![[2026 Taiwan Dance Platform] Resident Island Dance Theatre & Kinetic Light & ONIKHO - Eternal City](/api/images/ce8be9fa1182830e634638ac1fb6ba6f/2000/jpeg "[2026 Taiwan Dance Platform] Resident Island Dance Theatre & Kinetic Light & ONIKHO - Eternal City")
- Price: NTD 800
- 5/15(Fri)12:00 p.m. - 5/29(Fri)12:00 p.m. 25% Discount for Weiwuying member.
- 5/22(Fri)12:00 p.m. - 5/29(Fri)12:00 p.m. 20% Discount for Audience Overall.
- Presenter: Weiwuying
- Duration is 75 minutes without intermission.
- Age guidance 7+
- Latecomers must follow staff instructions for entry and re-entry.
- For Group Purchase Discounts, please contact 07-262-6666.
Helpful Guide
- 10% off for Weiwuying Lifestyle member
- Weiwuying Youth member: 25% ticket discount for your first purchase. The additional ticket discount same as Lifestyle members.
※ID and Youth membership card are required at the door. - Weiwuying Unlimited member: 30% ticket discount for your first purchase. The additional ticket discount same as Lifestyle members.
- For details, please see Weiwuying Members Benefit
[2026 Taiwan Dance Platform] Resident Island Dance Theatre & Kinetic Light & ONIKHO - Eternal City
"Disabled bodies and perspectives define Kinetic Light's work….Though everyone is welcome in the audience, the group's art is intended specifically for disabled people."——MARGARET FUHRER, THE NEW YORK TIMES "Kinetic Light allows disability to transform everything about the working process and the product."——EMILY WATLINGTON, ART IN AMERICA |
Moving through dance, live music, and disability arts, we try to sense a relationship of the future.
Eternal City is co-created by Resident Island Dance Theatre, U.S. disability arts company Kinetic Light, and music artist ONIKHO. Weaving together disability culture, live music, and dance, the work builds an ever-evolving future city. Rather than offering a one-directional vision of the future, the piece creates a staged world through cross-cultural collaboration, where different sensory logics, sonic structures, and embodied vocabularies come together.
Set decades—or even a century—ahead, the work imagines a future society shaped by rapid technological development. In such a world, love may no longer remain a private and organic emotional experience, but instead become something controlled, regulated, or even "optimized." But if love can be controlled, can it still spiral out of control? And when it does, do those moments come from human instinct, or from the environments we inhabit? Perhaps the emotions of the future will exist within precisely this contradiction.
Moving through dance, live music, and disability arts, Eternal City shapes a future city in motion through the meeting of different bodies, sounds, and sensory experiences. Here, access is not an add-on but a core creative principle; technology is not merely a tool, but a way of reorganizing relationships and feeling. Beginning with the body, the work explores the tensions among democracy, freedom, love, and control, and continues to ask: can democracy still mean the freedom to love?
The international co-production version of Eternal City will have its world premiere at the 2026 Taiwan Dance Platform at Weiwuying.
【Access Culture of Eternal City】
Audience members may choose their seating in the designated auditorium area on the first floor of the Opera House. Audience members are allowed to change their seats during the performance according to their own needs, or leave the auditorium and follow the guidance of Front House to a low sensory space backstage. Please minimize the influence on others when moving during the performance.
Access services:
- Audimance multi-track audio description
- Haptic devices
- Easy-read program information
- Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART)
- Live sign language interpretation
Audimance multi-track audio description
Audimance is designed to deliver multiple audio descriptions to the users including reasonably conventional movement description, non-textual (interpretive sound or recorded dancer sound), artistic or alternative description.
＊Audience members will be able to download this Audimance App through the links provided by the organizer prior to the performances.You may connect to the designated Wi-Fi network when entering the Opera House and listen to the content during the performances based on your needs and preferences. Please prepare your own headphones when adopting this service.
Haptics devices
Haptics offers a symphony of touch. Through technology, the music’s rhythm, intensity, and dynamics are translated into vibrations that can be felt through the body, providing another way of receiving sound. This haptic interpretation includes new physical devices and new methods for understanding and creating artistic content.
