【2020 Weiwuying Circus Platform】Open Studio X Circus Artists Residency
Open Studio - Imagine Creation
The circus acts onstage are bright and brilliant. However, few people realize the performers' intense passion for physical techniques, continuous self-training, and hard work invested. This year, the 5th Weiwuying Circus Platform has launched Open Studio, which will present circus productions that are rarely open to the outside world and are still in the rehearsal process. The audience will experience the artists' perspective, broaden their imaginations of creation, and unveil the mystery of circus art.
Open Studio invites the Department of Acrobatics, National Taiwan College of Performing Arts, to participate in an in-situ learning opportunity. Students will present their work-in-progress with local and foreign artists of the Weiwuying Circus Platform and exchange with them. The event also invites fellow artists of the 2nd Circus Asia Residency to personally share the challenges that circus arts face in the wake of the pandemic.
Circus Artists Residency
Guide
Yen-fang YU |
Yen-fang YU is a choreographer, performer, improviser, and dance instructor from Taiwan. Since 2001, YU has choreographed, collaborated and performed with companies and individual performing artists in Taiwan, the U.S. and Europe. In 2011, YU returned to her home country, Taiwan, to continue exploration as a performing artist. In 2013, she initiated a research project entitled: Project MuoMuo. With a collective of young, emerging artists from multi-disciplinary backgrounds, they work to develop an artistic voice that is poetic, specific, and accessible to the audience from her home country and abroad. In 2020, her solo piece Propositions on Disappearance lll was nominated by the Taishin Annual Grand Prize.
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Tai-Jung YU |
As the International Affairs Manager and Resident Dramaturge of Formosa Circus Art (FOCA), YU Tai-jung majored theatre theory in the Department of Theatre Arts, Taipei National University of the Arts. He's the current Vice Chief Director of International Association of Theatre Critics, Taiwan Branch. YU represents FOCA as one of the founding committees of Circus Asia Network(CAN). He contributes to cultivate the visibility and publicity of contemporary circus art. He curated the first ever Contemporary Circus Forum in Taiwan in 2018, and collaborated with Weiwuying for the second edition in 2019. He's the Chief Editor of DU MA XI - a seasonal Taiwan Circus Media since 2020.
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Circus Artist |
SUN Cheng-hsueh |
Born in Tainan in 1996. SUN Cheng-hsueh stepped into the performance art due to drum music since four years old, and growing up with drum music, drama, dance and acrobatics. 0471 Acro Physical Theatre was established in 2020, and now is one of the few Taiwanese creators specializing in duo acrobatics and acrobatics theatre. Having worked with Ten Drum Art Percussion Group, Fervor Taiwan, Diabolo Dance Theatre, Neo-Classical Dance Company, and serves as 0471 Acro Physical Theatre director presently. Works include: Hey Now, Disappearing, Sunward, Adam & Eve, Miscellaneous Thoughts, “Am I Beautiful?”, Rainman, and Seasons.
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HSIA Ling |
Born in Nantou in 1996. HSIA Ling entered the National Taiwan College of Performing Arts to study acrobatics since eleven years old and majored in duo acro, contortion, aerial hoop. Gymnastics, dance, Chinese martial arts are also learned as well. Now serves as a member of 0471 Acro Physical Theatre, specializing in duo acro performance. Having worked with Diabolo Dance Theatre, Thunar circus, New Image Theatre Group, Six Arts Theatre.
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TSAI Hung-yi |
Born in 2000, TSAI Hung-yi studied at National Taiwan College of Performing Arts since childhood, specializing in the handstand, aerial straps, rolling, juggling, slackwire, and lion dance. His performance experience includes the 2017 Summer Universiade the opening ceremony, Good Play's Make a Mountain Out of a Molehill, Chio-Tian Folk Drums & Arts Troupe's Eight Generals performer at the Taichung Flower Expo opening ceremony, the 2019 National Games opening ceremony, Eye Catching Circus's Endless, and Lion Dance, which won the Europeenne de Spectacles Award at the 2020 Festival Mondial du Cirque de Demain.
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YANG Li-wei |
Graduated from NTCPA, YANG Li-wei had started learning performing at 10 years old and devoted herself to antipode for almost 20 years. Being invited to Chuncheon Arts Festival and Ansan Street Arts Festival in Korea, Roztoc Fest in Czech Republic, and Formula 1 in Singapore, Li-wei won the first place of 2019 National Street Artist Contest in Taiwan, thus gaining the reputation as "Miss Antipode".
