HORSE
Metamorphosing towards new possibilities in the contemporary dance scene
Metamorphosing towards new possibilities in the contemporary dance scene
The visual identity of HORSE is a Chinese character made of three horses, indicating the strong motivation and explosive energy. Founded in 2004, HORSE has established a distinctive profile with delicate physical movements and unrestricted creativities.
Chen Wu-Kang, the artistic director, and Su Wei-Chia, the general director, both are choreographers and performers who have developed their unique art praxis. They continue to advance the company into the bright future, a period of metamorphism for them in the Taiwanese contemporary dance scene.
In 2008, Velocity has won the Taishin Arts Award Taiwan’s grand arts prize. In 2013, 2 Men has won the 1st prize and Audience Award in Kurt Jooss Preis.
HORSE also endeavours on international collaboration, outreach program and curatorial projects. Their recent projects include Primal Chaos (Dance x Sounds Improvisation), Back to the moment Dancing Talking Bar (dance screening and sharing), We Island Dance Festival and Inclusive Arts Program.
FreeSteps - Orogeny is a dynamic sculpture experiment of future dance.
FreeSteps - NiNi is SU Wei-chia’s solo work for unconventional space at the sixth year of his 10-years FreerSteps choreography development.
BEHALF is a collaboration between 2 contemporary Asian male choreographers (Pichet KLUNCHUN, CHEN Wu-Kang) who “dis/close” themselves: to each other and to the spectator.
FreeSteps - Orogeny
Choreographer: SU Wei-chia
Performer: CHEN Pei-Yung
Visual Design: HORSE
The human body combines with large-scale heterogeneous materials to become organic subjects. They construct transient dynamic connections unique to the present moment, carving out textures of fleeting transformation.
FreeSteps - NiNi
Choreography by SU Wei-chia.
FreeSteps - NiNi is SU’s solo work for unconventional space at the sixth year of his 10-years FreerSteps project, in which the performance takes place out of the theater and comes to people in their daily life. The audience encounters the dancer under a streetlamp in the city, where the surrounding, lighting, landscape, as well as themselves become materials for the creation.
In FreeSteps – NiNi, the dancer sets dance free from fixed imagination, expectations and assumptions. The body is frequently angular while the dancer remains in rotative as oasis of calm, oblivious to the busy city surroundings. The physicality of variation and rotation flowing through lights and shadows contribute to shape the vividly live body sculpture.
BEHALF
Choreography by Pichet KLUNCHUN and CHEN Wu-Kang.
BEHALF is a collaboration between 2 contemporary Asian male choreographers who “dis/close” themselves: to each other and to the spectator. Taking equal turns on stage, they reveal personal portraits in pure movement. These form short intriguing snapshots on power and iconography in fatherhood, heritage and self-making. One seeks to embrace patrimony; the other tries to reform it.
Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taiwan
DANCE Festival München, Germany
Taiwan FOKUS, Staatstheater Darmstadt, Germany
Japan Society, New York, USA
Version 2.0. National Taichung Theater, Taiwan
Nuit Blanche, Taipei, Taiwan
National Taichung Theater, Taiwan
One Dance Week, Boris Hristov House of Culture Lobby, Bulgaria
National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying), Taiwan
Toured internationally including NUS Arts Festival, Singapore; Chang Theatre, Thailand; Centre Pompidou, France; festival DDD, Portugal; and KAAI Theater, Belgium
