2021 Dance en Scene - An Initiative of Commissioning New Dance Films in Asia
Dance en Scene is a Dance film project launched by Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay (Singapore), joined hands with Tai Kwun – Centre for Heritage and Arts(Hong kong ), National Taichung Theater , and National Kaohsiung Center for Arts(Weiwuying). This international partnership project dedicates to commission dance films that invite four groups of artists from different cities. Through the dialogue between dance and image, their creations present the artistic responses to the current social climate.
Presenter
National Kaohsiung Centre of the Arts (Weiwuying) (Taiwan)
National Taichung Theater (Taiwan)
Tai Kwun – Centre for Heritage and Arts (Hong Kong)
Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay (Singapore)
Films
After sea-level rise, I… CHOU Shu-yi x William Lϋ x WANG Yu-jun Special Edition
Commissioned by National Kaohsiung Centre of the Arts (Weiwuying) (Taiwan)
Choreographer / Performer｜CHOU Shu-yi
Co-directors｜William LU and CHOU Shu-yi
Music Designer｜WANG Yu-jun
Duration｜20min 21sec
Choreographer, dancer and curator all-in-one, Weiwuying Artist-in-Residence Chou Shu-yi has been exploring relationships between human bodies and the city. As his artistic response to the pandemic, Shu-yi swiftly curated Unfolding Futures – Body Motion Short Film Festival to rethink the ethos of art. After sea-level rise, I… is a piece that Shu-yi created on the roof of the Weiwuying architecture. Through this video, the artist attempts to share his perspectives on the future of climate change and flood –"perhaps one day, this would become the refuge of life." Here we present the special edition of the film.
Transmission: Beginning Step into Walk/Dance Project
Commissioned by National Taichung Theater (Taiwan)
Project Director / Concept / Performer｜YU Yen-fang
Co-creator / Performer｜CHEN Wu-kang
Co-creator / Film Director｜Maurice LAI
Duration｜15 min 30sec
The video documents the Walk/Dance Project by YU Yen-Fang and CHEN Wu-Kang, two iconic middle-aged dance artists in Taiwan, against the backdrop of the island's geography. In the initial stage, Yu and Chen followed the artist KAO Jun-Honn's field survey of the ruined Topa Frontier Lines from the Japanese Occupation to trek into the mountains, transforming the bumpy physicality across the woods and the perceptual impact of the encounter with historical sites into an improvised performance taking place at the dance studio of HORSE in Banqiao, Xinbei City. The Walk/Dance Project, as its title suggests, is about the body walking and dancing across the daily streets and historical sites, presented with possible real-time forms including exhibition, live stream, and live performance. It is the minstrelsy of the body, characterized with a fragile quality of immediacy, makeshift, and ephemerality to manage a direct and yet transparent path as expressed physically.
Terry-fying (work in progress)
Commissioned by Tai Kwun – Centre for Heritage and Arts (Hong Kong)
Concept, Choreography & Performance｜Terry TSANG
Research & Performance｜WONG Yiu Kuen
Cinematography & Editor｜Vincent IP
Duration｜13 min 47sec.
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust……
Nothing can be brought away, only the karma that follows.
This is a presentation of a work-in-progress, inspired from Terry's own work Terry-fy from a year ago which demonstrated his fear of hair. With this research focusing on life and death, he further investigates the impact of space and sound on the human body.
Based on “breaking hell”, a traditional Taoist ritual for the dead, Terry explores the power of the sound of chanting scriptures from this ritual to generate different body textures, or even to travel through different spaces.
The research will continue and eventually develop into a complete live performance.
Rooms, a film by Cinemovement
Commissioned by Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay (Singapore)
Co-directors｜Elysa Wendi and Liao Jiekai
Choreographer / Performer｜Albert TIONG
Duration｜16min 44sec
A programme of Huayi － Chinese Festival of Arts 2021
An introspective dance portrait of a career in movement through rooms—physical and metaphorical—that inhibit and encase, but were also inhabited and embraced. Rooms delves into the soul of Singapore contemporary dancer Albert TIONG, uncovering and revealing the intimate milestones of a key contemporary dance figure's coming of age in Singapore.
For over two decades, Albert TIONG pushed towards his goal of being an eminent dancer, choreographer and educator. Through this journey, he discovers that his personal spaces of safety for his body and mind have protected him as much as moulded him. Behind all the armour, beneath all the layers, who is he really?
Rooms is co-directed by Elysa WENDI and LIAO Jiekai and produced by Jeremy CHUA — three practitioners of Cinemovement, an artist-run platform for artists to explore interdisciplinary propositions between the dance and film practices in various settings.
