\nCHOU Shou-yi (Weiwuying Artist-In-Residence, 2022 Taiwan Dance Platform Curator)
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\nSwash Production Team : LUO Shih-wei (Director), *HSU Yen-ting (Music, Sound Designer)
\ntiaen tiamen Production Team : Bulareyaung Pagarlava (Choreographer), Mon Cher HO (Film director)
\n*Am I Here? Production Team : Eva TANG (Director), CHIEW Peishan (Choreographers & Dance Artist)
\n*Present Production Team : WAN Xing (Concept / Director / Composer / Musician)
*Participe online
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Films
\n\nAm I Here?
\n\tAn Esplanade-Theatres on the Bay commissioned film.
\n\tDirector: Eva TANG | Choreographers & Dance Artists: CHIEW Peishan & LIM Chin Huat | Movement Collaborators & Performers: Jo KWEK, Kimberly LONG, NG Mun Poh & Wendy TOH | Music & Sound Designers: Ferry & Vick LOW
Present
\n\tA Tai Kwun - Centre for Heritage and Arts commissioned film.
\n\tDirector / Scriptwriter / Composer / Musician: WAN Xing | Tap Dance: Eric HUYNH | Contemporary Dance: Natalie MAK | Videographer / Post-production: Thomas WONG | Lighting Designer: Victor WONG
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tiaen tiamen by Bulareyaung Dance Company
\n\tA National Taichung Theater commissioned film.
\n\tChoreography: Bulareyaung Pagarlava | Film Director: Mon Cher HO | Music Director ABAO | Music Arranger & Mixer Wenna | Dancers: aulu tjibulangan, giljigiljaw tjaruzaljum,Kwonduwa Takio, Siyang Sawawan, Liay Kitoh, Awi Pawan, CHEN Sheng-chih | Produced by Bulareyaung Dance Company | Director of Photography TANG Chien-che | 1st Assistant Cameraman SHIE Dong-lin | Chief Lighting Technician: Emile PENG | Assistant Lighting Technicians: YANG Yu-jun, CHEN Yu-fan, GENG Jing-xiang | Makeup & Hair Artist: Paggy KO | Makeup Assistant: Jens | Photographer & BTS editor: Pungiya KAO
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Swash
\n\tA National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying) commissioned film.
\n\tDirector & Cinematographer & Editor: LUO Sih-wei | Creation Partner CHOU Shu-yi | Choreographer WANG Yeu-kwn | Dancers & Co-choreographers: LEE Yin-ying, TIEN Hsiao-tzu | Music & Sound Designer: HSU Yen-ting | Executive Producer: LIN Jou-wen | Special Thanks: Jasper WANG、CHEN Yi-en
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Am I Here?
\n\nAn Esplanade-Theatres on the Bay commissioned film.
\nDirector: Eva TANG | Choreographers & Dance Artists: CHIEW Peishan & LIM Chin Huat | Movement Collaborators & Performers: Jo KWEK, Kimberly LONG, NG Mun Poh & Wendy TOH | Music & Sound Designers: Ferry & Vick LOW
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Home, is it permanent or fluid?
\n\nHome, a place that seemingly calls for one's return. What remains of the traces of connection between people and spaces amidst the evolving environment spurred by development?
\n\nPerhaps, the moment of one's birth begins the exploration of an inextricable web of connections. Embarking on an introspective journey, Am I Here? Reimagines childhood memories to ponder on presence and absence in exploring the notions of home and familial relationships.
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Artists Introduction
\n\nDirector|Eva TANG
\n\nEva TANG was awarded Hong Kong Chinese Literature Award first prize for her prose at the age of 21, when she was an undergrad at the University of Hong Kong. A journalist-turned-filmmaker, Eva pursued her Masters of Arts in Fiction Directing at the prestigious National Film and Television School in the United Kingdom. Her student film While You Sleep (2002) was the first short film by a Singaporean selected by the Venice Film Festival.
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Her debut documentary, The Songs We Sang, premiered at The Esplanade Grand Theatre, was the first sold-out film at the 2015 Singapore International Film Festival. It has also set the box office record for Singapore documentary. The Straits Times rated it one of the Best Movies of 2015. It is honoured the 10 Best Films of 2016 by China's popular film reviewer ttfilm who saw The Songs We Sang at the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival.
