- Presenter: Weiwuying
- Duration is 70 minutes without intermission.
- Age guidance 7+
- Latecomers must follow staff instructions for entry and re-entry.
- For Group Purchase Discounts, please contact 07-262-6666.
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※Discounts are not applicable for tickets tier at NT$300 and lower.
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【2022 Taiwan Dance Platform】HORSE FreeSteps - Swinging Years
Life grants us fascinating vistas. Let's take the stage and swing freely.
Kaohsiung-born choreographer SU Wei-chia explores the choreographic and physical possibilities with his ten-year project Freesteps, which depicts and discovers the forms of different dancers. With the purely dancing body as material, SU ponders the possibilities of the performer-audience relationship in contemporary dance, looking to introduce a different viewing experience.
2022 marks the ninth year of the ten-year choreography project FreeSteps. Choreographer SU Wei-chia looks forward to exploring the beauties of dance and the rhythms of life with the citizens of his hometown, Kaohsiung. SU collaborates with nearly 100 senior dancers to transform different life experiences into dance forms and present an exclusive "dance of the masses" at Weiwuying, where they tell stories through their bodies.
Post-talk
2022/11/13(Sun) Opera House Auditorium
Creative and Production Team
Choreographer｜SU Wei-chia
Music Design｜Blaire KO
Lighting Design｜LIU Chia-ming
Text｜CHANG Chih-yi
Rehearsal Director｜FANG Yu-ting, WANG Ssu-han, CHEN Pei-yung, LI Wei-han
Artists Introduction
Choreographer｜SU Wei-chia
Born in Kaohsiung, in 2004 co-founded HORSE. His numerous choreographies and collaborations include the group-created work Velocity, a winner of the 6th Taishin Arts Awards, and the autobiographical 2 Men, a collaboration with CHEN Wu-kang, and the 1st prize winner and Audience's Choice Award of the 2013 Kurt-Jooss-Preis. From 2009 to 2013, he was invited by Eliot Feld to join the Ballet Tech Dance Company in New York.
His ongoing FreeSteps project, launched in 2013, explores the relationship between contours, movements, characters, rhythm, music, and light; a performance at Les Hivernales - CDCN d'Avignon was described as“a succession of shocks that drive the imagination into obscure and delicious depths.”
He was the Artist-in-Residence of the NTCH in 2016. In addition to continuous dancing and creation in recent years, he has also started to focus on his social responsibility as a dancer and share the joy of dancing everywhere.
Music Design｜Blaire KO
Taiwance composer, won the Taiwan Golden Bell Award for Best Sound Soundtrack, Melody Award for Best Hakka Album. Repeatedly nominated for the Golden Melody Award for Best Orchestra, Best Pop Instrumental Album,Eslite election music, TAIPEI TIMES best album of the year, etc.has taught at the National Taiwan Normal University Department of Music Composer group his works cover classical to experimental, concert , theater,TV and movie soundtrack.
Lighting Design｜LIU Chia-ming
As Lighting designer and Technical director among various theater productions, commercial events and ceremonies, LIU has been on tours with companies to the U.S., Malaysia, Singapore, Japan, Hungary, Czech Republic, Shanghai and Beijing. He was the technical director in HORSE for productions between 2004 to 2016 including Stairs, Velocity, Bones, Growing up, Two Men, and Freesteps among others and tours in Joyce Theatre (N.Y.), Firstworks Festival, Guangdong Modern Dance Week and Avignon Off. Other productions he participated as technical director are: LIU Guan-hsiang Karma, Tong,Yang-Tze SAO and SAO PLUS, Meimage Dance New Choreographer Project 2016 and New Paradise of Silent Island 2018.
Text｜CHANG Chih-yi
Graduated from the Department of Drama at National Taiwan University in the 11th class, now working as a theater actor, lighting designer, freelance graphic designer and running a coffee shop.
Recent performances include: 2018 Tainaner Ensemble Twelfth Night , 2019 London Chinese Art Now Lao Can Impression, VMTheatre's original musical Reed Unbroken, 2020 Chen Jiasheng Studio Golden Life , 2021 Tainaner Ensemble Titus.
Rehearsal Director｜FANG Yu-ting
Born in Kaohsiung, FANG Yu-ting joined Cloud Gate Dance Theatre shortly after her graduation. She has been a dancer and rehearsal director in HORSE since 2015 and is currently one of the main dancers in the productions that are part of SU Wei-chia's FreeSteps series. In 2019, she performed FreeSteps-NiNi as the soloist for the Taiwan International Festival of Arts(TIFA), and was nominated for the Taishin Performing Arts Award. In the same year, FreeSteps-NiNi toured to A4-Zero Space, Slovakia, and One Dance Week, Bulgaria.