2021 Dance en Scene - An Initiative of Commissioning New Dance Films in Asia
Dance en Scene is a Dance film project launched by Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay (Singapore), joined hands with Tai Kwun – Centre for Heritage and Arts(Hong kong ), National Taichung Theater , and National Kaohsiung Center for Arts(Weiwuying). This international partnership project dedicates to commission dance films that invite four groups of artists from different cities. Through the dialogue between dance and image, their creations present the artistic responses to the current social climate.
Presenter
National Kaohsiung Centre of the Arts (Weiwuying) (Taiwan)
National Taichung Theater (Taiwan)
Tai Kwun – Centre for Heritage and Arts (Hong Kong)
Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay (Singapore)
Films
After sea-level rise, I… CHOU Shu-yi x William Lϋ x WANG Yu-jun Special Edition
Commissioned by National Kaohsiung Centre of the Arts (Weiwuying) (Taiwan)
Choreographer / Performer｜CHOU Shu-yi
Co-directors｜William LU and CHOU Shu-yi
Music Designer｜WANG Yu-jun
Duration｜20min 21sec
Choreographer, dancer and curator all-in-one, Weiwuying Artist-in-Residence Chou Shu-yi has been exploring relationships between human bodies and the city. As his artistic response to the pandemic, Shu-yi swiftly curated Unfolding Futures – Body Motion Short Film Festival to rethink the ethos of art. After sea-level rise, I… is a piece that Shu-yi created on the roof of the Weiwuying architecture. Through this video, the artist attempts to share his perspectives on the future of climate change and flood –"perhaps one day, this would become the refuge of life." Here we present the special edition of the film.
Transmission: Beginning Step into Walk/Dance Project
Commissioned by National Taichung Theater (Taiwan)
Project Director / Concept / Performer｜YU Yen-fang
Co-creator / Performer｜CHEN Wu-kang
Co-creator / Film Director｜Maurice LAI
Duration｜15 min 30sec
The video documents the Walk/Dance Project by YU Yen-Fang and CHEN Wu-Kang, two iconic middle-aged dance artists in Taiwan, against the backdrop of the island's geography. In the initial stage, Yu and Chen followed the artist KAO Jun-Honn's field survey of the ruined Topa Frontier Lines from the Japanese Occupation to trek into the mountains, transforming the bumpy physicality across the woods and the perceptual impact of the encounter with historical sites into an improvised performance taking place at the dance studio of HORSE in Banqiao, Xinbei City. The Walk/Dance Project, as its title suggests, is about the body walking and dancing across the daily streets and historical sites, presented with possible real-time forms including exhibition, live stream, and live performance. It is the minstrelsy of the body, characterized with a fragile quality of immediacy, makeshift, and ephemerality to manage a direct and yet transparent path as expressed physically.
Terry-fying (work in progress)
Commissioned by Tai Kwun – Centre for Heritage and Arts (Hong Kong)
Concept, Choreography & Performance｜Terry TSANG
Research & Performance｜WONG Yiu Kuen
Cinematography & Editor｜Vincent IP
Duration｜13 min 47sec.
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust……
Nothing can be brought away, only the karma that follows.
This is a presentation of a work-in-progress, inspired from Terry's own work Terry-fy from a year ago which demonstrated his fear of hair. With this research focusing on life and death, he further investigates the impact of space and sound on the human body.
Based on “breaking hell”, a traditional Taoist ritual for the dead, Terry explores the power of the sound of chanting scriptures from this ritual to generate different body textures, or even to travel through different spaces.
The research will continue and eventually develop into a complete live performance.
Rooms, a film by Cinemovement
Commissioned by Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay (Singapore)
Co-directors｜Elysa Wendi and Liao Jiekai
Choreographer / Performer｜Albert TIONG
Duration｜16min 44sec
A programme of Huayi － Chinese Festival of Arts 2021
An introspective dance portrait of a career in movement through rooms—physical and metaphorical—that inhibit and encase, but were also inhabited and embraced. Rooms delves into the soul of Singapore contemporary dancer Albert TIONG, uncovering and revealing the intimate milestones of a key contemporary dance figure's coming of age in Singapore.
For over two decades, Albert TIONG pushed towards his goal of being an eminent dancer, choreographer and educator. Through this journey, he discovers that his personal spaces of safety for his body and mind have protected him as much as moulded him. Behind all the armour, beneath all the layers, who is he really?
Rooms is co-directed by Elysa WENDI and LIAO Jiekai and produced by Jeremy CHUA — three practitioners of Cinemovement, an artist-run platform for artists to explore interdisciplinary propositions between the dance and film practices in various settings.