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Co-choreographer & Dancer|CHIEW Peishan
\n\nPeishan is a dance artist and choreographer. She graduated with a Master of Arts in Contemporary Dance from London Contemporary Dance School, with the support of the National Arts Council Arts Scholarship (Overseas).
\n\nPeishan draws from her lived experiences to craft autobiographical fiction. Engaging the body as the central medium, her works explore the connections and tensions between reality and imagination and situate in the in-between of subjective truth and inventive representation. She received commissions to create for Frontier Danceland, Re: Dance Theatre, T.H.E Second Company, Dance in Situ, as well as LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore Management University and National University of Singapore. Her works have been performed at the Esplanade da:ns Festival and M1 Contact Contemporary Dance Festival in Singapore, as well as in the United Kingdom and Hong Kong.
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Co-choreographer & Dancer|LIM Chin Huat
\n\nA visual artist who ventures into theatre and later dance, Chin Huat is a cross-disciplinary artist and a recipient of the prestigious Young Artist Award conferred by the National Arts Council, Singapore in 2000. A recipient of Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts Distinguished Alumni Medal, Chin Huat is a familiar name in Singapore's dance scene. The former co-founder and artistic director of ECNAD (1996 – 2013) have over 100 creative works, mainly full-length dance since 1993. He is currently a senior faculty member of the Intercultural Theatre Institute.
\n\nHis creative commissioned works have been part of the Asia Interaction (Yogyakarta, 1999 & 2001), Actor Studio (Kuala Lumpur, 2000), 35th Belgrade International Theatre Festival (2021), Festival of Asia (New Zealand, 2001), Singapore Arts Festival (2002), Beijing's Chaoyang Cultural Centre (2005), Mercedes-Benz Asia Fashion Award (2006), National Day Parade (2007 & 2008), Singapore River Festival (2008 &2009), Wiener Festwochen, Asian Village (Vienna, 2009), Esplanade Raw Series (2011), Media Corp Star Awards (2011), NUS Arts Festival (2011), Gardens by The Bay Opening Finale (2012), SPH Zaobao 90th Anniversary (2013), Teochew Festival (2014), Maritime Silk Road International Arts Festival (Quanzhou, 2017), 2nd Nanyin International Youth Festival (2018), NAFA 80th Anniversary (2018), SeptFest in March (Substation 30th Anniversary Finale, 2021) and many others.
\n\nA cross-disciplinary artist, Chin Huat has worked as a visual artist, actor, dancer, choreographer, director, movement director, costume designer, production designer, educator to mentor. Other than ECNAD, his creative direction, production design, and movement performance work with local arts companies include Siong Leng Musical Association, The Arts Fission Company, The Finger Players, DramaBox, Nine Years Theatre, The Theatre Practice, NAFA Dance Alumni Chapter, SIFA 2015, Nanyang Collective, The Substation, and others. His latest featuring performance in a short film includes re:walk Telok Ayer (2022) and Guide Us (2022).
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\nMovement Collaborator & Performer|Jo KWEK
Jo KWEK graduated with a Diploma in Performing Arts (Drama) from LASALLE (SIA) College of the Arts. Since then, she has been involved in numerous theatre productions and television dramas both in Singapore and abroad. She is also an arts educator in Singapore and China.
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Movement Collaborator & Performer|Kimberly LONG
\n\nKimberly graduated from SOTA with an International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma in 2016. In 2019, Kimberly completed her BA(Hons) in Dance at LASALLE College of the Arts.
\n\nHer passion for nurturing the youth led her to start her journey as an instructor with Jete Dance Studio. She also became a dance artist with The Human Expression Second Company to develop herself as an artist continuously. Kimberly strongly desires to develop her dance pedagogy and style that focuses on fluidity in movements. She is open to working with various artists to improve her voice. She hopes to carve her path continuously as a dance artist.
