\nA Kaleidoscope Circus Life: An Online Party for Future Taiwanese Circus Art
\n\n2021/11/23(Tue)20:00-21:30 (GMT+8)
\nThe Road of Companionship in Asian Circus Production and Curatorship ft. CAN and Friends
2021/11/24(Wed)20:00-21:30 (GMT+8)
\nContemporary Circus: Why is Circus the Antidote To Contemporary Art?
2021/11/25(Thu)20:00-21:30 (GMT+8)
\nThe Circus Pilgrimage: Towards TOHU & Circus Talk
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Lectures on Circus #1
\n\nA Kaleidoscope Circus Life: An Online Party for Future Taiwanese Circus Art
\n\nTime:22nd Nov. (Mon)|20:00-21:30 (GMT+8)
\n\nCome join us for an online party on the opening night of the 2021 Weiwuying Circus Platform "Circus·Life." Tonight, we invite performance groups, artists, and partners to come together for conversations, talks, and secret activities.
\n\nIn a light-hearted and lively fashion, we bring you first-hand information about the evolving Taiwanese circus and a glimpse into the kaleidoscopic world of the circus.
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Speaker:
\n\nHost|KENG Yi-wei Dramaturg of National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying)
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※The talk will be held in Mandarin. English simultaneous interpretation available.
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Lectures on Circus #2
\n\nThe Road of Companionship in Asian Circus Production and Curatorship ft. CAN and Friends
\n\nTime:23rd Nov. (Tue)|20:00-21:30 (GMT+8)
\n\nSince the establishment of the Circus Asia Network (CAN) in 2018, circus has received more attention and formed a new wave in the Asia-Pacific region through active exchanges among its members, which include art institutions, educational organizations and performance groups. This year, five circus producers and curators from different countries in the Asia-Pacific region are invited to share their insights, strategies and practices on artistic accompaniment to stimulate different approaches and possible models for the development of circus art.
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Lectures on Circus #3
\n\nContemporary Circus: Why is Circus the Antidote To Contemporary Art?
\n\nTime:24th Nov. (Wed)|20:00-21:30 (GMT+8)
\n\nWith its hybrid nature, circus has absorbed many art forms in its evolution and inspired other fields as well. From popular culture, modern art to pop music, there is no shortage of circus influence. In conjunction with the release of Wei Wu Ying's first circus publication, Contemporary Circus, Weiwuying's dramaturg, KENG Yi-wei, will discuss with the translator the multiple relationships between circus development and contemporary society, culture and art.
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Lectures on Circus #4
\n\nThe Circus Pilgrimage: Towards TOHU & Circus Talk
\n\nTime:25th Nov. (Thu)|20:00-21:30 (GMT+8)
\n\nNorth America is one of the most prosperous regions for circus development. The Cirque du Soleil in Canada and the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in the United States, which have been performing for many years, are testament to the highly developed circus industry. This year, Weiwuying Circus Platform opens up an international window by inviting TOHU from Canada and Circus Talk, a circus talent database in the United States, to share how they are promoting the development of the circus industry in North America through their respective roles as "an institution of sustained planning and cultivation" and "a digital database and medium."
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\n\nA Kaleidoscope Circus Life: An Online Party for Future Taiwanese Circus Art
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\nThe Road of Companionship in Asian Circus Production and Curatorship ft. CAN and Friends
2021/11/24(Wed)20:00-21:30 (GMT+8)
\n\nContemporary Circus: Why is Circus the Antidote To Contemporary Art?
\n\n2021/11/25(Thu)20:00-21:30 (GMT+8)
\n\nThe Circus Pilgrimage: Towards TOHU & Circus Talk
\n\n\n\nA Kaleidoscopic Circus Life: An Online Party for Future Taiwanese Circus Art
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\n\nKENG Yi-wei|Dramaturg of National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying)
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Photo Credit: CHEN Li-wei
\n\nThe dramaturg of National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying), visiting assistant professor of theatre arts at Taipei National University of the Arts and National Taiwan University of Arts. He was the Artistic Director of Taipei Arts Festival (2012-17). He was awarded the Freundschaftsmedaille and Chevalier dans l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
\n\nKENG Yi-Wei has written the books which include "Tips for Story Writing" "Robert Wilson: The Infinite Power of Lights" "The Short History of Modern Mime". He translates the books from "Letters to Felice, Empty Space", and "Cambridge Introduction to Theatre Studies".
\n\nRecently, he just curated the exhibition "Between Earth and the Sky: The Spiritual State of Our Times" (2020) in Taipei Fine Arts Museum.
