【2020 Taiwan Dance Platform】"Encounter．Dance Film" Exhibition
※The exhibition closing date has been extended to January 3, 2021(Sun) (GMT+8)。
Taiwan Dance Platform (TDP) continues to promote dance films. This year, TDP presents the Encounter．Dance Film Exhibition inviting spectators to appreciate dance outside the theater's confines. The exhibition features filmic pieces from Taiwan, France and Spain sharing stories about life in dance through camera movements.
Films
《TPE-886》CHANG Ching-ju, WU Jia-jing, Liam CHENG, LEE Yi-chi
Taiwan |2018 | 4'41min
In Taiwan, scooters are easily seen on the road as the primary form of transportation. It has been a real symbol of the local culture and customs.
When riding, scooters are synchronized with the riders as an extension of human body, which brings vivid sensations of speed, space and flowing scenery.
The moment we squeezed between cars and buses or facing the horns of a dilemma are memorized physically and mentally. All of the experiences accumulate indescribable feelings which not only in body sensing but our inner consciousness may reflect our social status in the world.
Production Team
Directo｜CHANG Ching-ju, WU Jia-jing, Liam CHENG, WANG Yan-dun, LEE Yi-chi, CHANG Yun-er
Cinematographer｜CHANG Hao-jan
Assistant Cameraman｜CHEN Yu-jen
Editor｜Sigo TSENG
Performers｜YANG Ya-chun, LEE Yi- chi, CHEN Ciou-ye, CHUNG Chia-lin, WANG Yan-dun, NING Chi, CHEN Ting- chun
Music｜Menuett ATONAL
Composer｜Syuwa NAGAIL
Covered By｜KUO Pin-yi
《Siamoise》HSU Hai-wen
France l 2018 l 13'17min
Ocean, water ripple, sound, siamese search a unity. A dancer goes on a journey in search of a body vanished from the radars of consciousness, seeking it’s faded memory. Under the broken walls and ruins, raises the misty words of the body.
Production Team
Director, Screenwriter, Performer｜HSU Hai-wen
Assistant Director｜TSAI Zhi-jin
Therapist｜Delphine GALIEN, Ana DCLAPERRIÈRE
Cinematographe｜Hélène MOTTEAU
Assistant Camera｜Arthur ANGER
Gaffer｜Thibault CONDY
Sound｜Jérôme PETIT
Make-Up｜Sabrina Turienzo NATAL
Editor｜HSU Hai- wen
Color Correction｜Jérémy CARTERON, HUANG Pang-chuan
Sound Editor｜Rémi MENCUCCI
Sound Mixer｜Yannick DELMAIRE
Music｜Thomas FOGUENNE
《Weiwuying International Partnership Project- Museum of Human E-motion》Maurice LAI Yu-man
Taiwan l 2020 l MOV l Colour l 10'43min
The most important thing in contemporary art is not the result, but the idea behind it and the creative process. Being able to live with four artists in Kaohsiung, observe on their creative process is my blessing as an artist. I hope that through this short film, you can discover how artists absorbed the nutrients of art from Kaohsiung and Weiwuying, and evolved into their works.
《Fox Trott》Nina CHALOT, Romain DELAMART
France l 2020 l MOV l Colour l 2'48min
With Fox Trott, they wish to dance with free-to-use electric scooters. To dance for Théâtre de la Ville, in the heart of Paris. To dance as a group of ten, at ten km/ hour for ten minutes, the average time of a ride. To dance together as though one were alone. To dance constrained. To dance without moving. To allude to the invisible ballet of ‘juicers’ harvesting and recharging these objects that are incessantly abandoned: those that are piled up, moved and replaced. Those that work. Those that the system drives on.
Production Team
Performer｜Nina Chalot, Romain Delamart, Gabriel Di Battista, Flora Fixy, Flora Langlois, Rémi Nguyen, Yun Li
【Screening Dance Collective】Motion Body beyond Island Scnenery
《A Fading Flower》Maurice LAI Yu-man
Taiwan l 2020 l 5min
Are we unable to go back?
