Hung Dance Body Language Technique

Description:

The workshop demonstrates Hung Dance’s movement language techniques, focusing on the dynamic and stationary space around the body. Setting out from a single point of movement, joints and muscles on the body are deconstructed, where only an individual part is allowed to move at a time while the rest of the body remains stationary. Furthermore, the round and twirling elements of Taiji become the forces gradually moving other muscles and joints on the body. This technique can be applied to any part of the body to create unique movement logic and mechanical body language that is both dynamic and stationary at the same time.

* Taiji is a Chinese cosmological term for the “Supreme Ultimate” state of undifferentiated absolute and infinite potential, the oneness before duality, from which Yin and Yang originate, can be compared with the old Wuji

Teacher: Hung-Chung LAI(Artistic Director)、I-Han CHENG(Rehearsal Director)

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 specialises 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

Dates: 6, 13 July
Hour: 20:00
Duration: 1 hour

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