The video documents the Walk/Dance Project by YU Yen-Fang and CHEN Wu-Kang, two iconic middle-aged dance artists in Taiwan, against the backdrop of the island’s geography.
In the initial stage, Yu and Chen followed the artist KAO Jun-Honn’s field survey of the ruined Topa Frontier Lines from the Japanese Occupation to trek into the mountains, transforming the bumpy physicality across the woods and the perceptual impact of the encounter with historical sites into an improvised performance taking place at the dance studio of HORSE in Banqiao, Xinbei City.
The Walk/Dance Project, as its title suggests, is about the body walking and dancing across the daily streets and historical sites, presented with possible real-time forms including exhibition, live stream, and live performance. It is the minstrelsy of the body, characterized with a fragile quality of immediacy, makeshift, and ephemerality to manage a direct and yet transparent path as expressed physically.
Production Team
Commissioned by National Taichung Theater, Taiwan
Produced by Dark Eyes Performance Lab
Project Director/ Concept/ Performance: YU Yen-Fang
Co-Creator/ Performance : CHEN Wu-K
Mountain guide: KAO Jun-Honn
Primal Chaos Dance x Sounds Improvisation
Performers: YU Yen-Fang, CHEN Wu-Kang, Sayun CHANG
Cinematography/ Editing: Maurice LAI
Project Manager: Sandy CHEN
Project Coordinator: Emma LIAO
English Subtitle Translation: CHANG Ting-Wei CHANG
Trailer English Subtitle Translation: Siraya PAI
Special thanks to artist Kao Jun-Honn who generously shared his long time research in the following historical area of Llyung Topa: Mt. Zhulu in Sanxia, Mt. Bonbon, Mt. Sibokke in Hsinchu. And a special thank you to the spirit of the mountains and predecessors who protected us during the walking and dancing.
Also to HORSE, Primal Chaos Dance x Sounds Improvisation
Tour Date
- years
- 2021
- month
- 25-26 Feb
- location
- Singapore
- venue
- Online
- years
- 2021
- month
- 10-12 Mar.
- location
- Kaohsiung, Taiwan
- venue
- 衛武營國家文化藝術中心 展覽廳National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts – Exhibition Hall
- years
- 2021
- month
- 10-12 Mar.
- location
- Taichung, Taiwan
- venue
- 臺中國家歌劇院 角落沙龍National Taichung Theater – Corner Salon
- years
- 2021
- month
- 29-30 Mar.
- location
- Hong Kong, China
- venue
- 大館 賽馬會立方Tai Kwun – JC Cube