Khamlane Halsackda is Associate artist with Step Out Arts in London and is also a member of Rörelsen in Malmö. He collaborates frequently with Emma Ribbing, with whom he is also artistic director of Malmö Youth Contemporary Dance, MYCD.
A single act is a solo made in 2010 and has toured to the UK, Sweden, India and Brazil; Yellow card is a duet and its sequel.
In A single act I initially explored issues surrounding love and sexuality, with Yellow card I found myself digging much deeper, realizing that my Lao heritage has had more of a profound influence on these subjects than I had previously imagined. I ended up confronting what my own traditions/upbringing expected of me regarding love, marriage and children, and also what others expected of me simply because I am East Asian. Both of these dance/theatre works look at the contradiction of the East Asian image, what exists in the eyes of others and what may really exist beneath this stereotype? It especially focuses on memories of my mother and sister and how they dealt with being immigrant women trying to integrate into an alien culture, what I recall of their experiences I feel reflect back to me my own experiences of being gay in an East Asian household. All this allows me to question what effect it had on my own expectations of love.