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Award-winning annual Fringe showcase returns to Edinburgh, August 3 to 28, 2022
Launched in 2014, Taiwan Season has maintained its status as an increasingly !hot tip" at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe because of the highquality dance, theatre and live performance it showcases. In more recent, Covid-era times it also garnered attention for its enterprising – and awardwinning – online presence.
Taiwan Season Performances 2022
Presented under the umbrella title A Glimpse of Taiwan, this year’s roster of carefully-chosen productions runs a gamut from full-on contemporary dance (See You) and thoughtfully stylised dance-theatre (The Whisper of the Waves) to cross-art form experimentation (TOMATO) and circus-style, multi-media spectacle (Light of Life). The four shows can be seen at Taiwan Season’s valued partner venues Summerhall or Dance Base or, in a welcome new partnership, Assembly. Details below.
Alongside these performances, Taiwan Season Symposium: Connecting with Taiwan is proud to offer three 90-minute discussions focused, respectively, on performance and technology; opportunities for female artists; and practical approaches to creativity and climate change. The first two sessions will occur both in- person (at Dance Base) and online on August 15, while the final session is an in-person event (presented in collaboration with the Danish Arts Foundation showcase #Danish at Fringe Central) on August 16. Again, more details below. Central Box Office 0131 226
Gifted young choreographer LAI HungChung's dynamic ensemble dance is a feast of intense motion and sensations inspired by ideas about loss, longing, confrontation and evasion. Watching the dancers'expressive bodies is akin to reading their minds.
The goddess of the sea invites you to a dazzling circus spectacle loaded with vivid sights and atmospheric sounds.
Diabolo Dance Theatre’ s unique show is a multi-media fantasy revolving around the diabolo – a spinning toy central to Taiwanese culture. If disaster were to strike, what would you do and who could you turn to? Shinehouse Theatre's deft, fluidly stylised production is a beautiful balancing act of text and movement, social issues and sheer theatrical poetry.
About the productions CHOU KUAN JOU TOMATO 15 :1 0 (30 Mins ) 16+ (nudity) Diabolo Dance Theatre L ight of Li fe 13 : 00 (45 Mins ) 3+ Hung Dance See You 17: 30 (60 Mins ) 5+ S hinehouse Theatre Th e Wh ispe r of t he Waves 16:1 0 (60 Mins) 12+ (nudity) Provocative independent artist CHOU Kuan-Jou's enticingly tasty performance is an absurdly funny consideration of gender issues from a feminist perspective. Here private manifestations of sexuality receive a rib-ticklingly public spin.
TOMATO 15:10 (30 Mins)Aug 3-28 (Mondays off ) 16+ (nudity)
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Choreographer: Kuan-Jou CHOU Manager: Shu-Han YANG Sound Design: Zhu-Chi LIU Lighting Design / Technical coordination: Yu-Chieh YAMG
Devised for three dancers, not to mention some ripe and shapely red fruit, TOMATO is a cultural experience both playful and provocative. Lust and desire are centrestage in a canny, capricious combination of live performance and live-camera documentation from the gifted young dancer-choreographer CHOU Kuan Jou. This enticingly tasty work is an absurdly funny expression of Chou’s ongoing interest in gender issues from a feminist perspective. Here private manifestations of sexuality receive a ribticklingly public spin. Ideal fare, then, for anyone curious about seriously tongue-in cheek, cross-art form exploration. CHOU Kuan Jou is a rising choreographer based in Taiwan. She also works as a theatre performer, artist and dance instructor. Inspired by bodies and behaviour in daily life, her recent work has focused on gender issues and feminism
Technician: Yu-Chen LO Graphic design: 58kg Performer: Kuan-Jou CHOU, Chi-Wai NG, Zito TSENG Assistant: Yan-Yu HE Instagram:Facebook:@tomatokuan@kuanchou@tomatokuan
Venue: Summerhall – Tech Cube Zero Prices: preview £10 (£8) / from Aug 5: £13 (£10) Aug 9: 2for1 / Fringe Friends
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TOMATO CHOU KUAN JOU
TOMATO
TOMATO CHOU KUAN JOU
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Director/Artistic Director: Le-Chun LIU Producer: Kuo-Hua PANG Music Director: Claudia YANG Brand Director: Wilson HSUEH Project Manager: Carrie HC KAO Stage Manager: Yi-Hsin CHIU Lighting Design: Ke-Qian CHE Image Design: Yu-Roy CHENG Costume Design: Ya-Jhen CHAN Props Design: Jhao-Siang WU
One Prices: previews £10.50 / from Aug 5: £12 - £15
Photographer: Bi-Cheng JIAN YunPerformer:LIU,Ting-Ting YAO, Hsin LIU, Wei LIU, Chia-Yu CHEN, Nai-Wen LIU, Pao-Ching TSAI, Yi-Jiun LIN, Chien-Chih LIN, Cheng-Hsueh SUN, Ling
Instagram:Facebook:Twitter:https://www.diabolo.tw/HSIA@DiaboloDance50@diabolodancetheatre@diabolodancetaiwan 3-28 (Mondays off ) (45 Mins)
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Aug 9: 2for1 / Group tickets (10% off)
Founded in 1986, Diabolo Dance Theatre has performed in more than 30 countries, including in Central and South America and the United States, and made regular visits to multiple major arts festivals in Asia. Centred round the art of diabolo, its work melds music, dance and contemporary circus with technology, lighting and visual design.
