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- 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: 15 minutes of pre-show and 60 minutes of performance without intermission.
During the performance and pre-show interaction session, audience members will be asked to participate by scanning QR codes on their personal mobile devices.
The pre-show interaction session with audience members will be filmed. Captured images will be used as an element during the performance.
Audience members taking part in participatory sessions during the performance will be required to remove their shoes. Please wear appropriate footwear.
Interaction session will be executed in English and Thai, with Mandarin translation.
- 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] Kornkarn RUNGSAWAN Mali Bucha: Dance Offering
A Digital Shrine of Mixed Virtual and Reality
Mali Bucha: Dance Offering is a creation inspired by the ancient Thai Ritual 'Rum-Kea-Bon' where dance is a negotiation tool between human and higher beings for making our wishes come true. The most charming dancer - hired as a messenger from the people to higher beings - is able to enhance the likelihood of one's wish fulfillment.
'Rum-Kea-Bon', a 400-years-old vernacular folk form, is effectively a 'people's dance' and a space of aspiration and spirituality. Taking place in shrines commonly found at street corners, 'Rum-Kea-Bon' (literally translated as 'dance offering') has constantly evolved and adapted itself as a social and cultural practice in Thailand.
Kornkarn RUNGSAWANG's Mali Bucha: Dance Offering is a hybrid constellation of augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR) and dance. In this immersive iteration of 'Rum-Kea-Bon', audience-participants cross between physical and immaterial worlds as they are invited to make wishes before a digital shrine.
As an interface, RUNGSAWANG shifts between the real-time audience and the digital portal, communicating individual hopes and wishes via dance to higher beings. She also conveys dance as thanksgiving when someone's wish is fulfilled.
Animals and flowers abound as digital currencies - they are offered by the audience as tokens of aspiration and appreciation. The collective investment of the audience community gradually builds up the vitality of the digital shrine. The belief system in Mali Bucha: Dance Offering is constituted by a current flowing through economics and ecology, image and sound, old and new, the mundane and the transcendent.
Creative and Production Team
Concept, Choreography and Dance｜Kornkarn RUNGSAWANG
Sound Designer｜TANG Zai
Lighting Designer｜Asako MIURA
Dramaturgy｜TANG Fu Kuen
Production Stage Manager｜YAP Seok Hui
VR & Video Designer｜Takuya MATSUMI & Junnosuke HARA
VR & Video Operation｜Panithi MAKTHIENGTRONG
Costume Designer｜Manit THEPPAIMAPORN, Kanapoot VIRUTTANACHAI
Producer｜Sojirat SINGHOLKA
Company Touring Management｜Kanpong THAWEESUK
Mali Bucha: Dance Offering is a commission of Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay (Singapore / SG), in co-production with Kinosaki International Arts Center (Toyooka / JP).
The project also benefited from residency and research support from Chang Theatre & Pichet Klunchun Dance Company (Bangkok / TH), Dance Nucleus (Singapore / SG), Tanz Kongress (Mainz / DE), Indonesian Dance Festival (Jakarta / ID), Tijmur Arts Festival (Pingtung County / TW), and Kinosaki International Arts Center (Toyooka / JP)
Artists Introduction
Dance Artist｜Kornkarn RUNGSAWANG
Kornkarn RUNGSAWANG (b.1988) is a Thai classical and contemporary dancer. She represents a new generation of dance artists bridging tradition and contemporary. Trained in diverse Thai traditions, from royal court to folk, her practice is grounded in embodied knowledge, treating the body as both archive and site of inquiry. She reactivates Thai classical kinesthetic systems within contemporary and urban contexts, approaching embodiment as a mode of thinking and engaging with social, cultural, and spiritual conditions.
Since 2010, she has been a full-time member of Pichet Klunchun Dance Company (PKDC) under the mentorship of choreographer Pichet KLUNCHUN, while developing her own independent works. She received the acclaimed Asian Cultural Council (ACC) Individual Fellowship in the United States and participated in the International Choreographers Residency program at the American Dance Festival in North Carolina.
Mali Bucha: Dance Offering (2021–present), developed during the pandemic, explores intersections of ritual, spirituality, and technology. Presented in Bangkok, Singapore, Japan, Germany, Indonesia, and Taiwan, it premiered at Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay, Singapore in October 2023 and continues touring internationally.