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Movement Collaborator & Performer|NG Mun Poh
\n\nMun Poh is a theatre practitioner, performer and educator. She has been in many productions such as The Bride Always Knocks Twice — Killer Secrets, Four Horse Road, Immortalx, The wee Question Mark series, and Day I Met the Prince, among others. As a playwright and performer, she has created a few monodramas: Almost Home, Daughter, I believe. She has also trained with The Theatre Practice's Actor's Lab. Her performance credits with Lab include The Nude, Upstream and Uproot. Mun Poh is also committed to teaching and promoting children's drama education. Whether rehearsing, performing, creating or teaching, she continues to explore her relationship with self and others through her work.
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Movement Collaborator & Performer|Wendy TOH
\n\nWendy TOH is a multi-disciplinary Singaporean artist whose work ranges from performing arts to making experimental films. She is a Jinen Butoh School (Italy) member and an alumnus of Singapore's Intercultural Theatre Institute.
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Music & Sound Designer|Ferry
\n\nFerry is an installation artist, musician, educator, and collaborator. Honed through a practice that spans design, music, art, education and theatre, Ferry's edge is in synthesizing ideas and practices from diverse fields, utilizing different methodologies to create audience experiences that engage through multiple means.
\n\nHer works range from large-scale installations such as Sky Kave – first commissioned by the Singapore International Festival of Arts (May 2018), recommissioned for Reflections Festival (Oct 2018) and Light to Night Festival (Jan 2019) – to collaborative performances with various art makers such as Songs of Tau for Project Utopia – The Theatre Practice (Aug 2019).
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Music & Sound Designer|Vick LOW
\n\nVick is a sound designer/artist based in Singapore. Traditionally trained in the cello, he fuses organic and electronic sonic elements to create textural soundscapes. His works are influenced by minimalism, electronica and ambient genres, creating a space for organic and electronic elements to co-exist.
\n\nAfter graduating from LASALLE College of the Arts in 2015, specializing in Music Technology, he went on to design for dance, film and theatre. In 2019, he was nominated for Best Sound Design for The Straits Times Life Theatre Awards for The Watching (Toy Factory Productions). Being heavily involved in Theatre for Young Audiences, his compositions have been featured in works such as In Search of You (The Kueh Tutus), When Sadness Comes to Call (MySuperFuture Theatrical Productions), Esplanade's PLAY!time Series, namely The Dragon's Dentist and Us. Some of his recent sound design work includes Kwa Geok Choo (Toy Factory Productions), See You Anniversary (Nine Years Theatre), Hutan (2022 AWESOME Festival, Perth) and Windward Side of the Mountain (SCCC Cultural Extravaganza 2022).
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Production Credits
\n\nAn Esplanade Commission
\n\nDirector|Eva TANG
\n\nChoreographers & Dance Artists|CHIEW Peishan & LIM Chin Huat
\n\nMovement Collaborators & Performers|Jo KWEK, Kimberly LONG, NG Mun Poh & Wendy TOH
\n\nMusic & Sound Designers|Ferry & Vick LOW
\n\nCast|Ganapathy Balamurugan, Md Mukul, Rafique, Tahar Sarkar
\n\nEditor|Alson HO
\n\nProduction Design & Wardrobe|Dorothy PNG & ANG Hui Bin
\n\nDirector of Photography|Shyan TAN
\n\nGaffer|Eljin TAN
\n\nColourist|Eugene SEAH
\n\nProduction Manager|Shirley CHIA
\n\nAssistant Director|Gayle HARIFF
\n\nHair & Make-up|Hana LEONG
\n\nVisual Effects|Kew LIN
\n\n1st Camera Assistant|Justin Faith NG
\n\n2nd Camera Assistant|CHOW Hui Xian
\n\nGrip|Spencer Jerrold Maximilian
\n\nJunior Grip|McDouglas LIM & Vivienne CHONG
\n\nLocation Sound Recordist|Chris ANG
\n\nArt Assistants|Ian LEE & LEE Jia Jing
\n\nArt Assistant Interns|LI Jiaxuan & WU Zixin
\n\nProduction Assistants|ANG Peishan & GU Yixin
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Present
\n\nA Tai Kwun - Centre for Heritage and Arts commissioned film.