Venue: Assembly - George Square Studios
The goddess of the sea invites you to a dazzling circus spectacle celebrating the vitality of the Taiwanese as an imaginative oceanic people. Loaded with vivid sights and atmospheric sounds, Diabolo Dance Theatre’s unique show is a multi-media fantasy revolving around the diabolo – a spinning toy central to Taiwanese culture. Feats of grace and daring punctuate a narrative that plays powerfully with the four elements.
Full of seductively swirling colours and a constant flow of motion, and set to a cinematic yet soulful soundtrack featuring live indigenous vocals, this is all-ages entertainment for the ages.
Rehearsal Guidance: Yun LIU Executive Producer: Wei LIU, Natzu CHEN, Chingru LI
Light of Life Diabolo Dance Theatre
Light Diabolo Dance Theatre
Light of Life
Established in 2006, Shinehouse Theatre is based at the Wanhua Sugar Refinery Culture Park in Taipei. With over 30 productions under its belt, the company’s work embraces social issues, literary adaptations and ghost stories as well as community and inclusive outreach.
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Producer: Yu-Lan YEH Executive Producer: Ya-Han LI Technical Director: Zeke LEE Design: Ya-Yun KO Sound Design: Ming-Yi CHEN Sound Execution: Wan-Ting CHANG Design: Yi-Chen LEE Design: Luta LIU Terry LIN Videographer: Mon-Cher HO Japanese Translator: Aoi TSUMURA English Translator: Cheng-Yu (nudity) (Mondays off ) 16:10 (60 Mins)
Artistic Director/ Playwright: Po-Yuan Chung Choreographer / Performer: Emiko Agatsuma Comei LIAO, Yung-Yuan CHENG, Chia-Yi CHEN, Ting-Yi LI, Cheng-Yu HSIEH Yi-TingActor:FANG, Qi-Ling CHEN, Yu-Ling YE, Shao-Yi GAO, Zhen-Nan CAI, Chang-Mian ZHANG, Hung-Yu LIANG, Joseph LIN
Shinehouse Theatre returns to Summerhall with a beautiful balancing act of social issues and theatrical poetry. Text and movement dovetail in a deft, fluidly stylised production which poses a key question: If disaster were to strike, what would you do and who could you turn to?
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Instagram:Facebook:Twitter:https://www.shinehousetheatre.comHSIEH@ShinehouseTW@shinehousetheatre@shinehousetw Theof 12+
Aug 3-28
A lonely taxi driver shares a close bond with a sensitive potted plant. A loving same-sex couple are conflicted about surrogate parenting. Spirit mediums speak for these characters, voicing their innermost thoughts and feelings. The result is an affecting, ingenious consideration of both nature, human nature and our need for emotional rescue.
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Venue: Summerhall – Tech Cube Zero previews £10 (£8) Aug 5: £13 (£10) 9: 2for1 / Fringe Friends, Family tickets, Group tickets (10% off)
The Whisper of the Waves Shinehouse Theatre
The WhisperShinehouse Theatre
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17:30
LAI Hung-Chung is one of Taiwan’s most sophisticated young choreographers. This scintillating production for his company Hung Dance justifies the acclaim. It is a non-stop feast of intensely expressive motion and sensations inspired by ideas about loss, longing, confrontation and evasion. Watching the dancers" bodies is akin to reading their minds. The difficulty these resolutely modern people have in connecting may be their strongest connection. The net effect is both feverishly intimate yet coolly detached, qualities enhanced by handsomely sculpted lighting and the textured pulsations of a rhythmically varied score.
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Venue: Dance Base - Studio 1
Founded in 2017, Hung Dance’s name is derived from the Chinese character that means ‘to fly.’ Integrating elements of tai chi into contemporary thinking, LAI Hung-Chung's work expresses internal emotions through external physical states. He is also influenced by the subtle relationship between people and nature. The company has toured Asia and Europe, and is interested in developing further cultural exchanges via its International Collaboration Project.
Prices: previews £15 (£13) Aug 7: £14 - £18
Instagram:Facebook:Twitter:http://www.hungdance.com/@HungDance@hungdancetaiwan@hungdancetaiwan (Mondays off ) (60 Mins)
Artistic Director and Choreographer: Hung-Chung LAI Costume Designer: Yu-Teh YANG Lighting Designer: Chao-Yu TSAI Composer: Chia-Wei HSU Performer: I-Han CHENG, Kuan-Ling LEE, Ya-Ching YANG, Yu-Hsuan HUANG, Ying-Chieh LU, Chueh-Kai KUO, Shin-Jie WU, Tzu-Wen HO, Chi-Hsun CHEN Rehearsal Director: I-Han CHENG Company Manager: Ya-Yun HSIEH Tour Manager: I-Hsuan LI Public Relations: Yu-Hong LIN Technical Coordination: Yi-JU WU
See You Hung Dance
SeeHung Dance
See You
Taiwan Season Performances: !A Glimpse of Taiwan" is managed by Zhong He Creative International LTD and Step Out Arts, UK. Taiwan Season Online Symposium: ‘Connecting with Taiwan’ is curated by Step Out Arts, UK and organised by Culture Division, Taiwan Representative Office in the UK. Both the Performances and Symposium are supported by the Ministry of Culture, Taiwan. Press and media enquiries: Donald Hutera / donaldhutera@yahoo.com / 07914 621 884 No.439 Zhongping Road 13 Floor (South Building), Xinzhuang District, New Taipei City, Taiwan www.moc.gov.tw
