. The choreography is driven by an energy to which the dancers are subjected. They must follow the rhythm of the ribbons – or submit to it.