Taishin Bank Foundation for Arts and Culture

Comments on the Finalist 

TAI Body Theatre’s foot scripts reflect contemporary youth’s encounters with environmental challenges as well as collective migratory and diasporic experiences. It is composed through the collaborative body, engaging in affirmative, sensibility-oriented thinking and land philosophy. Starting with the relationship between the indigenous language and the body, it explores sonic and spatiotemporal dialectics and imaginations rooted in historical narratives. The dancers’ feet, like those of beasts, stamp and create landscape changes and layered temporalities, forming an epic of mountains and forests that convey memories of ancestral spirits and of returning to nature, along with the sorrows therein. Within the consoling power of music and dance, they weave hope and the regenerative forces of life. With heartfelt spiritual depth, this work confronts the challenge of disappearance through dynamic tensions and channels the sounds of all beings and past existences into our bodies, achieving the return of the impossible. (Commentator / CHOW Ling-Chih)

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Production Team

Artistic Director & Choreographer｜Watan Tusi

Performers｜Piya Talaliman, Lrimilrimi Kupangasane, Qaulai Tjivuljavus, Ising Suaiyung, Ansyang Makakazuwan

Producer｜Lin Chihyu

Executive Producer｜apu’u yakumangana

Apprentice Dancers｜yaway puna, Kai Naubana, Kayting

Visual Design｜apu’u yakumangana

Photography｜Lin Yen Shau

Cinematography｜Mumu Kao

Stage Sound & Engineering｜Cheng Dian Enterprise