《Breaking Waves》William LÜ
Taiwan l 2020 l 5min
Directed by William LÜ, is a short dance film featuring Dancecology's choreographer/director PENG Hsiao-yin and dancer CHEN Fu-rong. It was shot in Taitung, Taiwan. It conceptually explores the idea of one’s persistence, power, and freedom.
《Planting the Cycle of Pure》PENG Hsiao-yin
Taiwan l 2020 l 7'40min
To flower, to grass, to field, to tree, to road and to human.
Planting the Cycle of Pure was shot at Pure Dream Garden, Xichou, Changhua, the private forest of poet Wu Sheng. Inspired by Wu's action: planting trees for over 30 years, the director Peng Hsiao-yin created the pure cycle of time between present and future, before and after the "planting".
The three performers symbolized the interactions of sunlight, fertile soil and the seed, and the rendezvous road of male, female and child.
《Like Grass》HUANG Lo-ya
Taiwan l 2020 l 3'23min
A middle-aged woman reminiscing about her younger self sways like green grass in the wind on a tranquil afternoon.
《The Gift》Aiko CHENG
Taiwan l 2020 l 2'50min
With accumulated impurity of city, to Xizhou Township we were. At the moment of humbleness on purpose, at last perceptualizing the youthfully waving nature between rays of truth.
Transformed by the Goal of picture production, actively devoured bodies into attitudes of raising, spreading, caring and harvesting as farmer, in order to gain fulfilling dine.
How could the Origin to all birth keeps offering unselfishly, while humbleness is considered virtue on various paths?
《Swim upstream》Ann CHIU
Taiwan l 2020 l 3'40min
Some people said a woman is an ocean. No matter how far she can swim, she's going to return the starting point eventually. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, one day will blend to the ocean. Freedom and bonds at the same time, Reincarnating all over again.
【Freedom of Movement】A Dance Journey across Asia and Europe
In a collaboration between the Taiwan Dance Platform, the Chiayi Intertidal Dance Festival, and the Madrid Choreography Platform, young Spanish and Taiwanese choreographers are invited by us to use the Weiwuying One Minute VR Stage app to film 360-degree panoramic videos of their dances. These recordings will be used to create an astounding on-stage experience at Weiwuying. Taiwanese choreographers are invited to create their dance films in Chiayi and exhibit in Madrid. Through simultaneous screenings across three major platforms in three cities and two countries, watch how these dancers use expressive body movements and dynamic energy to convey the resilience of life in the midst of the pandemic. As these artists continue their creative pursuits in the physical world, let us enjoy an online dance journey that connects Kaohsiung, Chiayi, and Madrid.
《Fragment》LIN Yen-ching
Taiwan l 2020 l 7'56min
In Sight
Surrounds
Intricate chaos of the past lgnorant
Innocent Waiting
Touching
The unkown future
The Silence
…
《Dancing Girls in Chiayi–Dance Where?》SU Pin-wen, Kua Bo Dance Theatre
Taiwan l 2020 l 10'36min
After completing the third A Dance a Day summer camp in 2020,Kua Bo Dance Theatre began their fieldwork for Dancing Girls in Chiayi–Dance Where? to research local dance in Chiayi County. They presented their findings in a film documenting the people involved and when and where the dance took place. After completing their fieldwork, they hope that their residency and the artistic value of A Dance a Day may complement each other and prosper.
This project is subsidized by Chiayi Performing Arts Center´s 2020 The Show Must Go On project.
《Awaiting》CHOU Shu-yi, CHOU Yen-hsieh
Taiwan l 2019 l 3’29min
In Tainan Park, there is a small arch bridge connecting Swallow Lake with the ancient channel of Wenyuan Creek. Before 1917, when it was yet a park, ship used to travel through the Taijiang area of business, Gradually, the river channel changed. Constructions were added. After the area became a park, the bridge was built. No ship has sailed through the region in the past century. Although the arch bridge underwent renovations, it still witnessed the history of time. The bridge stands there as if waiting. When you cross the bridge, you can see Swallow Lake; you can see the sunset if you look back. Day after day, before all is lost…
《Memoriseof the Tenjo》Jessica Wan-yu LIN
Taiwan l 2012 l 2'45min
Late 2012. An improvisation with Dawang Yinfan HUANG, at the Xining Building. A special event for TPE-Tics. Music by ZHANG You-sheng.