Rehearsal Director｜WANG Ssu-han
Aquarius, from Chiayi city. Studying in Graduate Institute of Dance Choreography in Taipei National University of the Arts. The dance video work Inside・Insight created in Chiayi East Market , won the Special Jury Award of S-An Aesthetics Award in 2021. Other creations have been published in Kuandu Arts Festival Next , Want to Dance Festival How Are You? - Imagination Proposal for Pas de Deux, BacktoTao Arts Festival D-day, Tua-Tiu-Tiann International Festival of Arts Get Together. Performer experience: Body Detour Elders&Youth Co-Create Wolves, Les Petites Choses Production Dark Light Birds - E World Art World, LIU Yi-ling 13+1, HUANG Huai-de Tainan Art Festival - (X_X) Flowing Feast, WANG Yi-fang Both Ends: Twenty Streams Across Artists, Timothy Nouzak Field-Works Nº2.3.
Rehearsal Director｜CHEN Pei-yung
CHEN Pei-yung received a master's degree in dance performance at National Taiwan University of the Arts and is the lead dancer of FreeSteps series. In 2019, she participated in the Taiwan-Macau co-production of FreeSteps with HORSE and her past performance experiences include 2015 Festival Off d'Avignon, 2020 Nuit Blanche Taipei The Flowing Body Sculpture in Time, The Wind Rises by WCdance, 2×2 by Sheu Fang-yi & Artists, Swan Lake by Formosa Ballet and 2011 Summer Stage Dance at Concord Academy, Boston.
Rehearsal Director｜LI Wei-han
LI Wei-han attended the Department of Dance at National Taiwan University of the Arts. He was previously a dancer of WCdance and Cloud Gate 2. The performances in which he participated include Touch, Aerodynamics, Long River, Small Nanguan 2, Small End, Small Nanguan, Small Songs, Small Puzzles 2, and WCdance×The Seldoms. In 2019, he performed for Tainan Arts Festival : (Ｘ＿Ｘ) Flowing Feast directed by HUANG Huai-de and Gray by White Dance Theater and Elephant Gym in 2018.
HORSE
Founded in 2004, HORSE has established a distinctive profile with delicate physical movements and unrestricted creativities. In 2008, Velocity won the Taishin Arts Award, Taiwan's grand arts prize. In 2013, 2 Men won the 1st prize and Audience Award in Kurt Jooss Preis, PACT Zollverein, Essen, Germany. In recent years, CHEN Wu-kang, the artistic director, and SU Wei-chia, the general director, have developed their unique art praxis. They continue to advance the company into the bright future, a period of metamorphism for them in the Taiwanese contemporary dance scene. HORSE also endeavors on international collaboration, outreach programs and curatorial projects. The practices include the platform Primal Chaos Dance x Sounds Improvisation, Back to the moment Dancing Talking Bar, a dance cinema in which creators and commentators have a live sharing, and others.
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【2022 Taiwan Dance Platform】HORSE FreeSteps - Swinging Years
Life grants us fascinating vistas. Let's take the stage and swing freely.
Kaohsiung-born choreographer SU Wei-chia explores the choreographic and physical possibilities with his ten-year project Freesteps, which depicts and discovers the forms of different dancers. With the purely dancing body as material, SU ponders the possibilities of the performer-audience relationship in contemporary dance, looking to introduce a different viewing experience.
2022 marks the ninth year of the ten-year choreography project FreeSteps. Choreographer SU Wei-chia looks forward to exploring the beauties of dance and the rhythms of life with the citizens of his hometown, Kaohsiung. SU collaborates with nearly 100 senior dancers to transform different life experiences into dance forms and present an exclusive "dance of the masses" at Weiwuying, where they tell stories through their bodies.
Post-talk
2022/11/13(Sun) Opera House Auditorium
Creative and Production Team
Choreographer｜SU Wei-chia
Music Design｜Blaire KO
Lighting Design｜LIU Chia-ming
Text｜CHANG Chih-yi
Rehearsal Director｜FANG Yu-ting, WANG Ssu-han, CHEN Pei-yung, LI Wei-han
Artists Introduction
Choreographer｜SU Wei-chia
Born in Kaohsiung, in 2004 co-founded HORSE. His numerous choreographies and collaborations include the group-created work Velocity, a winner of the 6th Taishin Arts Awards, and the autobiographical 2 Men, a collaboration with CHEN Wu-kang, and the 1st prize winner and Audience's Choice Award of the 2013 Kurt-Jooss-Preis. From 2009 to 2013, he was invited by Eliot Feld to join the Ballet Tech Dance Company in New York.
His ongoing FreeSteps project, launched in 2013, explores the relationship between contours, movements, characters, rhythm, music, and light; a performance at Les Hivernales - CDCN d'Avignon was described as“a succession of shocks that drive the imagination into obscure and delicious depths.”
He was the Artist-in-Residence of the NTCH in 2016. In addition to continuous dancing and creation in recent years, he has also started to focus on his social responsibility as a dancer and share the joy of dancing everywhere.
Music Design｜Blaire KO
Taiwance composer, won the Taiwan Golden Bell Award for Best Sound Soundtrack, Melody Award for Best Hakka Album. Repeatedly nominated for the Golden Melody Award for Best Orchestra, Best Pop Instrumental Album,Eslite election music, TAIPEI TIMES best album of the year, etc.has taught at the National Taiwan Normal University Department of Music Composer group his works cover classical to experimental, concert , theater,TV and movie soundtrack.