\n\nDirector / Scriptwriter / Composer / Musician: WAN Xing | Tap Dance: Eric HUYNH | Contemporary Dance: Natalie MAK | Videographer / Post-production: Thomas WONG | Lighting Designer: Victor WONG
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Life is a constant change. We cannot change the past nor predict the future, whether in the fortune or the adverse; we can only live in the moment and gain peace of mind.
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A contemporary dancer is injured and can no longer dance freely. A tap dancer has lost all performance opportunities due to the pandemic. They are each facing a struggle, but the sorrow is the same. What confines our mind is not our challenges but how we weigh these difficulties and allow them to burden us.
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\nFocus on the present and listen deeply. Embrace and release.
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Artists Introduction
\n\nDirector / Scriptwriter / Composer / Musician|WAN Xing
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WAN Xing graduated with a Bachelor degree in Music from the Central Conservatory of Music in China. She continued her studies at The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and received her master's degree. She also obtained a master's degree in Cultural Management from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
\n\nWAN won numerous accolades including the Best Performance Award 2002 in the First Chinese Folk Instruments Competition organized by the Ministry of Culture, Gold Award (Young Performers Category) in the Second International Guzheng Competition 2011 and the Best Instructor Award 2013 in the Third International Zheng Contest. She also participated in other music activities including recording a demonstration DVD for the Central Conservatory of Music examination pieces, adjudicating the 32nct Macao Young Musicians Competition and the Second Hong Kong Students Open Music Competition. She has given classes at the Education University of Hong Kong recently.
\n\nBeing a young artist and curator, WAN's music is often perceived as spiritual with oriental aesthetics, and is aligned with her idea of composition - simple and natural. She masters diversified music styles and crossovers with her zheng. In 2020, she was invited by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department to compose for the Hong Kong Space Museum multimedia clip, the Tour de force - Museum x Performing Art: Origins. Her other new piece Aspiration is also invited as the designated music showcased at the Hong Kong Museum of Art "Honouring Tradition and Heritage: Min Qiu Society at Sixty" exhibition. In 2019, she was invited by Arpe del Mondo to hold concerts in Italy and as performing guest at the event's Opening Ceremony. WAN has been actively involved in musical performances and events of various natures and performed in several concerts including "Our Music Talents Series: WAN Xing Guzheng Recital" in 2017. She has cooperated with Hong Kong Dance Company at the Original Dance Poem Shan Shui: An Ode to Nature and Mindful Theatre Vipassana; Wuji Ensemble at Atmospheric Music Theatre Tranquil as a Chrysanthemum and Siinyata; world premiere of zheng pieces by renowned composer LAW Wing-fai, namely La Blancheur and In Oneness.
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Tap Dance|Eric HUYNH
\n\nEric HUYNH graduated from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (HKAPA), majoring in Musical Theatre Dance. He is the Founder of Musical Trio, a local musical creative group in Hong Kong. Eric has attained the ISTD Intermediate Tap Certificate with distinction. During his program of study, he was awarded scholarships from the Jackie Chan Charitable Foundation Scholarships and has performed on a study tour to Guang Zhou.
\n\nEric was active in various genres of art groups. He was a performer for 3AMI, HKREP, HKDC, Theatre Noir, DanceArt, Actor Family, and 7A drama group among others…Eric also has taught at numerous groups, including CCDC dance center, HKAPA EXCEL… Eric is currently a freelance performer, choreographer and dance teacher.
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Contemporary Dance|Natalie MAK
\n\nNatalie MAK is an independent dancer, choreographer and dance teacher. MAK is also a registered yoga teacher with Yoga Alliance (500 hours) and certified Flyoga® instructor.
\n\nMAK studied Chinese Dance at The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (HKAPA). MAK was awarded the Spring Time Stage Productions Scholarship and the Disney Scholarship twice.
\n\nAlso, MAK was nominated for Hong Kong Dance Awards "Outstanding Performing Female Dancer" in 2017.
\n\nMAK was a full-time dancer in the City Contemporary Dance Company (CCDC) during 2014 – 2020. MAK has worked with various renowned choreographers, including KIM Jaeduk (Korea), SANG Jijia (China), Helen LAI (Hong Kong), Kristina CHAN (Australia) etc.