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Panelist
\n\nYU Tai-jung|Independent producer and dramaturg
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Photo Credit: Yellow
\n\nAs an independent producer and dramaturg in performing arts fields, Yu holds a MA in theatre arts from Taipei National University of the Arts. Due to his multiple artistic training in the early years, Yu can easily shift his practices and combines them with aesthetics of different genres. He is currently the Vice President of IATC Taiwan branch, Chief Editor of DUMAXI – Taiwanese Circus Media, and the member of Asian Producers' Platform. He was the international affairs manager and resident dramaturg of Formosa Circus Art(FOCA). He represented FOCA in the founding committee of Circus Asia Network since 2018. Yu has participated in following productions of FOCA as a dramaturg: Wukong: Before the Journey to the West, Disappearing Island, Circus As Folks, and Mr. III三III(WIP). He curated and co-organized some of the crucial circus forum in Taiwan, including 2018 Taiwan Contemporary Circus Forum and 2019 Taiwan International Contemporary Circus Forum at National Centre for the Arts - Weiwuying. He has been invited as the facilitator of Artist Residency Project in Weiwuying Circus Platform 2019-2021.
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CHANG Ching-lan | Dean of the Department of Acrobatics, National Taiwan College of Performing Arts
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CHANG Ching-lan started to learn acrobatics at the age of 9 under the tutelage of Mr. Lee Tang-hua. She joined Fu-Hsing Comprehensive Acrobatic Group at the age of 19 as a professional acrobat. CHANG specializes in traditional acrobatics (handstands, plate spinning, contortion, diabolo, Chinese pole). She also introduced aerial silk, aerial hoop, and aerial rope into theatrical performances and education. She is the first to teach aerial stunt dance in Taiwan.
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YU Min-ting|Artist of 2020 Circus Artists Residency
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Born in Fengshan, Kaohsiung, YU was introduced to dance when she lived in a military dependant's village. Now, she works as a performing artist.
\n\nSince performing Last Resort at idance Taipei 2019, YU reflected on her artistic journey. This year, she returned to Fengshan to create Between Crossed Paths and collaborated with artists from different fields. Her recent works include antipode artist YANG Li-wei's Unseen Details, CHEN Yi-en's Tears, Violence, Skin, LIU Chun-te's Ex. Dance Appreciation, and HSU Ruo-yu's The Road Not Taken.
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Yang Yi-chuan|Artistic Director of Taiwan Acrobatic Troupe
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Since his childhood, YANG has been recognized for his juggling performances (ball, hoop, stick, and ball spinning). He has won multiple awards for his extensive experience in choreographing and directing stunts and has participated in many overseas performances and major domestic performances.
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LEE Tsung-hsuan|Artistic Director of Formosa Circus Art
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Born in Taipei, former dancer of Cloud Gate Dance Theatre. Lee is a choreographer, dancer. His works crossover various fields including different artists, groups and the image performance of films and commercials. Lee joined FOCA as artistic director in 2015. He is the choreographer of "Disappearing Island" and the producer of "Moss", both of which are produced in FOCA's 10th anniversary. These two distinctive productions, the former combining atypical installation in site and the latter fusing circus and dance theatre styles, demonstrate his continued leadership in challenging the possibilities of artistic creation at FOCA.
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CHEN Sin-da|President of Taiwan Street Arts and Culture Development Association
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CHEN Sin-da is a Sanxia native and alumnus of the Department of Acrobatics, National Taiwan College of Performing Arts, specializing in handstands and juggling.
\n\nIn 2013, he founded On.P.Young Circus and held multiple roles as managing director, producer, choreographer, and actor.
\n\nIn 2015, he received the Overseas Arts Travel project grant for his circus pilgrimage to Europe.
\n\nIn 2018, he founded Taiwan Street Arts and Culture Development Association (Str. ACD) to promote street arts, institutional reform, and Street Act Lab for artistic project development.
\n\nCHEN has actively performed in Taiwan and Asian festivals and served as a judge, lecturer, and consultant for many counties and cities.
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MEI Chih-ling|Member of Eye Catching Circus and director of #Since1994
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MEI specializes in aerial stunts. In recent years, she has switched from performance to creation, exploring the connections and reflections between gender consciousness and social issues through the unique body language of the circus. In 2019, she directed and performed in the circus production #Since1994, centered on women. MEI will continue to focus on women's issues as the core of her research and creation.
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HUANG Tzu-yi |Artistic Director of Litart
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HUANG is a Taichung native and a circus performer who has been performing locally for nine years. Currently, he is working on a six-year in-situ project. He often combines local features and issues with in-situ creation and mobile theater to create performances in public spaces. He recently completed Return To The Age Of Salon, a site-specific work commissioned by the National Museum of Fine Arts, and Army 27, a creation commissioned by the born2befree Festival.