《Drifting Dust》CHIU Cheuk-lam, TIEN Hsiao-tzu
Taiwan l 2020 l 11'00min
First edition in 2014 Second edition in 2020
This work mainly elaborates on those uncertain and helpless moments occasionally
happened during the continuing search for the meaning and the position in the journey of the life. Those moments for me are like floating in the infinite ocean, feeling rocked, and seeing no shore. When I deeply feel the sense of floating, often because I cannot find the answer or cannot catch something certain at the moment. Hence, I feel myself like drifting in life. Then the feeling of "pulling", "angry", "contradictory", and "disturbing" cover me at the moments. Therefore, those feelings and emotions stimulate me on the movement to find and develop physical dynamic response. Water-related scenes are largely used in the picture. Also, through the montage editing techniques, we try to depict the psychological state of "drifting".
Production Team
Director｜CHIU Cheuk-lam
Choreographer｜TIEN Hsiao-tzu
Camera｜CHIU Cheuk-lam, LAU wan
Editor｜CHIU Cheuk-lam
Music｜WANG Yu-jun
Dancer｜YANG Ya-chun, PAN Bo-ling, HUNG Pei-yu
#2020臺灣舞蹈平台展覽
Co-organizer
《Siamoise》Co-organize with Kaohsiung Film Archive
《Fox Trott》In collaboration with Théâtre de la Ville de Paris, France DANSE ELARGIE /EXPANDED DANCE
【Freedom of Movement】Co-organize with Ministry of Culture, Plataforma Coreográfica A.C., Chaiyi Performing Arts Center and Oficina Económica y Cultural de Taipéi
【2020 Taiwan Dance Platform】"Encounter．Dance Film" Exhibition
※The exhibition closing date has been extended to January 3, 2021(Sun) (GMT+8)。
Taiwan Dance Platform (TDP) continues to promote dance films. This year, TDP presents the Encounter．Dance Film Exhibition inviting spectators to appreciate dance outside the theater's confines. The exhibition features filmic pieces from Taiwan, France and Spain sharing stories about life in dance through camera movements.
Films
《TPE-886》CHANG Ching-ju, WU Jia-jing, Liam CHENG, LEE Yi-chi
Taiwan |2018 | 4'41min
In Taiwan, scooters are easily seen on the road as the primary form of transportation. It has been a real symbol of the local culture and customs.
When riding, scooters are synchronized with the riders as an extension of human body, which brings vivid sensations of speed, space and flowing scenery.
The moment we squeezed between cars and buses or facing the horns of a dilemma are memorized physically and mentally. All of the experiences accumulate indescribable feelings which not only in body sensing but our inner consciousness may reflect our social status in the world.
Production Team
Directo｜CHANG Ching-ju, WU Jia-jing, Liam CHENG, WANG Yan-dun, LEE Yi-chi, CHANG Yun-er
Cinematographer｜CHANG Hao-jan
Assistant Cameraman｜CHEN Yu-jen
Editor｜Sigo TSENG
Performers｜YANG Ya-chun, LEE Yi- chi, CHEN Ciou-ye, CHUNG Chia-lin, WANG Yan-dun, NING Chi, CHEN Ting- chun
Music｜Menuett ATONAL
Composer｜Syuwa NAGAIL
Covered By｜KUO Pin-yi
《Siamoise》HSU Hai-wen
France l 2018 l 13'17min
Ocean, water ripple, sound, siamese search a unity. A dancer goes on a journey in search of a body vanished from the radars of consciousness, seeking it’s faded memory. Under the broken walls and ruins, raises the misty words of the body.
