\nHis 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.”
\nHe 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.
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Music Design|Blaire KO
\n\nTaiwance 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.
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\nLighting 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.
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\nText|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.
\nRecent 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.
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\nRehearsal 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.
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\nRehearsal Director|WANG Ssu-han
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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.
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\nRehearsal 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.
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\nRehearsal 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.
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\nHORSE
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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