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Dancer |
YU Min-ting |
Born in Fengshan, Kaohsiung, YU is a fresh graduate, a performer and a creator passionate about dance. She specializes in improvised dance and connects creation to daily life. She once presented her solo work Worst Case Scenario at i-dance Taipei held by Ku & Dancers. Her choreography works include GIANT BLUE DAY and Body during Sickness. She has participated in performances at the Taipei Fringe Festival, Want to Dance Festival and Tua-Tiu-Tiann International Festival of Arts.
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Mountains and Seas. Brotherhood. Hackers |
Department of Acrobatics, National Taiwan College of Performing Arts |
The Department of Acrobatics aims to promote Taiwan's traditional acrobatics while covering dance, music, sports, and theatrical technology. Since its establishment, the department has trained many outstanding folk acrobatics and performing arts professionals. In 2019, the department further signed a memorandum of cooperation with Weiwuying and CNAC to foster more international circus artists and support local performers' career development in the long run. The Department of Acrobatics presents a brand new work in progress, inspired by ancient Chinese literary classics, connecting myths of Classic of Mountains and Seas to contemporary society. In the presence of truth/falsehood, virtuality/reality, a group of hackers attempt to navigate through time and space. |
Production Team
Director|SUN Li-tsui
Stunt coach|CHANG Ching-lan
Rehearsal Assistant|LI Chin-an, LIN Hsin-yi
Musicians|Franck Benede (French cellist, Baroque expert, world minority musicologist), Grant Bailey (Welsh-Australian, percussionist, didgeridoo player)
Performers
WU Wei-hsin, LI Rui-hung, SUN Wei-yueh, HUANG Yi-chen, LI-Yi-ling, LIN Chu-hsuan, WANG Ro-yi, SUN Ke-en, KANG Yuan-chen, CHANG Shu-huan , HUANG Yi-hsiang, LIU Fang-lun, HSIEH Chih-ying, TANG Chieh-hsin, CHIANG Yi-hsin.
Sponsor
【2020 Weiwuying Circus Platform】Open Studio X Circus Artists Residency
Open Studio - Imagine Creation
The circus acts onstage are bright and brilliant. However, few people realize the performers' intense passion for physical techniques, continuous self-training, and hard work invested. This year, the 5th Weiwuying Circus Platform has launched Open Studio, which will present circus productions that are rarely open to the outside world and are still in the rehearsal process. The audience will experience the artists' perspective, broaden their imaginations of creation, and unveil the mystery of circus art.
Open Studio invites the Department of Acrobatics, National Taiwan College of Performing Arts, to participate in an in-situ learning opportunity. Students will present their work-in-progress with local and foreign artists of the Weiwuying Circus Platform and exchange with them. The event also invites fellow artists of the 2nd Circus Asia Residency to personally share the challenges that circus arts face in the wake of the pandemic.
Circus Artists Residency
Guide
Yen-fang YU |
Yen-fang YU is a choreographer, performer, improviser, and dance instructor from Taiwan. Since 2001, YU has choreographed, collaborated and performed with companies and individual performing artists in Taiwan, the U.S. and Europe. In 2011, YU returned to her home country, Taiwan, to continue exploration as a performing artist. In 2013, she initiated a research project entitled: Project MuoMuo. With a collective of young, emerging artists from multi-disciplinary backgrounds, they work to develop an artistic voice that is poetic, specific, and accessible to the audience from her home country and abroad. In 2020, her solo piece Propositions on Disappearance lll was nominated by the Taishin Annual Grand Prize.
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Tai-Jung YU |
As the International Affairs Manager and Resident Dramaturge of Formosa Circus Art (FOCA), YU Tai-jung majored theatre theory in the Department of Theatre Arts, Taipei National University of the Arts. He's the current Vice Chief Director of International Association of Theatre Critics, Taiwan Branch. YU represents FOCA as one of the founding committees of Circus Asia Network(CAN). He contributes to cultivate the visibility and publicity of contemporary circus art. He curated the first ever Contemporary Circus Forum in Taiwan in 2018, and collaborated with Weiwuying for the second edition in 2019. He's the Chief Editor of DU MA XI - a seasonal Taiwan Circus Media since 2020.