＊Audience members may register and collect the device on the 2F of Front House. Due to the limited number of these devices, it will be available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Pre-talk
2026/11/27(Fri) 19:00 Opera House 2F
2026/11/28(Sat) 14:00 Opera House 2F
Post-talk
2026/11/27(Fri) 5 mins after the performance at Opera House Auditorium
2026/11/28(Sat) 5 mins after the performance at Opera House Auditorium
Speakers
Choreographers｜CHANG Chung-an, FANG Shih-yun
Co-Choreographer｜Alice SHEPPARD, Laurel LAWSON
Access Design｜Laurel LAWSON
Composers, Arrangers and Performers｜ONIKHO, Angela HSIEH
Producer｜Sasa HSIAO
Creative and Production Team
Artistic Directors & Choreographers｜CHANG Chung-an, FANG Shih-yun
International Co-Creation Partners｜Kinetic Light (USA), ONIKHO (Carina HO, USA)
Co-Choreographer｜Alice SHEPPARD, Laurel LAWSON
Access Design｜Laurel LAWSON
Access Engineer｜Colin CLARK
Creative & Culture Advisor｜Hacwen WANG
Music Design & Composers｜ONIKHO, Angela HSIEH, TSENG Hua-hsuan, Holly MEAD, Matthew TORRES, Morgan WHITENY
Live Music Performance｜ONIKHO, Angela HSIEH, Holly MEAD, Matthew TORRES
Dancers｜Alice SHEPPARD, Laurel LAWSON, FANG Shih-yun, JUAN Yi-chen, HUANG Yi-yen, CHENG Yo-cheng, CHIEN Wen-liang, LAI Ting-yen, PAN Yo-ruei
Lighting Designer & Stage Manager｜TSAI Hsin-ying TSAI
Props Designer｜HSU Chih-wei
Costume Designer｜WANG Li-Yu
Producer｜Sasa HSIAO
Arts Administrator｜KANG Shu-hsuan
Rehearsal Assistant｜LIN Chia-han
Audio Description Consultant｜HSU Chia-feng
Co-production and Premiere: National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying)
Sponsors: National Culture and Arts Foundation, Karma Medical, Guohui Construction Co., Ltd., TS Holdings
Collaborating Partners: Taiwan Access for All Association, Catholic Tainan Private Luway Center for the Mentally Challenged, The Syin-Lu Social Welfare Foundation
Team Introduction
Resident Island Dance Theatre
Resident Island Dance Theatre, founded in Pingtung by choreographer CHANG Chung-an, creates contemporary performance works that engage physical difference, social conditions, and emotional connection, while actively pursuing international collaboration and inclusive arts practice. The company's work centers disability arts, body politics, and environmental perception, bringing performers with diverse abilities and experiences into the core of its creative process. Its works have been presented at major international platforms including the American Dance Festival, Jacob's Pillow, Edinburgh Fringe, Avignon OFF, Unlimited Festival, and Istanbul Fringe, and the company was selected for the U.S. Department of State's Center Stage program.
Kinetic Light
Founded in 2016 by Artistic Director Alice SHEPPARD, Kinetic Light is an internationally recognized disability arts ensemble based in New York City, United States. Working in the disciplines of art, technology, design, and dance, Kinetic Light creates, performs, and teaches at the nexus of access, queerness, disability, dance, and race.
Kinetic Light is led by disabled artists; disabled artists create, design, and perform the work. Our work speaks to and emerges from disability aesthetics and disability culture, and it is connected to the rich traditions and exciting contemporary conversations of disabled artists in all artistic fields.
In Kinetic Light's work disability is not a deficit, it is a powerful creative force that is essential to our artistry. Access is integral to our art, creative process, administrative work, and audience experience.
ONIKHO
ONIKHO is the artistic moniker of Bay Area music artist and producer Carina HO. Since beginning this project in 2014, she has blended her classical piano training with electronic, jazz, blues, and pop influences to create "electro-cinematic soul" sound. Also, a former professional dancer, she uses choreography, video, and original music to advocate for the positive representation of artists with disabilities and frequently collaborates with other disabled artists. Her work has been presented throughout the United States and internationally, and her dance short films have screened at the San Francisco Dance Film Festival and the Tiny Dance Film Festival.