Production Team
Director, Screenwriter, Performer｜HSU Hai-wen
Assistant Director｜TSAI Zhi-jin
Therapist｜Delphine GALIEN, Ana DCLAPERRIÈRE
Cinematographe｜Hélène MOTTEAU
Assistant Camera｜Arthur ANGER
Gaffer｜Thibault CONDY
Sound｜Jérôme PETIT
Make-Up｜Sabrina Turienzo NATAL
Editor｜HSU Hai- wen
Color Correction｜Jérémy CARTERON, HUANG Pang-chuan
Sound Editor｜Rémi MENCUCCI
Sound Mixer｜Yannick DELMAIRE
Music｜Thomas FOGUENNE
《Weiwuying International Partnership Project- Museum of Human E-motion》Maurice LAI Yu-man
Taiwan l 2020 l MOV l Colour l 10'43min
The most important thing in contemporary art is not the result, but the idea behind it and the creative process. Being able to live with four artists in Kaohsiung, observe on their creative process is my blessing as an artist. I hope that through this short film, you can discover how artists absorbed the nutrients of art from Kaohsiung and Weiwuying, and evolved into their works.
《Fox Trott》Nina CHALOT, Romain DELAMART
France l 2020 l MOV l Colour l 2'48min
With Fox Trott, they wish to dance with free-to-use electric scooters. To dance for Théâtre de la Ville, in the heart of Paris. To dance as a group of ten, at ten km/ hour for ten minutes, the average time of a ride. To dance together as though one were alone. To dance constrained. To dance without moving. To allude to the invisible ballet of ‘juicers’ harvesting and recharging these objects that are incessantly abandoned: those that are piled up, moved and replaced. Those that work. Those that the system drives on.
Production Team
Performer｜Nina Chalot, Romain Delamart, Gabriel Di Battista, Flora Fixy, Flora Langlois, Rémi Nguyen, Yun Li
【Screening Dance Collective】Motion Body beyond Island Scnenery
《A Fading Flower》Maurice LAI Yu-man
Taiwan l 2020 l 5min
Are we unable to go back?
《Breaking Waves》William LÜ
Taiwan l 2020 l 5min
Directed by William LÜ, is a short dance film featuring Dancecology's choreographer/director PENG Hsiao-yin and dancer CHEN Fu-rong. It was shot in Taitung, Taiwan. It conceptually explores the idea of one’s persistence, power, and freedom.
《Planting the Cycle of Pure》PENG Hsiao-yin
Taiwan l 2020 l 7'40min
To flower, to grass, to field, to tree, to road and to human.
Planting the Cycle of Pure was shot at Pure Dream Garden, Xichou, Changhua, the private forest of poet Wu Sheng. Inspired by Wu's action: planting trees for over 30 years, the director Peng Hsiao-yin created the pure cycle of time between present and future, before and after the "planting".
The three performers symbolized the interactions of sunlight, fertile soil and the seed, and the rendezvous road of male, female and child.
《Like Grass》HUANG Lo-ya
Taiwan l 2020 l 3'23min
A middle-aged woman reminiscing about her younger self sways like green grass in the wind on a tranquil afternoon.
《The Gift》Aiko CHENG
Taiwan l 2020 l 2'50min
With accumulated impurity of city, to Xizhou Township we were. At the moment of humbleness on purpose, at last perceptualizing the youthfully waving nature between rays of truth.
Transformed by the Goal of picture production, actively devoured bodies into attitudes of raising, spreading, caring and harvesting as farmer, in order to gain fulfilling dine.
How could the Origin to all birth keeps offering unselfishly, while humbleness is considered virtue on various paths?
《Swim upstream》Ann CHIU
Taiwan l 2020 l 3'40min
Some people said a woman is an ocean. No matter how far she can swim, she's going to return the starting point eventually. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, one day will blend to the ocean. Freedom and bonds at the same time, Reincarnating all over again.