\n\nMAK recent choreographic works include: 1/2 TBC presented by Hong Kong Dance Alliance "New Force in Motion" Series (2021), and Wandering Stone presented by CCDC Dancer Homework (2016).
\n\nMAK has also developed profound interests in Singing Bowl Therapy and Yoga in recent years. MAK wishes to merge dance with well-being awareness and spirituality, to promote a body-mind aligned aesthetic.
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Videographer/Post-production|Thomas WONG
\n\nThomas Wong is the founder of TimeCapsule Storytelling Limited. He has been a professional videographer for five years and constantly explores new techniques. His past works include music videos, commercials, events, weddings and documentary filming. He participated in the filming of the grand opening of the Rosewood Hotel and St. Regis Hotel. Apart from these, he collaborates regularly with apparel brand MyAleshia and TVB artist Simon On Chun Ho.
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Production Credits
\n\nA Tai Kwun - Centre for Heritage and Arts commission
\n\nDirector / Scriptwriter / Composer / Musician|WAN Xing
\n\nTap Dance: Eric HUYNH |Contemporary Dance|Natalie MAK
\n\nVideographer/Post-production|Thomas WONG
\n\nGaffer|Victor WONG
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tiaen tiamen
\n\nby Bulareyaung Dance Company
\n\nA National Taichung Theater commissioned film.
\n\nChoreography: Bulareyaung Pagarlava | Film Director: Mon Cher HO | Music Director ABAO | Music Arranger & Mixer Wenna | Dancers: aulu tjibulangan, giljigiljaw tjaruzaljum,Kwonduwa Takio, Siyang Sawawan, Liay Kitoh, Awi Pawan, CHEN Sheng-chih | Produced by Bulareyaung Dance Company | Director of Photography TANG Chien-che | 1st Assistant Cameraman SHIE Dong-lin | Chief Lighting Technician: Emile PENG | Assistant Lighting Technicians: YANG Yu-jun, CHEN Yu-fan, GENG Jing-xiang | Makeup & Hair Artist: Paggy KO | Makeup Assistant: Jens | Photographer & BTS editor: Pungiya KAO
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Zoning out, I plummet into a dream. All things thus become possible.
\n\nHunters, hundred-pacer, water elves, and eagles are woven into this fantasy world, in which nothing needs to be defined as before. Dancers slither like a snake, dive like an eagle, and gather and disperse like water—the boundary between dream and reality melts away, and only connections between the two remain.
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Choreographer Bulareyaung Pegarlava joined hands with music director Aljenljeng Tjaluvie (ABAO) and graphic designer reretan pavavaljung for an otherworldly and transcendent experience through movement on film. ABAO uses electronic noises to scramble into an ambience of mountains and forests, constructing another world where reality and illusion intersect. Graphic designer reretan pavavaljung utilises the imagery of glass beads to portray a recycling view of life in which all beings are interconnected.
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Artists Introduction
\n\nChoreography|Bulareyaung Pagarlava
\n\nBulareyaung Pagarlava is from the Paiwan tribe of Taiwan. He aspired to become a dancer when he was twelve. After he graduated from the Dance Department, Taipei National University of the Arts, Bulareyaung joined the Cloud Gate Dance Theatre. He was awarded a fellowship by the Asian Cultural Council to study in New York in 1998, and has created dance pieces for the Cloud Gate Dance Theatre, Cloud Gate 2, and the Martha Graham Dance Company. Bulareyaung was selected as one of the Ten Outstanding Young Persons of Taiwan in 2012 and National Award of Arts presented by the National Culture and Arts Foundation in 2022. He went back to his hometown Taitung and founded the Bulareyaung Dance Company in 2015.
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Film Director | Mon Cher HO
\n\nGraduated from the Department of Chinese Literature, National Chengchi University in Taiwan, Mon Cher HO devotes himself to theater documentation, film creation, film production and commercial filming. HO has a long-term collaboration with B.DANCE, a modern dance company in Taiwan. His works include INNERMOST and No Man's Land. In 2021, he filmed Not Afraid of the Sun and Rain by the Bulareyaung Dance Company, and In Between by the Shinehouse Theatre. His dance film Chasser was shortlisted in the international competition of the Bucharest International Dance Film Festival in 2017.