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Circus Artist |
SUN Cheng-hsueh |
Born in Tainan in 1996. SUN Cheng-hsueh stepped into the performance art due to drum music since four years old, and growing up with drum music, drama, dance and acrobatics. 0471 Acro Physical Theatre was established in 2020, and now is one of the few Taiwanese creators specializing in duo acrobatics and acrobatics theatre. Having worked with Ten Drum Art Percussion Group, Fervor Taiwan, Diabolo Dance Theatre, Neo-Classical Dance Company, and serves as 0471 Acro Physical Theatre director presently. Works include: Hey Now, Disappearing, Sunward, Adam & Eve, Miscellaneous Thoughts, “Am I Beautiful?”, Rainman, and Seasons.
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HSIA Ling |
Born in Nantou in 1996. HSIA Ling entered the National Taiwan College of Performing Arts to study acrobatics since eleven years old and majored in duo acro, contortion, aerial hoop. Gymnastics, dance, Chinese martial arts are also learned as well. Now serves as a member of 0471 Acro Physical Theatre, specializing in duo acro performance. Having worked with Diabolo Dance Theatre, Thunar circus, New Image Theatre Group, Six Arts Theatre.
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TSAI Hung-yi |
Born in 2000, TSAI Hung-yi studied at National Taiwan College of Performing Arts since childhood, specializing in the handstand, aerial straps, rolling, juggling, slackwire, and lion dance. His performance experience includes the 2017 Summer Universiade the opening ceremony, Good Play's Make a Mountain Out of a Molehill, Chio-Tian Folk Drums & Arts Troupe's Eight Generals performer at the Taichung Flower Expo opening ceremony, the 2019 National Games opening ceremony, Eye Catching Circus's Endless, and Lion Dance, which won the Europeenne de Spectacles Award at the 2020 Festival Mondial du Cirque de Demain.
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YANG Li-wei |
Graduated from NTCPA, YANG Li-wei had started learning performing at 10 years old and devoted herself to antipode for almost 20 years. Being invited to Chuncheon Arts Festival and Ansan Street Arts Festival in Korea, Roztoc Fest in Czech Republic, and Formula 1 in Singapore, Li-wei won the first place of 2019 National Street Artist Contest in Taiwan, thus gaining the reputation as "Miss Antipode".
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Dancer |
YU Min-ting |
Born in Fengshan, Kaohsiung, YU is a fresh graduate, a performer and a creator passionate about dance. She specializes in improvised dance and connects creation to daily life. She once presented her solo work Worst Case Scenario at i-dance Taipei held by Ku & Dancers. Her choreography works include GIANT BLUE DAY and Body during Sickness. She has participated in performances at the Taipei Fringe Festival, Want to Dance Festival and Tua-Tiu-Tiann International Festival of Arts.
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Mountains and Seas. Brotherhood. Hackers |
Department of Acrobatics, National Taiwan College of Performing Arts |
The Department of Acrobatics aims to promote Taiwan's traditional acrobatics while covering dance, music, sports, and theatrical technology. Since its establishment, the department has trained many outstanding folk acrobatics and performing arts professionals. In 2019, the department further signed a memorandum of cooperation with Weiwuying and CNAC to foster more international circus artists and support local performers' career development in the long run. The Department of Acrobatics presents a brand new work in progress, inspired by ancient Chinese literary classics, connecting myths of Classic of Mountains and Seas to contemporary society. In the presence of truth/falsehood, virtuality/reality, a group of hackers attempt to navigate through time and space. |
Production Team
Director|SUN Li-tsui
Stunt coach|CHANG Ching-lan
Rehearsal Assistant|LI Chin-an, LIN Hsin-yi
Musicians|Franck Benede (French cellist, Baroque expert, world minority musicologist), Grant Bailey (Welsh-Australian, percussionist, didgeridoo player)
Performers
WU Wei-hsin, LI Rui-hung, SUN Wei-yueh, HUANG Yi-chen, LI-Yi-ling, LIN Chu-hsuan, WANG Ro-yi, SUN Ke-en, KANG Yuan-chen, CHANG Shu-huan , HUANG Yi-hsiang, LIU Fang-lun, HSIEH Chih-ying, TANG Chieh-hsin, CHIANG Yi-hsin.
Sponsor