Lighting Design｜LIU Chia-ming
As Lighting designer and Technical director among various theater productions, commercial events and ceremonies, LIU has been on tours with companies to the U.S., Malaysia, Singapore, Japan, Hungary, Czech Republic, Shanghai and Beijing. He was the technical director in HORSE for productions between 2004 to 2016 including Stairs, Velocity, Bones, Growing up, Two Men, and Freesteps among others and tours in Joyce Theatre (N.Y.), Firstworks Festival, Guangdong Modern Dance Week and Avignon Off. Other productions he participated as technical director are: LIU Guan-hsiang Karma, Tong,Yang-Tze SAO and SAO PLUS, Meimage Dance New Choreographer Project 2016 and New Paradise of Silent Island 2018.
Text｜CHANG Chih-yi
Graduated from the Department of Drama at National Taiwan University in the 11th class, now working as a theater actor, lighting designer, freelance graphic designer and running a coffee shop.
Recent performances include: 2018 Tainaner Ensemble Twelfth Night , 2019 London Chinese Art Now Lao Can Impression, VMTheatre's original musical Reed Unbroken, 2020 Chen Jiasheng Studio Golden Life , 2021 Tainaner Ensemble Titus.
Rehearsal Director｜FANG Yu-ting
Born in Kaohsiung, FANG Yu-ting joined Cloud Gate Dance Theatre shortly after her graduation. She has been a dancer and rehearsal director in HORSE since 2015 and is currently one of the main dancers in the productions that are part of SU Wei-chia's FreeSteps series. In 2019, she performed FreeSteps-NiNi as the soloist for the Taiwan International Festival of Arts(TIFA), and was nominated for the Taishin Performing Arts Award. In the same year, FreeSteps-NiNi toured to A4-Zero Space, Slovakia, and One Dance Week, Bulgaria.
Rehearsal Director｜WANG Ssu-han
Aquarius, from Chiayi city. Studying in Graduate Institute of Dance Choreography in Taipei National University of the Arts. The dance video work Inside・Insight created in Chiayi East Market , won the Special Jury Award of S-An Aesthetics Award in 2021. Other creations have been published in Kuandu Arts Festival Next , Want to Dance Festival How Are You? - Imagination Proposal for Pas de Deux, BacktoTao Arts Festival D-day, Tua-Tiu-Tiann International Festival of Arts Get Together. Performer experience: Body Detour Elders&Youth Co-Create Wolves, Les Petites Choses Production Dark Light Birds - E World Art World, LIU Yi-ling 13+1, HUANG Huai-de Tainan Art Festival - (X_X) Flowing Feast, WANG Yi-fang Both Ends: Twenty Streams Across Artists, Timothy Nouzak Field-Works Nº2.3.
Rehearsal Director｜CHEN Pei-yung
CHEN Pei-yung received a master's degree in dance performance at National Taiwan University of the Arts and is the lead dancer of FreeSteps series. In 2019, she participated in the Taiwan-Macau co-production of FreeSteps with HORSE and her past performance experiences include 2015 Festival Off d'Avignon, 2020 Nuit Blanche Taipei The Flowing Body Sculpture in Time, The Wind Rises by WCdance, 2×2 by Sheu Fang-yi & Artists, Swan Lake by Formosa Ballet and 2011 Summer Stage Dance at Concord Academy, Boston.
Rehearsal Director｜LI Wei-han
LI Wei-han attended the Department of Dance at National Taiwan University of the Arts. He was previously a dancer of WCdance and Cloud Gate 2. The performances in which he participated include Touch, Aerodynamics, Long River, Small Nanguan 2, Small End, Small Nanguan, Small Songs, Small Puzzles 2, and WCdance×The Seldoms. In 2019, he performed for Tainan Arts Festival : (Ｘ＿Ｘ) Flowing Feast directed by HUANG Huai-de and Gray by White Dance Theater and Elephant Gym in 2018.
HORSE
Founded in 2004, HORSE has established a distinctive profile with delicate physical movements and unrestricted creativities. In 2008, Velocity won the Taishin Arts Award, Taiwan's grand arts prize. In 2013, 2 Men won the 1st prize and Audience Award in Kurt Jooss Preis, PACT Zollverein, Essen, Germany. In recent years, CHEN Wu-kang, the artistic director, and SU Wei-chia, the general director, have developed their unique art praxis. They continue to advance the company into the bright future, a period of metamorphism for them in the Taiwanese contemporary dance scene. HORSE also endeavors on international collaboration, outreach programs and curatorial projects. The practices include the platform Primal Chaos Dance x Sounds Improvisation, Back to the moment Dancing Talking Bar, a dance cinema in which creators and commentators have a live sharing, and others.
Learn More
|
- Presenter: Weiwuying
- Duration is 70 minutes without intermission.
- Age guidance 7+
- Latecomers must follow staff instructions for entry and re-entry.
- For Group Purchase Discounts, please contact 07-262-6666.
- More Offers
※Discounts are not applicable for tickets tier at NT$300 and lower.
- 10% off for Weiwuying Lifestyle member
- 25% off for Weiwuying Youth member
- 10% off additional ticket purchase for Weiwuying Unlimited member
- For details, please see Weiwuying Members Benefit
