2021 Weiwuying TIFA Contemporary Music Platform Here and Now
Photo／林峻永
Wandering into a story of space travel…
Listen to the body, gaze in the sound, chasing between light and shadow
Banyan Plaza has hosted numerous physical activities for the public in the past, where people of all ages were introduced to awkward dance moves or given the opportunity to lightly sway around. This time, the Weiwuying TIFA Contemporary Music Platform is launching live, joint music and dance creations. Everyone is invited to come and watch the synergy creation of young musicians and dancers.
In 2020, Studio Acht and Cloud Gate Theater jointly organized a music and dance workshop to promote mutual artistic understanding and collaboration between musicians and dancers. The workshop employed dancer mentor KU Ming-shen and music mentor LIN Fang-yi to conduct cross-teaching, assist in the creative process, and provide guidance, allowing the artists of the two fields to establish new methods of communication and engage in mutual application and creation, thereby restoring the intrinsic symbiosis and interconnection between music and dance.
In Here and Now, the connection between consciousness and the physical body is used to emphasize the subjectivity and creativity of every performer in the present time. The performers hear each other's breathing and share in each other's pulses, in addition to some collisions of adrenaline. Through face-to-face breathing conducted at zero distance, the audience is able to realize the purest relationship between music and dance and observe how body and sound interact in the performance, immersing themselves in an incomparable afterglow.
Date: 2021/04/24 (Sat.) 17:00、2021/04/25 (Sun.) 17:00
Location: Banyan Plaza
Informaiton: Approx 50 mins without interval
Dance｜Si Pehbowen
Si Pehbowen, born in Lanyu. Growing up, social issues regarding Lanyu were what she was most exposed to, and therefore she has deep understanding far beyond her years of aboriginal self-identity, the formation and change of island culture, and the relationship and history between Lanyu and the island of Taiwan. Through reading, writing, video recording, and dancing, she tries to map the cultural context spanning from herself to Lanyu in order to establish descriptions and methods of artistic creation. She is highly interested in many fields of art, with a focus on modern dancing and body theater. On the side, she also studies and follows trends in photography, films, and music. She is currently a member of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna's art research program "Creative (Mis)Understandings".
Dance｜HUANG Wei-jie
HUANG Wei-jie, body-performing artist, level-3 practitioner of Akashic Records, and model. Born in Taipei in 1991 and graduated from the Department of Atmospheric Sciences of National Central University in Taiwan, he was exposed to dance theater and the performing arts in 2012. He was the founding member and full-time dancer of Bulareyaung Dance Company from 2015 to 2019, during which he often took on the role of solo dancer. He is now a freelancer, and has participated as a performer, creator, and teacher of body-related courses in the fields of drama, musical performance, filmmaking, exhibitions, and musicals.
Dance｜TIEN Hsiao-tzu
TIEN Hsiao-tzu graduated from the master's program of the Department of Dance of National Taiwan University of Arts in Taiwan. She is currently a freelancer who focuses on human emotions shaped by different times, histories, cultures, and environments, and how such emotions are expressed through body movements. Her works have been presented in National Choreographic Development Center in Avignon in France, Busan Art Fair, Dance Bridges Festival in Kolkata in India, and Contemporary Theater Biennale in Shenzhen. Since 2008, she has published her works on many platforms both in Taiwan and abroad, including Dance Massive in Melbourne, American Dance Festival, Taipei Arts Festival, Young Stars New Vision by National Theater & Concert Hall in Taiwan, Next Choreography Project, Chiayi New Style Choreography, and The Grasstraw Festival.
Electro Bass｜HO Guang-jie
A constant shuttler between writing, music, images, and dancing, HO often inadvertently dwells in overlapping times and dimensions. Because she often recalls her dreams, she sometimes writes about them, and occasionally, tries to interpret them. She sees when hearing, and hears when writing; additionally, she uses the most independent attitude to calm herself and the fiercest silence to dance. She grows when creating and enjoys the moment when improvising.
Electro Acoustics｜CHANG Chun-tzu
An art worker that specializes in many fields of art. With works in painting, poetry, installation, field recording, and improvisatory performance, she explores audible and inaudible bodily senses and consciousness flows in space. Her recent works focus on the interaction between sound and individual memories and the subjectivity reconstruction of message distortion. She considers the fragility of sonic memories a form of self-healing and a repeated process of formation, reconstruction, and disappearance. Her works have been exhibited in venues both in Taiwan and abroad, with Moon Tide Lullaby: Fragility of Sonic Memory receiving the first prize in the new media category of the 2020 Nanying Awards.
Suona｜HUANG Ya-nung
A visual artist who received her master's degree of design and art direction from Manchester Metropolitan University in the UK. With a talent in expression through images through a simple yet refined style, she specializes in illustration, design, photography, and video recording. She is also a professional suona player. Using social theories as the foundation and visual arts as the tool, she has developed an improvisatory style of creation that combines image, sound, and body movements. During the process of creating artworks, she wanders in and out of the camera and oscillates freely between the positions of the viewer and the viewed.
Violin｜TAI Zih-ning
TAI constantly explores the possibilities of sound in the art-creating process, and by way of having purer dialogues with the space, environment, and people, evokes the specific life memories of listeners. With a background in classical music, she now explores experimental and modern sound works. She has participated in many experimental work creations, in which prepared violins were combined with 21st century playing techniques to develop experimental music that is representative of modern sound qualities. In addition, she places great attention to the long-term cross-collaboration between artists of different sounds, art media, languages and styles.
Photo/National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying)©
Production Team
Dance: HUANG Wei-jie, Si Pehbowen, TIEN Hsiao-tzu
Music: CHANG Chun-tzu, HO Guang-jie, HUANG Ya-nung, TAI Zih-ning
Presenter: National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying)
Producec: Studio Acht, Taiwan Musicians & Artists Promotion
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【2021 Weiwuying TIFA Contemporary Music Platform】Here and Now