\n\n\n\nThe Road of Companionship in Asian Circus Production and Curatorship ft. CAN and Friends
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\n\nYU Tai-jung|Taiwan|Independent producer and dramaturg
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Photo Credit: Yellow
\n\nAs an independent producer and dramaturg in performing arts fields, Yu holds a MA in theatre arts from Taipei National University of the Arts. Due to his multiple artistic training in the early years, Yu can easily shift his practices and combines them with aesthetics of different genres. He is currently the Vice President of IATC Taiwan branch, Chief Editor of DUMAXI – Taiwanese Circus Media, and the member of Asian Producers' Platform. He was the international affairs manager and resident dramaturg of Formosa Circus Art(FOCA). He represented FOCA in the founding committee of Circus Asia Network since 2018. Yu has participated in following productions of FOCA as a dramaturg: Wukong: Before the Journey to the West, Disappearing Island, Circus As Folks, and Mr. III三III(WIP). He curated and co-organized some of the crucial circus forum in Taiwan, including 2018 Taiwan Contemporary Circus Forum and 2019 Taiwan International Contemporary Circus Forum at National Centre for the Arts - Weiwuying. He has been invited as the facilitator of Artist Residency Project in Weiwuying Circus Platform 2019-2021.
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Panelists
\n\nMichiko TANAKA|Japan|Director and Founder of Setouchi Circus Factory
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Photo Credit:Setouchi Press
\n\nThe encounter with contemporary circus has completely changed her life in 2004 when she was working for a journal as a event producer in Hokkaido. After invited four European circus companies and gathered 20.000 audience, she quitted the company to be an independent producer, to be an expert of contemporary circus. She moved in Setouchi region, then founded Setouchi Circus Factory in 2012 to nurture a culture of contemporary circus in Japan. The choice of Setouchi was an expression of a cultural decentralization in this country. The axis of Setouchi Circus Factory is; artistic creation, residency programs, artistic training programs, circus education for kids, and networking. These activities are closely related to territories to revitalize and activate them. The recent interest is collaborating with different industrial companies.
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CHO Dong-hee|South Korea|Director of Seoul Street Arts Creation Center
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Dong Hee CHO, Director of Seoul Street Arts Creation Center (SSACC)
\n\nI studied cultural policies and cultural projects in France for 5 years.
\n\nSince 2010, I have worked at Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture that is supported by Seoul Metropolitan City.
\n\nI initiated since 2012 the Seoul Street Arts Creation Center(SSACC),
\n\nKorea's first Street Arts and Circus base camp for production, practice, education and distribution and also initiated Circus Asia Network(CAN).
\n\nFor 20 years, I have worked in the field of Street Arts and Arts in public space running many international projects.
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Shireen ABDULLAH|Singapore| Producer of The Esplanade - Theatre on the Bay
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Shireen is a theatre and dance producer. She works on festivals and productions of varying scales and across a range of contemporary disciplines and forms. She has particular interest in immersive and participatory work, puppetry and circus.
\n\nShe started her arts career with W!LD RICE (Singapore), establishing Project Chilli Padi, the company's education and community outreach division. She went on to produce a number of original musical-comedy productions with Dream Academy (Singapore), featuring artists like the Dim Sum Dollies, Kumar and Hossan Leong.
\n\nOver the years as a producer and arts manager, Shireen has also conceptualised and/or managed school and community programmes, marketing and publicity campaigns, media relations, and film, music and audio production projects.
\n\nShe is currently a full-time producer and programmer with Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay, Singapore, where she works on some of the centre's key festivals and programmes, including Flipside, da:ns festival and The Studios series.
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Xyn FOO|Singapore|Artistic Director of Bornfire Circus
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Xyn is an independent artistic director, producer, and community organizer. She is also the founder of Bornfire Singapore and artistic director for Bornfire Circus.
\n\nShe is a graduate of Lasalle College of the Arts, majoring in contemporary dance, and uses her practices regularly during her journey in the circus. For the past 16 years, she has been driving initiatives such as 11 practitioner-run circus festivals, SPROUTS intensive circus training programs, circus interest groups, two community puppetry festivals, and a series of films screenings.
\n\nShe is currently working closely with Esplanade Theatres by the Bay to develop the contemporary circus scene in Singapore.
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Kate MALONE|Australia|Executive Producer of Cluster Arts
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Kate has spent the past 15 years working across a range of roles within Queensland Arts delivering events, festivals, shows in theatres, tents & open air. As Executive Producer, she has worked extensively around Australia and internationally with Casus Circus, Company 2 (now Chelsea McGuffin & Co), Briefs Factory, Hoopla Clique and Woodford Folk Festival. Kate has served on peer assessment panels for Arts funding, international circus platforms and in 2020, was awarded a Brisbane City Council Artistic Fellowship.
