● This is an outdoor performance. Free entry, duration is 185 minutes. For more information, please refer to the Weiwuying website.
2020 Weiwuying Circus Platform – Circus Wonderland
※The performance have been changed. For more information please contact +886-7-2626669.。
【2020 Weiwuying Circus Platform】Program Guide
The storyteller fings off his top hat and reveals himself. He ficks his fngers and opens his hands wide and a story emerges. Anywhere you go can turn into a dreamland! Try to find the hidden magic of age-old magic tricks that dazzle the eyes. Crowds make tea and play games under the trees. You can quietly ask about the secrets of ventriloquism. Perhaps you have never ventured into this place, but you can follow the butterflies that fill the sky for the opportunity to sniff the fragrance of flowers in the air. You can also open up your ears and follow the music and listen to the lively sounds of the insects and birds by the
roadside. If none of this impresses you, then it's better to open up your eyes and follow closely behind the light and shadows produced by the top hat. Those kaleidoscopic and enchanting scenes are guaranteed to heal you body and soul! (Written by Stella TSAI)
Artists and Companies
11/28(Sat) 11/29(Sun) 15:30-18:35
Spinning Macarons by On. P. Young
On. P. Young was established in 2013 by National Taiwan College of Performing Arts alumni who later entered the circus world. Their performances utilize masks, song and dance, magic, object theater, and physical comedy. They have been doing street performances for a long time, accumulating experiences in nontraditional performance spaces. In search of a contemporary theater for the people, On. P. Young humorously investigates the concept of circus, juggling, and objects and explores new forms by integrating street performance, circus, and physical theater. Created for the 2020 Weiwuying Circus Platform, Spinning Macarons will premiere at the Banyan Plaza ! Seven performers will take on the role of storytellers who connect wonderful stories and lead the audience through the space of Weiwuying. This site-specific performance has five different routes : curious elves discovering a new world, a group of people who playfully imitate, a space odyssey, the fantasizing pianist, and dazzling top hat juggling. Spinning Macarons, along with five other performances, will begin a fantastic journey in the circus forest under the banyan trees !
11/28(Sat) 11/29(Sun) 15:45-16:10
Baby in Cart by HSU Kai-hsuan
HSU Kai-hsuan works at Research Center for Environmental Changes, Academia Sinica on weekdays, researching air pollution. On holidays, he is an independent street artist who performs all over the world. His Mario Game Time and Baby in Cart focused on "playing with the audience". He has served as an art consultant for the National Street Art Competival, and a member of Taipei City Street Artist Review Committee. He is currently a director of the Taiwan Street Arts Culture Development Association. New Dad and his child went to the store to buy daily supplies. As they pass under the banyan trees on their way back, a series of unexpected and mysterious incidents occur. How can New Dad overcome the challenges and return home safely ? Through the interactive performance of clown performance and air balloons, Baby in Cart presents the adventure of a father and son. This performance uses various store products as objects, combined with juggling and circus acts, and invites the audience to problem-solve with Baby in Cart.
11/28(Sat) 11/29(Sun) 16:30-16:50
Master M and Boy Z by WHO Theatre
WHO Theatre was established in 2007 by a group of non-professionally trained young people. They are yo-yo and diabolo enthusiasts who are committed to breaking away from tradition and brandishing a new performance concept for yo-yo and diabolo. They have written an important chapter in preserving Taiwan’s culture. With the refreshing creativity they brought to traditional techniques, these young people continue to shine in the contemporary era and successfully lead WHO Theatre from street performance art to the international stage. The annual Global Mega Magic Tour is here again ! In this tour, Master Magician M and his new assistant Z will introduce a hybrid performance with new techniques. However, this is only Z’s debut, which unfortunately is a large-scale performance. Will Z’s debut bring the finishing touch to Master Magician M’s show, or will it lead to a disaster?
11/28(Sat) 17:05-17:20
HEY NOW by 0471 Acro Physical Theatre
Founded in 2020, 0471 Acrobatic Physical Theater combines precise and norm-defying use of the body with theater and music. With aims to create new artistic styles, convey the wildest imaginations, and construct a world belonging to the circus, 0471 hopes to turn the theater into a space of dialogue through extraordinary physical feats. Hey Now presents a man and a woman whose limbs are staggered and muscles kneaded. The two breathe with one another, emotions intertwined, they are moving towards the ideal state of symbiosis and existence. The two closely connected individuals onstage are conjoined twins affecting each other with every move. Through the physical expression of stunts, the body becomes a medium for dialogue. During the performance, as the spectators breathe together and share the same frequency, they open their hearts to listen, respond, analyze and fantasize.
11/29(Sun) 17:05-17:20
Fall in love with you by HU Chia-hao
HU graduated from the University of Taipei Graduate Institute of Sports Training. He is an aerialist who has made the cross from martial arts. With nearly ten years of martial arts training, he is one of the few performers in Taiwan who can integrate martial arts and circus. HU has traveled to nearly 20 countries and participated in major art festivals at home and abroad. With the stimulation of different cultures, he has enriched his circus performance. Fall in love with you details the intricate interpersonal feelings, like silk and satin, which are woven and connected by tiny threads. As the most representative category in circus arts and aerial silk, which uses woven silk and satin as a medium, presents the unique tension and grace of circus arts through the performers' physical skills. The red silk and satin, reflecting human emotion, is warm, tough and hopeful. The aerial artists freely thread between the fabric, sometimes balanced and sometimes falling, creating beautiful moments through the arrangement of different techniques !
