《Islands》
“Every big fish has a fisherman’s name written on its back”— an urban legend that started WANG Yeu-Kwn’s journey of creating Islands. WANG Yeu-Kwn visited the island country in southeast Asia and began a conversation with the Indonesian dance artist Danang Pamungkas. This work tries to seek the connection and relationship between our body and the land, and to gradually recollect and identify who we really are as the islanders.
Through dance, we will be able to glimpse at the tenderness of the land, and the delicate energy sprung from the bond between human beings and islands.
About Creation
Stage Size: 15m(w) x 8m(D) x 6m(H)
Number of performers: 2
Number of tour party: 6
Age of Audience: 6+
Audience Capacity: 200-600
Length of show: 50 mins
Shimmering Production
Shimmering Production, founded in 2019 by WANG Yeu-kwn and LEE Yin-ying, focuses on contemporary experimental works and movement workshops for the general public. Its work Beings is the first installment of Wang’s “A Trilogy – Quest of Relationships” which won two awards at the 2021 Yokohama Dance Collection, and toured across Europe and Japan. It is also one of the seven international dance pieces that have just been shortlisted in the “The Rose International Dance Prize,” a brand-new biannual prize presented by Sadler’s Wells. The second installment, Islands, has been commissioned by Taiwan’s National Theater and Concert Hall and the National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying), and premieres in autumn 2024.
Contact Information
Contact Person
LEE Yin-ying
李尹櫻
