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● Duration is 50 mins.
\n\n● Mobile Theatre without seats.
\n\n●Suggested for ages 12+
\n●Please arrive early for the performance. Latecomers will not be admitted.
Undoubtedly, that the performance is extremely bold and challenging.
\n\nWu Mali -- Taishin Arts Award Nominator
\n\nThe dance is not merely fascinating; its ritualistic and religious implication creates
\n\nmultiple connections among artists, performers, and spectators in the context of
\n\ntraditional culture, native land, humanity, space, religion, etc.
\n\n Chen Hui-Mei──Taishin Arts Award Nominator
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The End of the Rainbow is an original work elaborated from the ritual of khan-bông kua-tīn (burial songs). The work investigates the dying tradition of Taiwanese funeral ritual and transforms it into an internalized spirit as well as the “body” unique to one’s native culture.
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As the name suggests, khan-bông kua-tīn (burial songs) are often heard in traditional Taiwanese funerals where priests go inside the house of the deceased to guide the soul of the dead. The lyrics mostly describe how the soul is led through the 36 guan and 72 sha (both mean danger and crisis, while they can also be understood as “challenge,” “pass,” or “obstacle”) to the Ten Courts of Hell for the final trial. Burial songs always begin with inviting the deity to come and end in sending the deity back to heaven, and the ultimate purpose of chanting the songs is to guide the soul to the Western Paradise.
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Our field studies of burial songs allow us to further examine what we intend to confront in The End of the Rainbow. In this era, what is the exact thing we want to guide/bring from one world to another?
\n\nIn the Taiwanese tradition, the purpose of khan-bông kua-tīn (burial songs) is to transcend the souls of the dead and to guide them to the next state of “existence.” Thus, The End of the Rainbow is the farewell to the overly Westernized body, so as to welcome a body of our own, a body embodying our native culture.
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\nMauvais Chausson Dance Theater
by the choreographer Lin I-Chin in 2014, Mauvais Chausson Dance Theatre, as its name suggests, models itself on the progress achieved by Isadora Duncan, the Mother of Modern Dance, who outrageously threw away the corsets and ballet slippers in the early 20th Century to fight for the liberation of mind and body. Inspired by Isadora Duncan’s revolutionary gesture, Mauvais Chausson Dance Theatre attempts to break away from a regulated modern body and bordered artistic forms to venture into the relationship between the body and the land of Taiwan. Through field research, environmental theatre performance, and an artistic practice closely connected to the land, the company tries to recover the warmth of the human touch, integrating artistic values with social responsibilities to bring modern people back to their true selves.
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The End of the Rainbow
\n\nChoreographer|I-Chin Lin
\nPerformers|Yan-Bin Chen, Chun-Te Liu, Tzu-Ling Peng, En-Chi Chen
\nProducer|Chih-Yang Lin
\nStage Design|Yu-Han Chao
\nMusic Design|Tzu-Mei Li
\nCostume Design|Hao-Tien Tsai
\nLighting Design|Ching-Ting Lan
\nStage Manager|Yen-Chi Liu
\nBurial Songs & Music Instruction|Tsung-Fan Lin
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※ Originally made for 2016 SongYan Creative Lab program
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