Culture

Concerts, Theater, Exhibitions, Festivals, Shows

Contemporary Opera

PORTENT

天中殺

March 17~19 National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts ( Weiwuying ) ( Kaohsiung City )

April 28~30 Taipei Performing Arts Center ( Taipei City )

Portent is a contemporary opera based on jazz music that also incorporates chamber music, vocals, and freestyle saxophone play. A creation by playwright and director Hung Hung, in cooperation with composer Li Yuanchen and jazz musician Hsieh Minyen, the opera allows the performers to explore new possibilities for artistic creation through the combination of different genres and styles. The plot is based on a short story by Taiwanese writer Huang Ling-zhi (1928~2016) depicting the hardship of the common people in post-war times. www.tpac-taipei.org

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Exhibition

LUMIÈRE: THE ENLIGHTENMENT AND SELF-AWAKENING OF TAIWANESE CULTURE

光─臺灣文化的啟蒙與自覺

Until April 24

Museum of National Taipei University of Education ( Taipei City )

This exhibition presents works from the 1920s through 1940s, a time of cultural and political awakening in Taiwan during the last two decades of occupation by the Japanese. Behind the national self-determination and civil-rights movement of the time was the Taiwan Cultural Association, established in 1921. The political movement went hand in hand with cultural innovation, with new artistic concepts flourishing in paintings, sculptures, novels, plays, and films. This exhibition attempts to traverse the aesthetic styles of the works and tell the personal journeys of artists from that period as it explores the specificities of the era and the ways in which artists gathered strength from within. montue.ntue.edu.tw

Exhibition

MINDSET•MATERIALS•MEDITATION: HWANG BUH-CHING

惟•物•觀：黃步青

Until April 9 Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts ( Kaohsiung City )

Taiwanese artist Hwang Buh-ching, born in 1947, is a pioneer of using mixed media for artistic expression. This exhibition presents a collection of his works across different periods of his career, starting with sketches, paintings, and works he created in his earlier days using mixed media such as newspaper, wood, and found objects to works created in recent years mainly using steel and disposed objects. One of his most representative works, Feast in the Wild, which was shown during the 48th Venice Biennale in 1999, is included in this exhibition.

Exhibition

2023 HENGSHAN CALLIGRAPHY

BIENNIAL: ERA OF PRINCIPLE AND NO PRINCIPLE INTERWOVEN— CALLIGRAPHY AS A VISUAL FORM 2023橫山書藝雙年展：法與無法交織的年代─書法作為 一種視覺形式

Until April 24 Hengshan Calligraphy Art Center ( Taoyuan City)

Opened in 2021, the Hengshan Calligraphy Art Center is a branch of the Taoyuan Museum of Fine Arts and the perfect place for appreciating fine works of calligraphy. This exhibition, the first Hengshan Calligraphy Biennial held at the center, focuses on the influence and development of calligraphy in the context of contemporary art, seeking to invigorate the development of contemporary calligraphy. The show features works by 42 calligraphers from various countries, presenting multifaceted contemporary calligraphy from around the world in an attempt to explore the future of the art form. tmofa.tycg.gov.tw

Dance

Legacy

薪傳

April 21~31 National Theater ( Taipei City )

May 5~7 National Taichung Theater ( Taichung City )

May 12~14 National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts ( Weiwuying ) ( Kaohsiung City ) www.cloudgate.org.tw

Legacy was created by internationally renowned choreographer Lin Hwai-min in 1978 when Cloud Gate, Taiwan’s foremost moderndance company, was just five years old. It is an homage to the modern-era pioneers of Taiwan, who came across the Taiwan Strait to settle on the island in the 17th century. The work has been presented internationally with 174 performances around the world, and is widely acclaimed as a masterpiece of choreography. In celebration of Cloud Gate’s 50 th anniversary this year, Legacy has been revived.

Performance

2023 NTT ARTS NOVA

2023 NTT藝想春天

March 10~June 4

National Taichung Theater ( Taichung City )

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National Taichung Theater’s annual NTT Arts NOVA is a series of performances in spring with a focus on “New,” as in “a new start”, “a new happening,” “a new world” with new ideas, visions, and perspectives. The program features a wide variety of stage performances featuring talent from Taiwan and abroad, including contemporary theater, indigenous dance and music, modern dance, dance combined with technology, a multimedia solo performance about music in history, puppet theater, percussion music, and more.

www.npac-ntt.org/ArtsNova