“Birdy”  &  “See you”

about the performances:

Birdy

In this duet, the female dancer dreams of a life of a bird and the male dancer symbolizes a supporter, a cage, a heart of mirror and a dream. However, in reality, people often feel trapped in their own little bubbles because of different morality, a different belief, different ideal, and different responsibility. We say to ourselves that we can’t always follow our heart and do whatever we want to do in order to chase the dream. We are trapped in the cage we build for ourselves. In this work, the female dancer wears a special headpiece called “Ling Zi”. Its long pheasant tail feathers oftenwere worn on warriors’ helmets in traditional Chinese opera in order to present the warriors’ power and skill. In this duet, “Ling Zi” presents an image of a bird, an extension of inner emotions, a desire to escape from reality. “Ling ZI’’ swings around as the dancer moves through space to express the real struggles and battle on the inside.

Credits:

Company: Hung Dance
Choreographer: Hung-Chung LAI
Dancers: I-Han CHENG, Lin-Yi CHIEN
Lighting: Hung-Chung LAI
Music: Awe by Roger Goula, The Wave: Tuesday by Max Richter
Costume: Hung-Chung LAI

“See you”

Meeting, crossing, connecting, distributing, leaving, those are we all have to do in our life till the end. Although we do not know when and where is the end, there is still the time and chances to let us practicing saying “See you…” and “Good bye”.
To face the distances among the inner world of the people is harder than facing the end of our life. The distances make people becoming strangers and pushing us to the far away. We are still practicing saying “See you…” if we have that chance..

Company: Hung Dance
Choreographer: Hung-Chung LAI
Dancers: I-Han CHENG, Lin-Yi CHIEN
Lighting: Hung-Chung LAI
Music: Definizione dell’impossibile, Notte senza fine, Distante by Tale Of Us
Costume: Hung-Chung LAI

Bios:

Hung Dance is a contemporary dance troupe founded on May 5,2017, by choreographer Hung-Chung Lai, who is also its Artistic Director. The name of the troupe “Hung” symbolizes soaring
into the sky. Inspired by oriental creative elements and its trademark contemporary dance vocabulary, the emerging troupe has garnered increasing recognition in Taiwan and on the
international stage, receiving invitations to join international choreography contests and dance festivals. Hung Dance had finished 73 performances, visited 35 cities and 15 nations.

Artistic Director Lai Hung-Chung

Hung-Chung Lai is a Taiwanese choreographer and the Artistic Director of Hung Dance. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and graduated from Taipei National University of Arts in 2012. during 2012-2018, as a special guest artist, Hung-Chung choreographed “Gravity”, “Distant Light”, “Grim Winter”, “false”, ”Light” and “Raining in the room” for the Kaohsiung City Ballet.

From 2015 to 2016, his choreographic work “Watcher” won the 1st prize, while “Stranger”, “Insistence of Beauty” and “Cloud” won special awards from the Ministry of Culture dance competition in Taiwan. In 2016, his work “Cloud” was invited to WDA-AP Korea
Dance Festival for a showcase performance. Lai was selected as one of the eight choreographers in the International Young Choreographer Project to create “Insistence of Beauty”. His two
other choreographic works, “Colored” and “Stranger”, were both invited to the 2015 WDA-Americas Conference & Festival held in Honolulu, Hawaii.

As an artistic director of Hung Dance, he specializes in drawing insights from everyday occurrences complemented by Taiji-inspired techniques to develop new dance
vocabularies that endow his dance pieces with the profound
serenity of oriental aesthetics.

The project is supported by Tbilisi City Hall

Date: 3 July
Hours:

20:00 – “Birdy”
20:30 – “See you”

by Hung Dance

 

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