Have we ever reflected on the necessity to inherit or continue our traditional culture under the current technology-laden society? Can those exquisite crafts be replaced with new technologies? Behind each piece of time-honored craftwork are numerous dedicated craftsmen together with their perseverance and pursuit. With four scenario settings: ancient, today, virtual, real, the show combines new media technology with traditional seal patterns, achieving diversified superposition and extension of artistic information.
Artists from different cities, using their own skills, without too much rehearse makes the work breathtaking and unstable. Every show was a little bit different from the former one. We need audience with power inside and come into our work and share our feelings, keep the energy circle rolling so that the dancer under a pair of VR glasses with no pictures inside, could find her own way by the guidance of energy.Voice Player / Li KunCeremony Performer/ Ye RuijunAction Art Performer/ Huang Zi (Dancer)Artist / Hu Yanzi
Robert Wilson,who was born in Waco,Texas,is one of the most important theatre and isual artists.His stage design compromises a wide range of art mediums out of usual,including dance,movement,lighting,sculpture,music and text.His picture is aesthetic and full of emotion and his work has won a lot of praise from audiences and critics around the world.
Wenchung Lin finds traces of the subtle movements stimulated by the experimental thinking in Small End (2013), while the well-tuned body which shows its highly existence in its breath is integrated into the pure dance what Wenchung Lin has been famous for. Long River carries the expectations of an artist to embrace the artistic vision targeting medium/large-sized theatre, to digest what he has experienced while working in a smaller venue, to polish the artistic pursuit of the dance company, and to move forward to a bigger production. Wenchung Lin dance troupeWenchung Lin served Bill T. Jones Dance Company as the professional dancer for 7 years while his journey in USA. After his return,Wenchung Lin set up the dance troupe which he named after himselfe.“No body, no company,” and vice versaThe water images in his works represent how Wenchung Lin explores the mother culture and the “pan-Asian body,” which can be further traced back to his folk dance training. The Western experience in Bill T. Jones when he stayed in the USA forced him to question his own identity between tradition and modernity, resulting in the series works where the artist searched for his true self in the mother culture through water reflection. “The first question is how to differentiate my works from Cloud Gate and Taipei,China Folk Dance Theatre when we are all trying to bring the Western and the Eastern together,” says Lin, who confesses that there is no shortcut to find an answer. However, as long as something interesting comes up for him to dig into once in a while, he can continue the journey.