【Freedom of Movement】A Dance Journey across Asia and Europe
In a collaboration between the Taiwan Dance Platform, the Chiayi Intertidal Dance Festival, and the Madrid Choreography Platform, young Spanish and Taiwanese choreographers are invited by us to use the Weiwuying One Minute VR Stage app to film 360-degree panoramic videos of their dances. These recordings will be used to create an astounding on-stage experience at Weiwuying. Taiwanese choreographers are invited to create their dance films in Chiayi and exhibit in Madrid. Through simultaneous screenings across three major platforms in three cities and two countries, watch how these dancers use expressive body movements and dynamic energy to convey the resilience of life in the midst of the pandemic. As these artists continue their creative pursuits in the physical world, let us enjoy an online dance journey that connects Kaohsiung, Chiayi, and Madrid.
《Fragment》LIN Yen-ching
Taiwan l 2020 l 7'56min
In Sight
Surrounds
Intricate chaos of the past lgnorant
Innocent Waiting
Touching
The unkown future
The Silence
…
《Dancing Girls in Chiayi–Dance Where?》SU Pin-wen, Kua Bo Dance Theatre
Taiwan l 2020 l 10'36min
After completing the third A Dance a Day summer camp in 2020,Kua Bo Dance Theatre began their fieldwork for Dancing Girls in Chiayi–Dance Where? to research local dance in Chiayi County. They presented their findings in a film documenting the people involved and when and where the dance took place. After completing their fieldwork, they hope that their residency and the artistic value of A Dance a Day may complement each other and prosper.
This project is subsidized by Chiayi Performing Arts Center´s 2020 The Show Must Go On project.
《Awaiting》CHOU Shu-yi, CHOU Yen-hsieh
Taiwan l 2019 l 3’29min
In Tainan Park, there is a small arch bridge connecting Swallow Lake with the ancient channel of Wenyuan Creek. Before 1917, when it was yet a park, ship used to travel through the Taijiang area of business, Gradually, the river channel changed. Constructions were added. After the area became a park, the bridge was built. No ship has sailed through the region in the past century. Although the arch bridge underwent renovations, it still witnessed the history of time. The bridge stands there as if waiting. When you cross the bridge, you can see Swallow Lake; you can see the sunset if you look back. Day after day, before all is lost…
《Memoriseof the Tenjo》Jessica Wan-yu LIN
Taiwan l 2012 l 2'45min
Late 2012. An improvisation with Dawang Yinfan HUANG, at the Xining Building. A special event for TPE-Tics. Music by ZHANG You-sheng.
《Drifting Dust》CHIU Cheuk-lam, TIEN Hsiao-tzu
Taiwan l 2020 l 11'00min
First edition in 2014 Second edition in 2020
This work mainly elaborates on those uncertain and helpless moments occasionally
happened during the continuing search for the meaning and the position in the journey of the life. Those moments for me are like floating in the infinite ocean, feeling rocked, and seeing no shore. When I deeply feel the sense of floating, often because I cannot find the answer or cannot catch something certain at the moment. Hence, I feel myself like drifting in life. Then the feeling of "pulling", "angry", "contradictory", and "disturbing" cover me at the moments. Therefore, those feelings and emotions stimulate me on the movement to find and develop physical dynamic response. Water-related scenes are largely used in the picture. Also, through the montage editing techniques, we try to depict the psychological state of "drifting".
Production Team
Director｜CHIU Cheuk-lam
Choreographer｜TIEN Hsiao-tzu
Camera｜CHIU Cheuk-lam, LAU wan
Editor｜CHIU Cheuk-lam
Music｜WANG Yu-jun
Dancer｜YANG Ya-chun, PAN Bo-ling, HUNG Pei-yu
#2020臺灣舞蹈平台展覽
Co-organizer
《Siamoise》Co-organize with Kaohsiung Film Archive
《Fox Trott》In collaboration with Théâtre de la Ville de Paris, France DANSE ELARGIE /EXPANDED DANCE
【Freedom of Movement】Co-organize with Ministry of Culture, Plataforma Coreográfica A.C., Chaiyi Performing Arts Center and Oficina Económica y Cultural de Taipéi