11/28(Sat) 11/29(Sun) 17:35-17:55
Step by WU Haw-jong
WU is a diabolo street artist with a neglected master’s degree in Chinese. He is the Tokyo International Diabolo Competition vertax diabolo champion and Asian International Diabolo Competition silver medalist. He usually performs on the streets and has also participated in the Changhua Children’s Art Festival and the Street Act Lab’s first and fourth editions. He is now a happy person who creates, lives and treats the audience wholeheartedly. Step. Everything started with a simple love for diabolo; acquired achievements cultivated a fearless enthusiasm. The thunderous applause and recognition lessened the desire to learn. Endless pursuit diminished my original intent. Oncoming setbacks and harsh words from peers created a fragmented me. Still, diabolo always sat beside my feet or behind me quietly, waiting for me to pick it up again. Those best of times were like the countless moments of innocence lost in life. It was diabolo that led me on a lifelong search for simplicity. I pick it up, embrace it, trust it, and let it light up my soul.
11/28(Sat) 11/29(Sun) 18:10-18:35
Ba~HaGa! by DAI Yu-ren, Wu Zheng-ying
Two partners who live together lead ordinary lives. When the two returned home one day, only to find their home like a circus. Through a circus mindset, they re-interpret and re-analyze the big and small things in life. Inject the wildest imagination into the simplest actions, add competitive fun to ordinary life, find chemistry in games, and establish nonverbal expressions through chemistry. Unlimited creativity and varieties instantly transform everyday life into a circus filled with drama ! DAI Yu-ren & WU Zheng-ying are both coming from Taiwan Circus Gate. DAI Yu-ren uses juggling objects and life as inspiration coupled with the "dramatic structure" to resonate with the audience. He connects with people and things in the world in the creative process and prepares a surprise for the audience. WU Zheng-ying comes from Taiwan Circus Gate and loves to observe people and things. He believes that "life is art, and art is life" and regards creation as the accumulation of life. During the creative process, he continually questions himself as he seeks answers. Most of his inspiration comes from experience and intriguing things in life. He expresses his views on the world through creation.
Major Sponsor
2020 Weiwuying Circus Platform – Circus Wonderland
※The performance have been changed. For more information please contact +886-7-2626669.。
【2020 Weiwuying Circus Platform】Program Guide
The storyteller fings off his top hat and reveals himself. He ficks his fngers and opens his hands wide and a story emerges. Anywhere you go can turn into a dreamland! Try to find the hidden magic of age-old magic tricks that dazzle the eyes. Crowds make tea and play games under the trees. You can quietly ask about the secrets of ventriloquism. Perhaps you have never ventured into this place, but you can follow the butterflies that fill the sky for the opportunity to sniff the fragrance of flowers in the air. You can also open up your ears and follow the music and listen to the lively sounds of the insects and birds by the
roadside. If none of this impresses you, then it's better to open up your eyes and follow closely behind the light and shadows produced by the top hat. Those kaleidoscopic and enchanting scenes are guaranteed to heal you body and soul! (Written by Stella TSAI)
Artists and Companies
11/28(Sat) 11/29(Sun) 15:30-18:35
Spinning Macarons by On. P. Young
On. P. Young was established in 2013 by National Taiwan College of Performing Arts alumni who later entered the circus world. Their performances utilize masks, song and dance, magic, object theater, and physical comedy. They have been doing street performances for a long time, accumulating experiences in nontraditional performance spaces. In search of a contemporary theater for the people, On. P. Young humorously investigates the concept of circus, juggling, and objects and explores new forms by integrating street performance, circus, and physical theater. Created for the 2020 Weiwuying Circus Platform, Spinning Macarons will premiere at the Banyan Plaza ! Seven performers will take on the role of storytellers who connect wonderful stories and lead the audience through the space of Weiwuying. This site-specific performance has five different routes : curious elves discovering a new world, a group of people who playfully imitate, a space odyssey, the fantasizing pianist, and dazzling top hat juggling. Spinning Macarons, along with five other performances, will begin a fantastic journey in the circus forest under the banyan trees !
11/28(Sat) 11/29(Sun) 15:45-16:10
Baby in Cart by HSU Kai-hsuan
HSU Kai-hsuan works at Research Center for Environmental Changes, Academia Sinica on weekdays, researching air pollution. On holidays, he is an independent street artist who performs all over the world. His Mario Game Time and Baby in Cart focused on "playing with the audience". He has served as an art consultant for the National Street Art Competival, and a member of Taipei City Street Artist Review Committee. He is currently a director of the Taiwan Street Arts Culture Development Association. New Dad and his child went to the store to buy daily supplies. As they pass under the banyan trees on their way back, a series of unexpected and mysterious incidents occur. How can New Dad overcome the challenges and return home safely ? Through the interactive performance of clown performance and air balloons, Baby in Cart presents the adventure of a father and son. This performance uses various store products as objects, combined with juggling and circus acts, and invites the audience to problem-solve with Baby in Cart.
