Drought And Rain is French Vietnamese choreographer Ea Sola’s 1995 work that followed five years of research on the traditional music and dance of Vietnam and the lasting effect of the war on its people.

Drought And Rain celebrates historical and cultural memory and meditates on the cost of conflict and imperialism. Now, 16 years later, together with a group of elderly women from the north of Vietnam, whose singing had consoled the soldiers in the front lines, and an ensemble of six virtuoso traditional musicians, Ea Sola has recreated this moving work.

Shifting between hypnotically slow, graceful movements and urgent, almost visceral reactions, they create a powerful and hugely compelling account of the human legacy of war with performers who lived through it.

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