Official Timepiece of WEIWUYING
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[2026 Taiwan Dance Platform] Resident Island Dance Theatre & Kinetic Light & ONIKHO - Eternal City
"Disabled bodies and perspectives define Kinetic Light's work….Though everyone is welcome in the audience, the group's art is intended specifically for disabled people."——MARGARET FUHRER, THE NEW YORK TIMES "Kinetic Light allows disability to transform everything about the working process and the product."——EMILY WATLINGTON, ART IN AMERICA |
Moving through dance, live music, and disability arts, we try to sense a relationship of the future.
Eternal City is co-created by Resident Island Dance Theatre, U.S. disability arts company Kinetic Light, and music artist ONIKHO. Weaving together disability culture, live music, and dance, the work builds an ever-evolving future city. Rather than offering a one-directional vision of the future, the piece creates a staged world through cross-cultural collaboration, where different sensory logics, sonic structures, and embodied vocabularies come together.
Set decades—or even a century—ahead, the work imagines a future society shaped by rapid technological development. In such a world, love may no longer remain a private and organic emotional experience, but instead become something controlled, regulated, or even "optimized." But if love can be controlled, can it still spiral out of control? And when it does, do those moments come from human instinct, or from the environments we inhabit? Perhaps the emotions of the future will exist within precisely this contradiction.
Moving through dance, live music, and disability arts, Eternal City shapes a future city in motion through the meeting of different bodies, sounds, and sensory experiences. Here, access is not an add-on but a core creative principle; technology is not merely a tool, but a way of reorganizing relationships and feeling. Beginning with the body, the work explores the tensions among democracy, freedom, love, and control, and continues to ask: can democracy still mean the freedom to love?
The international co-production version of Eternal City will have its world premiere at the 2026 Taiwan Dance Platform at Weiwuying.
【Access Culture of Eternal City】
Audience members may choose their seating in the designated auditorium area on the first floor of the Opera House. Audience members are allowed to change their seats during the performance according to their own needs, or leave the auditorium and follow the guidance of Front House to a low sensory space backstage. Please minimize the influence on others when moving during the performance.
Access services:
- Audimance multi-track audio description
- Haptic devices
- Easy-read program information
- Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART)
- Live sign language interpretation
Audimance multi-track audio description
Audimance is designed to deliver multiple audio descriptions to the users including reasonably conventional movement description, non-textual (interpretive sound or recorded dancer sound), artistic or alternative description.
＊Audience members will be able to download this Audimance App through the links provided by the organizer prior to the performances.You may connect to the designated Wi-Fi network when entering the Opera House and listen to the content during the performances based on your needs and preferences. Please prepare your own headphones when adopting this service.
Haptics devices
Haptics offers a symphony of touch. Through technology, the music’s rhythm, intensity, and dynamics are translated into vibrations that can be felt through the body, providing another way of receiving sound. This haptic interpretation includes new physical devices and new methods for understanding and creating artistic content.
