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Choreographer, dancer and curator all-in-one, Weiwuying Artist-in-Residence Chou Shu-yi has been exploring relationships between human bodies and the city. As his artistic response to the pandemic, Shu-yi swiftly curated Unfolding Futures – Body Motion Short Film Festival to rethink the ethos of art. After sea-level rise, I… is a piece that Shu-yi created on the roof of the Weiwuying architecture. Through this video, the artist attempts to share his perspectives on the future of climate change and flood –"perhaps one day, this would become the refuge of life." Here we present the special edition of the film.
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Transmission: Beginning Step into Walk/Dance Project
\n\nCommissioned by National Taichung Theater (Taiwan)
\n\nProject Director / Concept / Performer|YU Yen-fang
\n\nCo-creator / Performer|CHEN Wu-kang
\n\nCo-creator / Film Director|Maurice LAI
\n\nDuration|15 min 30sec
\n\nThe video documents the Walk/Dance Project by YU Yen-Fang and CHEN Wu-Kang, two iconic middle-aged dance artists in Taiwan, against the backdrop of the island's geography. In the initial stage, Yu and Chen followed the artist KAO Jun-Honn's field survey of the ruined Topa Frontier Lines from the Japanese Occupation to trek into the mountains, transforming the bumpy physicality across the woods and the perceptual impact of the encounter with historical sites into an improvised performance taking place at the dance studio of HORSE in Banqiao, Xinbei City. The Walk/Dance Project, as its title suggests, is about the body walking and dancing across the daily streets and historical sites, presented with possible real-time forms including exhibition, live stream, and live performance. It is the minstrelsy of the body, characterized with a fragile quality of immediacy, makeshift, and ephemerality to manage a direct and yet transparent path as expressed physically.
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Terry-fying (work in progress)
\n\nCommissioned by Tai Kwun – Centre for Heritage and Arts (Hong Kong)
\n\nConcept, Choreography & Performance|Terry TSANG
\n\nResearch & Performance|WONG Yiu Kuen
\n\nCinematography & Editor|Vincent IP
\n\nDuration|13 min 47sec.
\n\nAshes to ashes, dust to dust……
\nNothing can be brought away, only the karma that follows.
This is a presentation of a work-in-progress, inspired from Terry's own work Terry-fy from a year ago which demonstrated his fear of hair. With this research focusing on life and death, he further investigates the impact of space and sound on the human body.
\n\nBased on “breaking hell”, a traditional Taoist ritual for the dead, Terry explores the power of the sound of chanting scriptures from this ritual to generate different body textures, or even to travel through different spaces.
\n\nThe research will continue and eventually develop into a complete live performance.
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\nRooms, a film by Cinemovement
Commissioned by Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay (Singapore)
\n\nCo-directors|Elysa Wendi and Liao Jiekai
\n\nChoreographer / Performer|Albert TIONG
\n\nDuration|16min 44sec
\n\nA programme of Huayi - Chinese Festival of Arts 2021
\n\nAn introspective dance portrait of a career in movement through rooms—physical and metaphorical—that inhibit and encase, but were also inhabited and embraced. Rooms delves into the soul of Singapore contemporary dancer Albert TIONG, uncovering and revealing the intimate milestones of a key contemporary dance figure's coming of age in Singapore.
\nFor over two decades, Albert TIONG pushed towards his goal of being an eminent dancer, choreographer and educator. Through this journey, he discovers that his personal spaces of safety for his body and mind have protected him as much as moulded him. Behind all the armour, beneath all the layers, who is he really?
\nRooms is co-directed by Elysa WENDI and LIAO Jiekai and produced by Jeremy CHUA — three practitioners of Cinemovement, an artist-run platform for artists to explore interdisciplinary propositions between the dance and film practices in various settings.
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CHOU Shu-yi
\n\nBorn in 1983, Chou is a choreographer and dancer. His recent creations, in the forms of theatre, site-specific performance or dance video, question the value of life and reflect the status of an individual or a group in different social contexts, and create "a body vocabulary that belongs to Asia". Chou continues to seek new methods of creation, and potentials of cross-disciplinary collaboration using different mediums. His work Break & Break! won the Taishin Performing Arts Award of the 17th Taishin Arts Award in 2019.
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William LÜ
\n\nWILLIAM LÜ is a filmmaker and a dance educator. He danced professionally for over 15 years in the USA and the Netherlands. He has served as a guest faculty at Codarts Rotterdam University of the Arts and Holland Dans Festival among others. He is a two-time Lester Horton Award recipient for his performance with an American dance company, Backhausdance. Lü's film works have been featured in festivals such as Busan International Short Film Festival, MECAL in Barcelona, Asians on Film in Hollywood, Sandfly International Film Festival in Melbourne and Cinedans in Amsterdam. He currently resides in Taiwan.
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WANG Yu-jun
\n\nYujun Wang graduated from the Applied Drama and Theater Department at National Taiwan University of Arts. She currently works as a singer-songwriter and composer who explores the border between music and sound, as well as their connection between theater, dance, performing arts, visual Arts, space, film and literature.
\n\nYujun looks forward to making music in various corners of the world, recording vibrations that are native to the local atmosphere and their rhythms of life; hopefully uncovering through indigenous poems and songs new ways to bringing cultures into dialogue with one another.
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