- Date 2018.11.05- 11.18
- Venue Hsinchu City
We Island Dance Festival: Hsinchu Jump
HORSE
Comments on the Finalist
How can an art festival engage the society besides producing delicate, comprehensive packages of programs to be staged in all the art venues at various time slots or advertising the fame of well-known groups or the nimbus of celebrated individuals? We Island Dance Festival: Hsinchu Jump diverts from the traditional curatorial route and adopts an alternative approach to put all types of body languages in the dance spectrum together, be it ballet, modern dance, street dance, or even track and field. The festival creates a platform where training systems of dissimilar nature and logic encounter and collide, forming a more adaptable space of sensibility. The unification of these young choreographers’ energies not only weaves a web of practices and dialogues that is decentralized and deemphasizing on singular body aesthetics, it also takes the audience back to a point before all performances and rehearsals are created, as a way to excavate the energy of dancing hidden in each individual. Their way of sharing might be simple in appearance, but it delivers a profound way of reimagining the distribution of art resource.
(Commentator: WANG Sheng-Hung)
Artwork Introduction
We Island Dance Festival: Hsinchu Jump aims to “have the inhabitants of Hsinchu jump in and make all the people on this island dance,” hoping to immerse the audience in a dancing atmosphere. The dance festival, organized and curated by HORSE, is the dance company’s ever first attempt of this kind. With its influence and continuous endeavors in the field of performing arts, the dance festival shatters the public’s stereotypical impression and perception of dance. Stepping away from mainstream curatorial approaches, the dance festival brings together twenty independent choreographers of different generations and genres to deconstruct “dance” with its diverse, new conception of workshops, talks and experimental programs. By revisiting the learning, meaning and imagination of dance, the dance festival engages the audience with new possibilities to introduce fresh awareness and experience of dance.
About the Artist
HORSE
The Chinese character, “驫” (pronounced as “biao”), refers to a herd of galloping horses. Founded by choreographers and performers including Chen Wu-Kang and Su Wei-Chia in 2004, the dance company is known and praised for its collective creation, precise physical performance and unique theatrical style. In 2008, nominated for the first time, their work, Velocity, was awarded the Performing Arts Award in the 6th Taishin Arts Award. In 2013, the dance company won the First Prize and Audience Award in Germany’s Kurt Jooss Preis with the work, 2 Men. In recent years, Chen and Su, the two key figures of the dance company, have developed their independent creative paths, seeking new forces of creativity as their contemporary dance careers have entered the fifteenth year in Taiwan. In addition to creating their own dances, HORSE also engages in multiple international collaborations, dance education programs and curatorial projects, among which are the improvisation platform Primal Chaos that combines dance and music and Back to the Moment Dancing Talking Bar, which features dialogues and discussions between creators and critics.
Production Team
Curator:Wu-Kang Chen, Wei-Chia Su
Participating artists/teams:
Ming-Shen Ku, Hsiao-Tzu Tien, Yen-Fang Yu, Su-Fen Wu,
Yu-Hsien Wu, Chien-Wei Wu, Yu-Ju Lin, Fangas Nayaw,
Rex Peng, Huai-Te Huang, I-Fen Tung, Yi-Wen Cheng,
Ching-Ying Chien, Sabung Pinang, Shai Tamir,
Ren Jhen Lian Wu Jhong,
National Chu-pei Senior High School / Riverbank Dance,
Hsinchu County Cheng-Gong Junior High School
Administrative Coordinator:Wan-Jung Wei
Project Manager:Yu Fang
Technical Director: Chia-Ming Liu
Stage and visual coordinator:Yin-Chiao Liao
Stage Manager: Jiou-Fang Peng
Lighting Design:Yu-Ling Hsu
Graphic Design:DESIGN-LEE
Film shooting and production:Wei-Sheng Chen
Photography:Yu-Chung Chao
Production Manager:Ching-Tzu Chien
Marketing & Planning:Cynthia Chiang, Chen-Shin Wang, Wei-Ping Chen
Administrative Assistant:Ming-Hwa Yeh, Yu-Ting Fang, Jung Yang