＊Audience members may register and collect the device on the 2F of Front House. Due to the limited number of these devices, it will be available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Pre-talk
2026/11/27(Fri) 19:00 Opera House 2F
2026/11/28(Sat) 14:00 Opera House 2F
Post-talk
2026/11/27(Fri) 5 mins after the performance at Opera House Auditorium
2026/11/28(Sat) 5 mins after the performance at Opera House Auditorium
Speakers
Choreographers｜CHANG Chung-an, FANG Shih-yun
Co-Choreographer｜Alice SHEPPARD, Laurel LAWSON
Access Design｜Laurel LAWSON
Composers, Arrangers and Performers｜ONIKHO, Angela HSIEH
Producer｜Sasa HSIAO
Creative and Production Team
Artistic Directors & Choreographers｜CHANG Chung-an, FANG Shih-yun
International Co-Creation Partners｜Kinetic Light (USA), ONIKHO (Carina HO, USA)
Co-Choreographer｜Alice SHEPPARD, Laurel LAWSON
Access Design｜Laurel LAWSON
Access Engineer｜Colin CLARK
Creative & Culture Advisor｜Hacwen WANG
Music Design & Composers｜ONIKHO, Angela HSIEH, TSENG Hua-hsuan, Holly MEAD, Matthew TORRES, Morgan WHITENY
Live Music Performance｜ONIKHO, Angela HSIEH, Holly MEAD, Matthew TORRES
Dancers｜Alice SHEPPARD, Laurel LAWSON, FANG Shih-yun, JUAN Yi-chen, HUANG Yi-yen, CHENG Yo-cheng, CHIEN Wen-liang, LAI Ting-yen, PAN Yo-ruei
Lighting Designer & Stage Manager｜TSAI Hsin-ying TSAI
Props Designer｜HSU Chih-wei
Costume Designer｜WANG Li-Yu
Producer｜Sasa HSIAO
Arts Administrator｜KANG Shu-hsuan
Rehearsal Assistant｜LIN Chia-han
Audio Description Consultant｜HSU Chia-feng
Co-production and Premiere: National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying)
Sponsors: National Culture and Arts Foundation, Karma Medical, Guohui Construction Co., Ltd., TS Holdings
Collaborating Partners: Taiwan Access for All Association, Catholic Tainan Private Luway Center for the Mentally Challenged, The Syin-Lu Social Welfare Foundation
Team Introduction
Resident Island Dance Theatre
Resident Island Dance Theatre, founded in Pingtung by choreographer CHANG Chung-an, creates contemporary performance works that engage physical difference, social conditions, and emotional connection, while actively pursuing international collaboration and inclusive arts practice. The company's work centers disability arts, body politics, and environmental perception, bringing performers with diverse abilities and experiences into the core of its creative process. Its works have been presented at major international platforms including the American Dance Festival, Jacob's Pillow, Edinburgh Fringe, Avignon OFF, Unlimited Festival, and Istanbul Fringe, and the company was selected for the U.S. Department of State's Center Stage program.
Kinetic Light
Founded in 2016 by Artistic Director Alice SHEPPARD, Kinetic Light is an internationally recognized disability arts ensemble based in New York City, United States. Working in the disciplines of art, technology, design, and dance, Kinetic Light creates, performs, and teaches at the nexus of access, queerness, disability, dance, and race.
Kinetic Light is led by disabled artists; disabled artists create, design, and perform the work. Our work speaks to and emerges from disability aesthetics and disability culture, and it is connected to the rich traditions and exciting contemporary conversations of disabled artists in all artistic fields.
In Kinetic Light's work disability is not a deficit, it is a powerful creative force that is essential to our artistry. Access is integral to our art, creative process, administrative work, and audience experience.
ONIKHO
ONIKHO is the artistic moniker of Bay Area music artist and producer Carina HO. Since beginning this project in 2014, she has blended her classical piano training with electronic, jazz, blues, and pop influences to create "electro-cinematic soul" sound. Also, a former professional dancer, she uses choreography, video, and original music to advocate for the positive representation of artists with disabilities and frequently collaborates with other disabled artists. Her work has been presented throughout the United States and internationally, and her dance short films have screened at the San Francisco Dance Film Festival and the Tiny Dance Film Festival.
Official Timepiece of WEIWUYING
|
- Price: NTD 800
- 5/15(Fri)12:00 p.m. - 5/29(Fri)12:00 p.m. 25% Discount for Weiwuying member.
- 5/22(Fri)12:00 p.m. - 5/29(Fri)12:00 p.m. 20% Discount for Audience Overall.
- Presenter: Weiwuying
- Duration is 75 minutes without intermission.
- Age guidance 7+
- Latecomers must follow staff instructions for entry and re-entry.
- For Group Purchase Discounts, please contact 07-262-6666.
Helpful Guide
- 10% off for Weiwuying Lifestyle member
- Weiwuying Youth member: 25% ticket discount for your first purchase. The additional ticket discount same as Lifestyle members.
※ID and Youth membership card are required at the door. - Weiwuying Unlimited member: 30% ticket discount for your first purchase. The additional ticket discount same as Lifestyle members.
- For details, please see Weiwuying Members Benefit