11/28(Sat) 11/29(Sun) 16:30-16:50
Master M and Boy Z by WHO Theatre
WHO Theatre was established in 2007 by a group of non-professionally trained young people. They are yo-yo and diabolo enthusiasts who are committed to breaking away from tradition and brandishing a new performance concept for yo-yo and diabolo. They have written an important chapter in preserving Taiwan’s culture. With the refreshing creativity they brought to traditional techniques, these young people continue to shine in the contemporary era and successfully lead WHO Theatre from street performance art to the international stage. The annual Global Mega Magic Tour is here again ! In this tour, Master Magician M and his new assistant Z will introduce a hybrid performance with new techniques. However, this is only Z’s debut, which unfortunately is a large-scale performance. Will Z’s debut bring the finishing touch to Master Magician M’s show, or will it lead to a disaster?
11/28(Sat) 17:05-17:20
HEY NOW by 0471 Acro Physical Theatre
Founded in 2020, 0471 Acrobatic Physical Theater combines precise and norm-defying use of the body with theater and music. With aims to create new artistic styles, convey the wildest imaginations, and construct a world belonging to the circus, 0471 hopes to turn the theater into a space of dialogue through extraordinary physical feats. Hey Now presents a man and a woman whose limbs are staggered and muscles kneaded. The two breathe with one another, emotions intertwined, they are moving towards the ideal state of symbiosis and existence. The two closely connected individuals onstage are conjoined twins affecting each other with every move. Through the physical expression of stunts, the body becomes a medium for dialogue. During the performance, as the spectators breathe together and share the same frequency, they open their hearts to listen, respond, analyze and fantasize.
11/29(Sun) 17:05-17:20
Fall in love with you by HU Chia-hao
HU graduated from the University of Taipei Graduate Institute of Sports Training. He is an aerialist who has made the cross from martial arts. With nearly ten years of martial arts training, he is one of the few performers in Taiwan who can integrate martial arts and circus. HU has traveled to nearly 20 countries and participated in major art festivals at home and abroad. With the stimulation of different cultures, he has enriched his circus performance. Fall in love with you details the intricate interpersonal feelings, like silk and satin, which are woven and connected by tiny threads. As the most representative category in circus arts and aerial silk, which uses woven silk and satin as a medium, presents the unique tension and grace of circus arts through the performers' physical skills. The red silk and satin, reflecting human emotion, is warm, tough and hopeful. The aerial artists freely thread between the fabric, sometimes balanced and sometimes falling, creating beautiful moments through the arrangement of different techniques !
11/28(Sat) 11/29(Sun) 17:35-17:55
Step by WU Haw-jong
WU is a diabolo street artist with a neglected master’s degree in Chinese. He is the Tokyo International Diabolo Competition vertax diabolo champion and Asian International Diabolo Competition silver medalist. He usually performs on the streets and has also participated in the Changhua Children’s Art Festival and the Street Act Lab’s first and fourth editions. He is now a happy person who creates, lives and treats the audience wholeheartedly. Step. Everything started with a simple love for diabolo; acquired achievements cultivated a fearless enthusiasm. The thunderous applause and recognition lessened the desire to learn. Endless pursuit diminished my original intent. Oncoming setbacks and harsh words from peers created a fragmented me. Still, diabolo always sat beside my feet or behind me quietly, waiting for me to pick it up again. Those best of times were like the countless moments of innocence lost in life. It was diabolo that led me on a lifelong search for simplicity. I pick it up, embrace it, trust it, and let it light up my soul.
11/28(Sat) 11/29(Sun) 18:10-18:35
Ba~HaGa! by DAI Yu-ren, Wu Zheng-ying
Two partners who live together lead ordinary lives. When the two returned home one day, only to find their home like a circus. Through a circus mindset, they re-interpret and re-analyze the big and small things in life. Inject the wildest imagination into the simplest actions, add competitive fun to ordinary life, find chemistry in games, and establish nonverbal expressions through chemistry. Unlimited creativity and varieties instantly transform everyday life into a circus filled with drama ! DAI Yu-ren & WU Zheng-ying are both coming from Taiwan Circus Gate. DAI Yu-ren uses juggling objects and life as inspiration coupled with the "dramatic structure" to resonate with the audience. He connects with people and things in the world in the creative process and prepares a surprise for the audience. WU Zheng-ying comes from Taiwan Circus Gate and loves to observe people and things. He believes that "life is art, and art is life" and regards creation as the accumulation of life. During the creative process, he continually questions himself as he seeks answers. Most of his inspiration comes from experience and intriguing things in life. He expresses his views on the world through creation.
Major Sponsor
● This is an outdoor performance. Free entry, duration is 185 minutes. For more information, please refer to the Weiwuying website.
