【2022 Taiwan Dance Platform】Their Stories - Daylight
Their Stories-Daylight is a work in which drama and bodily expression abound. Tainan-born choreographer LAI Tsui-shuang collaborated with 11 amateur performers to put together this work using both representational and non-representational approaches that mirror the vulnerabilities and fragility of different periods of the performers' lives and support the process of self-exploration. Fragments of stories are connected through the interweaving of time and space, while the music is alternately melancholic, soft, dark, harsh, poetic, or introspective in a reflection of the storyline and the performers’ personality traits. The music parallels the highs and lows of the stories, adding a deeper layer of interpretation.
The performers of Their Stories-Daylight have been invited to reprise the piece on the Taiwan Dance Platform in 2022. Originally designed for the theater, it will be re-tooled to fit the open stage at Weiwuying's Banyan Plaza, where the audience can see the performance, which depicts a journey of the past, present, future, and the self, from multiple angles.
*This work was created as part of Taikang Cultural Center's 2020-2021 Amateur Biennale Performance Project
Creative and Production Team
Choreographer｜LAI Tsui-shuang
Performer｜WU Meng-yu, SU Wan-ting, SHEN Syuan-zih, TU Hui-chu, YU Emile, YEH Me-or, CHEN Yao-ming, PENG Yang-min, LIANG Chiung-fen, SU Yi-chi, WU Shu-mien
Company executive｜CHEN Ssu-yu
Rehearsal Assistant｜CHEN Ying-chi
Lighting Design and Executive｜SHEN Yu-yen
Lighting Design｜CIOU Yu-wun
Deputy Stage Manager｜LEE Chu-hui
Presenter｜National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying)
Performance｜Lais Creative Dance Theater
Special Thanks｜Taikang Cultural Center
Team Introduction
Lais Creative Dance Theater
Lais Creative Dance Theatre was founded by the million-dollar-winner of the 7th Taishin Arts Award, Tsui-Shuang Lai, in 2011. Lai focuses on discovering and universalising the possibilities of dance art. They have been welcoming professionals from various backgrounds with high interest and skills in dancing from the day of the establishment. They release new choreography every year. They have also been making new and refreshing pieces as a guest choreographer for dance groups and art associations both domestically and internationally; they also promote dance art whole-heartedly.
With day-to-day body language, these close-to-heart artworks are the focus of Lais Creative Dance Theater. They wish to bring art closer to the audience via the form of dance theater
LAI Tsui-shuang
LAI Tsui-shuang graduated from the Folkwang University of the Arts in Germany. She was a part-time lecturer in modern dance at Taipei National University of the Arts, visiting dance lecturer at Colorado College and has given short-term courses as a visiting lecturer at numerous colleges and universities.
During her years in Germany, she worked as a solo dancer for Folkwang Tanzstudio, Städtische Bühnen Münster and Staatstheater Kassel.
She founded Lais Creative Dance Theater in 2011. Her dance production Surround won First Prize at the 7th Taishin Arts Awards in 2009. As a visiting choreographer, Lai has worked with Dance Forum Taipei, Capital Ballet Taipei, Assembly Dance Theatre, Liao Mo-Si Dance Theatre, Ormao Dance Company and Colorado College. She was also invited by Colgate University, commissioned by National Theater and Concert Hall and collaborated in NTUA's Dance Cross project, multi-media project in Paris, American College Dance Festival (ACDF), Tainan Arts Festival and Taiwan-Germany artistic exchange.
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【2022 Taiwan Dance Platform】Their Stories - Daylight
Their Stories-Daylight is a work in which drama and bodily expression abound. Tainan-born choreographer LAI Tsui-shuang collaborated with 11 amateur performers to put together this work using both representational and non-representational approaches that mirror the vulnerabilities and fragility of different periods of the performers' lives and support the process of self-exploration. Fragments of stories are connected through the interweaving of time and space, while the music is alternately melancholic, soft, dark, harsh, poetic, or introspective in a reflection of the storyline and the performers’ personality traits. The music parallels the highs and lows of the stories, adding a deeper layer of interpretation.
The performers of Their Stories-Daylight have been invited to reprise the piece on the Taiwan Dance Platform in 2022. Originally designed for the theater, it will be re-tooled to fit the open stage at Weiwuying's Banyan Plaza, where the audience can see the performance, which depicts a journey of the past, present, future, and the self, from multiple angles.
*This work was created as part of Taikang Cultural Center's 2020-2021 Amateur Biennale Performance Project
Creative and Production Team
Choreographer｜LAI Tsui-shuang
Performer｜WU Meng-yu, SU Wan-ting, SHEN Syuan-zih, TU Hui-chu, YU Emile, YEH Me-or, CHEN Yao-ming, PENG Yang-min, LIANG Chiung-fen, SU Yi-chi, WU Shu-mien
Company executive｜CHEN Ssu-yu
Rehearsal Assistant｜CHEN Ying-chi
Lighting Design and Executive｜SHEN Yu-yen
Lighting Design｜CIOU Yu-wun
Deputy Stage Manager｜LEE Chu-hui
Presenter｜National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying)
Performance｜Lais Creative Dance Theater
Special Thanks｜Taikang Cultural Center
Team Introduction
Lais Creative Dance Theater
Lais Creative Dance Theatre was founded by the million-dollar-winner of the 7th Taishin Arts Award, Tsui-Shuang Lai, in 2011. Lai focuses on discovering and universalising the possibilities of dance art. They have been welcoming professionals from various backgrounds with high interest and skills in dancing from the day of the establishment. They release new choreography every year. They have also been making new and refreshing pieces as a guest choreographer for dance groups and art associations both domestically and internationally; they also promote dance art whole-heartedly.
With day-to-day body language, these close-to-heart artworks are the focus of Lais Creative Dance Theater. They wish to bring art closer to the audience via the form of dance theater
LAI Tsui-shuang
LAI Tsui-shuang graduated from the Folkwang University of the Arts in Germany. She was a part-time lecturer in modern dance at Taipei National University of the Arts, visiting dance lecturer at Colorado College and has given short-term courses as a visiting lecturer at numerous colleges and universities.
During her years in Germany, she worked as a solo dancer for Folkwang Tanzstudio, Städtische Bühnen Münster and Staatstheater Kassel.
She founded Lais Creative Dance Theater in 2011. Her dance production Surround won First Prize at the 7th Taishin Arts Awards in 2009. As a visiting choreographer, Lai has worked with Dance Forum Taipei, Capital Ballet Taipei, Assembly Dance Theatre, Liao Mo-Si Dance Theatre, Ormao Dance Company and Colorado College. She was also invited by Colgate University, commissioned by National Theater and Concert Hall and collaborated in NTUA's Dance Cross project, multi-media project in Paris, American College Dance Festival (ACDF), Tainan Arts Festival and Taiwan-Germany artistic exchange.
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