Official Timepiece of WEIWUYING
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[2026 Taiwan Dance Platform] Kornkarn RUNGSAWAN Mali Bucha: Dance Offering
A Digital Shrine of Mixed Virtual and Reality
Mali Bucha: Dance Offering is a creation inspired by the ancient Thai Ritual 'Rum-Kea-Bon' where dance is a negotiation tool between human and higher beings for making our wishes come true. The most charming dancer - hired as a messenger from the people to higher beings - is able to enhance the likelihood of one's wish fulfillment.
'Rum-Kea-Bon', a 400-years-old vernacular folk form, is effectively a 'people's dance' and a space of aspiration and spirituality. Taking place in shrines commonly found at street corners, 'Rum-Kea-Bon' (literally translated as 'dance offering') has constantly evolved and adapted itself as a social and cultural practice in Thailand.
Kornkarn RUNGSAWANG's Mali Bucha: Dance Offering is a hybrid constellation of augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR) and dance. In this immersive iteration of 'Rum-Kea-Bon', audience-participants cross between physical and immaterial worlds as they are invited to make wishes before a digital shrine.
As an interface, RUNGSAWANG shifts between the real-time audience and the digital portal, communicating individual hopes and wishes via dance to higher beings. She also conveys dance as thanksgiving when someone's wish is fulfilled.
Animals and flowers abound as digital currencies - they are offered by the audience as tokens of aspiration and appreciation. The collective investment of the audience community gradually builds up the vitality of the digital shrine. The belief system in Mali Bucha: Dance Offering is constituted by a current flowing through economics and ecology, image and sound, old and new, the mundane and the transcendent.
Creative and Production Team
Concept, Choreography and Dance｜Kornkarn RUNGSAWANG
Sound Designer｜TANG Zai
Lighting Designer｜Asako MIURA
Dramaturgy｜TANG Fu Kuen
Production Stage Manager｜YAP Seok Hui
VR & Video Designer｜Takuya MATSUMI & Junnosuke HARA
VR & Video Operation｜Panithi MAKTHIENGTRONG
Costume Designer｜Manit THEPPAIMAPORN, Kanapoot VIRUTTANACHAI
Producer｜Sojirat SINGHOLKA
Company Touring Management｜Kanpong THAWEESUK
Mali Bucha: Dance Offering is a commission of Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay (Singapore / SG), in co-production with Kinosaki International Arts Center (Toyooka / JP).
The project also benefited from residency and research support from Chang Theatre & Pichet Klunchun Dance Company (Bangkok / TH), Dance Nucleus (Singapore / SG), Tanz Kongress (Mainz / DE), Indonesian Dance Festival (Jakarta / ID), Tijmur Arts Festival (Pingtung County / TW), and Kinosaki International Arts Center (Toyooka / JP)
Artists Introduction
Dance Artist｜Kornkarn RUNGSAWANG
Kornkarn RUNGSAWANG (b.1988) is a Thai classical and contemporary dancer. She represents a new generation of dance artists bridging tradition and contemporary. Trained in diverse Thai traditions, from royal court to folk, her practice is grounded in embodied knowledge, treating the body as both archive and site of inquiry. She reactivates Thai classical kinesthetic systems within contemporary and urban contexts, approaching embodiment as a mode of thinking and engaging with social, cultural, and spiritual conditions.
Since 2010, she has been a full-time member of Pichet Klunchun Dance Company (PKDC) under the mentorship of choreographer Pichet KLUNCHUN, while developing her own independent works. She received the acclaimed Asian Cultural Council (ACC) Individual Fellowship in the United States and participated in the International Choreographers Residency program at the American Dance Festival in North Carolina.
Mali Bucha: Dance Offering (2021–present), developed during the pandemic, explores intersections of ritual, spirituality, and technology. Presented in Bangkok, Singapore, Japan, Germany, Indonesia, and Taiwan, it premiered at Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay, Singapore in October 2023 and continues touring internationally.
Official Timepiece of WEIWUYING
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- 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: 15 minutes of pre-show and 60 minutes of performance without intermission.
During the performance and pre-show interaction session, audience members will be asked to participate by scanning QR codes on their personal mobile devices.
The pre-show interaction session with audience members will be filmed. Captured images will be used as an element during the performance.
Audience members taking part in participatory sessions during the performance will be required to remove their shoes. Please wear appropriate footwear.
Interaction session will be executed in English and Thai, with Mandarin translation.
- 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