\n\nKate has worked with major festivals around the world and has a vast knowledge of the international circus market. She specialises in Export Market Development Grant opportunities through Austrade.
\n\n\n\nContemporary Circus: Why is Circus the Antidote To Contemporary Art?
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\n\nKENG Yi-wei|Dramaturg of National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying)
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Photo Credit: CHEN Li-wei
\n\nThe dramaturg of National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying), visiting assistant professor of theatre arts at Taipei National University of the Arts and National Taiwan University of Arts. He was the Artistic Director of Taipei Arts Festival (2012-17). He was awarded the Freundschaftsmedaille and Chevalier dans l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
\n\nKENG Yi-Wei has written the books which include "Tips for Story Writing" "Robert Wilson: The Infinite Power of Lights" "The Short History of Modern Mime". He translates the books from "Letters to Felice, Empty Space", and "Cambridge Introduction to Theatre Studies".
\n\nRecently, he just curated the exhibition "Between Earth and the Sky: The Spiritual State of Our Times" (2020) in Taipei Fine Arts Museum.
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Speaker
\n\nYU Tai-jung|Independent producer and dramaturg
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Photo Credit: Yellow
\n\nAs an independent producer and dramaturg in performing arts fields, Yu holds a MA in theatre arts from Taipei National University of the Arts. Due to his multiple artistic training in the early years, Yu can easily shift his practices and combines them with aesthetics of different genres. He is currently the Vice President of IATC Taiwan branch, Chief Editor of DUMAXI – Taiwanese Circus Media, and the member of Asian Producers' Platform. He was the international affairs manager and resident dramaturg of Formosa Circus Art(FOCA). He represented FOCA in the founding committee of Circus Asia Network since 2018. Yu has participated in following productions of FOCA as a dramaturg: Wukong: Before the Journey to the West, Disappearing Island, Circus As Folks, and Mr. III三III(WIP). He curated and co-organized some of the crucial circus forum in Taiwan, including 2018 Taiwan Contemporary Circus Forum and 2019 Taiwan International Contemporary Circus Forum at National Centre for the Arts - Weiwuying. He has been invited as the facilitator of Artist Residency Project in Weiwuying Circus Platform 2019-2021.
\n\n\n\nThe Circus Pilgrimage: Towards TOHU & Circus Talk
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\n\nGwen Hsin-yi Chang | Taiwan | Curator of 2021 Weiwuying Circus Platform
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Photo Credit: Sara LANDO
\n\nCHANG currently resides in Luxembourg. She contributes to the international circus scene and choreographic creation through independent curations, publications, and discussions.
\n\nBetween 2017 and 2021, she was Head of International Partnerships at Weiwuying's Artistic Planning and Production Department specializing in institutional strategic cooperation, curation of Taiwan Dance Platform and Weiwuying Circus Platform, and planning of related cross-disciplinary programs.
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\n\nRuth Juliet WIKLER | Canada | Deputy Director of Programming of TOHU
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Ruth Juliet Wikler is Deputy Director of Programming for Circus for TOHU, North America's premier circus presenting organization. Appointed in June 2019, Ruth directs the MICC (International Contemporary Circus Market); develops circus programming for the Montréal Complètement Cirque Festival as well as TOHU's annual mainstage season; supervises TOHU's training and residency program for circus artists; and oversees TOHU's museum collection of circus history art and objects. Ruth came to TOHU after curating seven seasons of contemporary international theatre and performance for Boom Arts in Portland, Oregon, which she also founded. She previously served as Associate Director of Programs for the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center (The Graduate Center CUNY); in fundraising and administrative capacities for other NYC arts organizations such as Arts International and the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra; and as director and producer for the NYC troupe Cirque Boom, which she founded.
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Stacy CLARK | USA | Chief Executive Officer of Circus Talk
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A former gymnast and professional circus performer, Stacy worked in marketing and communications before leaving it all behind to perform and teach circus around the world on stage, at festivals and on screen.
\n\nStacy is co-founder of Creative Athletic Performance, a consulting service specializing in casting, coaching and creation. She also teaches career development and act development to the next generation of circus artists training at San Diego Circus Center.
\n\nUntil 2020, Stacy was the Director of Casting at Cirque du Soleil, leading a team of international talent scouts and advisors. Stacy's journey at Cirque du Soleil began in 2007 when she joined the Casting department as a Talent Scout, recruiting athletes and circus artists for the company's shows worldwide. In 2011 she became Acrobatic Coach on Amaluna, touring North America.
\n\nStacy holds a Bachelor of Applied Arts from Ryerson University and a Leadership diploma from Concordia University. She is a certified yoga teacher, nutrition coach, NASM performance enhancement specialist and CrossFit level 1 and CrossFit Kids trainer.
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