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Celebrating the future of humanity through the lens of technology
Celebrating the future of humanity through the lens of technology
Taiwanese choreographer and inventor Huang Yi’s pioneering work is steeped in his fascination with the partnership between humans and robots. He interweaves continuous movement with mechanical and multimedia elements to create a form of dance which corresponds with the flow of data, effectively making the performer a dancing instrument.
Huang has been Artist-in-Residence of the National Theater & Concert Hall, the National Performing Arts Center, Taiwan, and is widely considered one of Asia’s most prolific choreographers.
Huang’s groundbreaking and award-winning work, Huang Yi & KUKA, in which he and his dancers perform alongside an industrial robot he programmed, has opened the Ars Electronica Festival (Austria), TED Conference (Vancouver), and toured globally since 2015 including in Australia, the Americas, Europe, Asia, and the UAE.
Huang Yi premiered Under the Horizon, a hybrid opera, in collaboration with Berlin-based Ryoichi Kurokawa and the Netherlands Chamber Choir, in Holland and Taiwan in 2018. In February 2019 he premiered A Million Miles Away at Taiwan’s celebrated National Theater. His latest work, Ink, premiered at the National Taichung Theater and the National Theater in Taipei in June 2023. Ink had its North American premiere at Lincoln Center in November 2024 and will be featured in the inaugural season of the new Doris Duke Theater at the renowned Jacob’s Pillow in August 2025.
Ink
In their newest collaboration Ink, choreographer Huang Yi and audiovisual pioneer Ryoichi Kurokawa dismantle and reconstruct the lines from a hundred artworks in renowned calligrapher Tong Yang-Tze’s “Silent Music” series, exploring the various texture between body, sound, visual, and space.
Ink
In their newest collaboration Ink, choreographer Huang Yi and audiovisual pioneer Ryoichi Kurokawa dismantle and reconstruct the lines from a hundred artworks in renowned calligrapher Tong Yang-Tze’s “Silent Music” series, exploring the various texture between body, sound, visual, and space. Hovering between delicate and frantic dynamics, Yi digs deeper into his cultural roots and reveals a wild movement language, turning dancers’ bodies into brushes that paint and leave marks on stage.
Ink had its North American premiere at Lincoln Center in November 2024 and will be featured in the inaugural season of the new Doris Duke Theater at the renowned Jacob’s Pillow in August 2025.
With speed and a ferocious vocabulary, dancers churn like a vortex in one moment, only to become flowing liquid in the next. Kurokawa transforms the inkblots into luminous tracks, echoing and merging with the unique brushstrokes of Tong, constructing a continuous flow of paintings via stunning holographic projection. Combining Yi’s explosive and precise language and Kurokawa’s meticulous and sophisticated artistry, Ink is a work that crosses borders and fuses analog and digital, reflecting the harmonic tension between the realms of ancient practice and future design.
Artistic Direction, Concept & Choreography: Huang Yi Calligraphy: Tong Yang-Tze Audiovisuals: Ryoichi Kurokawa
North American Tour under planning
Becket, MA / Jacob’s Pillow / 20-24 Aug 2025
Pasadena, California / California Institute of Technology (Caltech) / 18-19 Oct 2024 (Huang Yi & KUKA)
Corvallis, Oregon / PRAx, Oregon State University / 23-24 Oct 2024 (Huang Yi & KUKA)
Gallatin Gateway, MT / Warren Miller Performing Arts Center / 29 Oct 2024 (Huang Yi & KUKA)
New York, New York / Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts / 2-3 Nov 2024
Austin, Texas / Texas Performing Arts / 7 Nov 2024 (Ink)
Raleigh, NC / NC State LIVE / 15 Nov 2024 (Huang Yi & KUKA)
Miami, Florida / Live Arts Miami / 22-23 Nov 2024 (Huang Yi & KUKA)
Co-commissioned by the National Taichung Theater and National Theater, Taipei in Taiwan and had its world premiere in June 2023.
Huang Yi & KUKA