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Music Director|aljenljeng tjaluvie (aka "ABAO")
\n\nABAO is from the Paiwan tribe of Taitung, a county on the east coast of Taiwan. She has received a total of five Golden Melody Awards, including Best Vocal Group in 2004, Best Indigenous Language Album in 2017, and Song of the Year, Album of the Year, and Best Indigenous Language Album in 2020. In 2014, ABAO, together with her grandmother and her mother, sang in an all-Paiwan album The East Payuan Folk And Three Generations. In 2016, she released her first solo album vavayan. Women in her mother tongue. In 2019, she published her second written Paiwan album Mother Tongue. In 2021, she made her first compilation album N1: Nanguaq No.1 on indigenous originals. Through collaboration, she hopes that the voices of the younger generation could thus have a broader and more diverse cultural representation.
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Music Arranger & Mixer|Wenna
\n\nWenna is a record producer from the new generation in Taiwan, known professionally as Ń7ä. In 2019, her first album Panorama is released under the stage name Ń7ä and won the 11th Golden Indie Music Awards for Best Electronic Album; the following year the single zaljum, together with ABAO and the Amis rapper R.fu, won the Best Electronic Song at the 12th Golden Indie Music Awards again. Other collaborators include YELLOW, No Party For Cao Dong, Black Swan dance consultant Francesca Harper, etc.
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Production Credits
\n\nA National Taichung Theater Commission
\n\nChoreography|Bulareyaung Pagarlava
\n\nFilm Director|Mon Cher HO
\n\nMusic Director ABAO
\n\nMusic Arranger & Mixer|Wenna
\n\nDancers|aulu tjibulangan, giljigiljaw tjaruzaljum, Kwonduwa Takio, Siyang Sawawan, Liay Kitoh, Awi Pawan, CHEN Sheng-chih
\n\nProduced by Bulareyaung Dance Company
\n\nDirector of Photography TANG Chien-che
\n\n1st Assistant Cameraman SHIE Dong-lin
\n\nChief Lighting Technician|Emile PENG
\n\nAssistant Lighting Technicians|YANG Yu-jun, CHEN Yu-fan, GENG Jing-xiang
\n\nMakeup & Hair Artist|Paggy KO
\n\nMakeup Assistant|Jens
\n\nPhotographer & BTS Editor|Pungiya KAO
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Swash
\n\nA National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying) commissioned film.
\n\nDirector & Cinematographer & Editor: LUO Sih-wei | Creation Partner CHOU Shu-yi | Choreographer WANG Yeu-kwn | Dancers & Co-choreographers: LEE Yin-ying, TIEN Hsiao-tzu | Music & Sound Designer: HSU Yen-ting | Executive Producer: LIN Jou-wen | Special Thanks: Jasper WANG, CHEN Yi-en
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Humans are spray and sand.
\n\nDid he affect you?
\n\nDid you change him?
\n\nWhat's left? What's taken?
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Inspired by how waves hit the beach, this work reflects humans' mutual and ever-continuing influence in relationships. The artist translated this into physical movements and stories by zooming in on how influence occurs.
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Artists Introduction
\n\nDirector & Cinematographer & Editor|LUO Sih-wei
\n\nAs a dancer with abundant performing experiences, LUO officially became a freelance image artist in 2021. With a base in performing arts, he believes in the infinite possibilities of transforming the arts into images. He is committed to presenting the delicate perspective and the story of performing arts.
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Creation Partner|CHOU Shu-yi
\n\nCHOU Shu-yi starts from the body and communicates with the world through dance and choreography. He focuses on the relationship between human beings and society. In his past creations and actions, he can capture the powers of cross-disciplinary collaboration to address the publicness of arts. His creations focus on the value of life and reflect the state of individuals or collectives in different social contexts. Through his creations, CHOU Shu-yi makes propositions of a "body vocabulary that is specifically Asian" in theatre, non-traditional theatre and dance videos. He continues to create as he travels to different sites and places. In 2020, he was invited as the Weiwuying's first artist-in-residence and has been living in Kaohsiung ever since.
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Choreographer|WANG Yeu-kwn
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Dancer & Co-choreographer|LEE Yin-ying
\n\nLEE is the co-founder of Shimmering Production. After graduating from the National Taiwan University of Arts, LEE worked with several professional dance companies in Taiwan and received a scholarship to the American Dance Festival in 2007. LEE then joined Cloud Gate 2 from 2009 to 2019; during that period, she cooperated with world-renowned Taiwanese choreographers such as CHENG Tsung-lung, WU Kuo-chu, Bulareyaung Pagarlava, SUN Shang-chi, and HUANG Yi. She also toured with the company to participate in dance festivals and performances at the Joyce Theater, New York City Center, Sadler's Wells Theatre, Esplanade-Theatres on the Bay, International Tanzmesse NRW Duesseldorf and China Shanghai International Arts Festival. As a senior dancer, in addition to continuing to explore the various possibilities of performances, LEE has participated in cross-border video shooting, dramatic body action design, and sharing physical skills with professional dancers and non-professionals. She hopes that through the sorting and inheritance of physical experience, she can help to guide more people to know themselves better through dance.
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Dancer & Co-choreographer|TIEN Hsiao-Tzu
\n\nTIEN Hsiao-Tzu was born in 1984 in Tainan as a freelance choreographer, dancer, and performer in Taipei. TIEN puts the focus of her choreography research on human emotions shaped by time, history, culture, and environment. She also develops the potential of body and movements through international exchange and collaboration with theatre or performance arts, keeping connected with foreign cultures and other disciplines. The work, Masses co-created by WANG Shih-wei, LI Tzi-mei, Helmi FITA won the Performing Arts Award of the 18th Taishin Arts Award in 2020. In 2016, she was selected by the Ministry of Culture of Taiwan for the artist residency program in Paris. Her work The Hole was nominated for Taishin Arts Award in 2015. Her works have been premiered at Taipei Arts Festival, Dance Massive (Melbourne), America Dance Festival, among others. The Hole and Stem have been presented respectively in Avignon, Shenzhen Contemporary Theatre Biennale and Dance Bridges Festival (Kolkata). Drifting Dust, the dance video she created with artist CHIH Cheuk-lam, has been exhibited in Kaohsiung, Chiayi (Taiwan) and Madrid (Spain).
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Music / Sound Design|HSU Yen-ting
\n\nUsing sound as primary creation medium, HSU Yen-ting investigates sound's cultural context and texture. Her works often reflect the relationship between sounds, environment, individual and/or collective memories and emotions. Interweaving field recordings with electronic sounds and objects, Hsu keeps exploring and experimenting with documentary and fiction/narrative and imaginary elements of recorded sounds. Using other art mediums and disciplines, HSU creates installations, performances, audio documentaries, electro-acoustic music, and more. She collaborates with dance theaters and films as a sound designer/composer. Her work has been shown at Taipei Artist Village, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taitung Art Museum, Cheng Long Wetlands International Environmental Art Project (Taiwan), Taipei International Documentary Festival, Asian Meeting Festival (Japan) in Taipei Arts Festival, Festival Film Dokumenter (Indonesia), Toyama Glass Art Museum(Japan), Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (Australia), Fremantle Arts Centre(Australia), Lacking Sound Festival and On-Site (Taiwan), Liquid Architecture(Australia), Arte Radio (France), Resonance fm (UK), among others.
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Production Credits
\n\nA National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying) commission
\n\nDirector & Cinematographer & Editor|LUO Sih-wei
\n\nCreation Partner CHOU Shu-yi
\n\nChoreographer WANG Yeu-kwn
\n\nDancers & Co-choreographers|LEE Yin-ying, TIEN Hsiao-tzu
\n\nMusic, Sound Design|HSU Yen-ting
\n\nExecutive Producer|LIN Jou-wen
\n\nSpecial Thanks|Jasper WANG、CHEN Yi-en
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