Yen-Cheng Liu
- Oct. 24-Nov. 13. 2022: Online screening of dance film Anonymous No. 2.
- May 2022: Premiere of his new piece 1+1000 NIGHTS in Wellspring Theater, Taipei.
- Feb. 16-18. 2022: Dua Shin Te Production and HoooH joined hand for an outdoor performance for “Taiwan Lantern Festival in Kaohsiung”.
- Nov. 20211: He participated 2021 Weiwuying Circus Platform and presented Imaginary Tragedy on both Dua Shin Te Production and Weiwuying’s YouTube channels.
- Sep. 2021: He shared his field study in the “Artist Lab-Shin Lin Study” of ADAM (Asia Discovers Asia Meeting).
- Apr. 2021: He presented A PIECE OF CAKE in Spring Arts Festival of Chang Gung University.
- Dec. 14. 2020: For “Museum of Human E-motions 2.0”, he presented Anonymous No.2 via live performance as well as on-line streaming. Here he proposed a mixed setting of participatory theater and pre-recorded videos. Answering the project’s proposition, he uses “excitement” as a starting point and an inspiration for the construction of narrative space.
- Sep.-Dec. 2020: He participated in the “Museum of Human E-motions 2.0”, an online exchange project co-organized by Aerowaves, National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts-Weiwuying (Taiwan), CSC Bassano del Grappa (Italy), CDCN du Val-de-Marne (France), Saison Foundation (Japan) and West Kowloon Cultural District (Hong Kong).
- Nov. 7. 2020: Selected by the Taiwan Dance Platform, he made a proscenium adaptation of A PIECE OF CAKE, and present it at the Playhouse of National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (WeiWuying).
Choreographer, performer, music designer and artistic director of Dua Shin Te Production.
Born in 1986 in Nantou, Taiwan. Graduated from Graduate Institute of Dance, Taipei National University of the Arts.
Liu’s works often exhibit his thematic interest in human existence. The ethos of his creations is that “the life exists when the body exists; the body exists when the movement exists.” His approach is to return to rudimentary origins of body movements, seek the awakening of physical knowledges, and pursue the body’s boundless possibilities. By excavating performance movements from daily life, and by integrating other important materials, such as objects, visual or audio elements into our works, he attempts to create fantasy in reality, and reality in fantasy.
His persistent research and creation have won many supports and invitations: from LMF Dance Fund (2013 and 2016), Cloud Gate Art Makers Project (2016), NTCH Art Residency Project (2017), Asian Performing Arts LAB. (2019), and “Museum of Human Emotions,” Weiwuying’s cooperation project with Aerowaves. With his work Nowhere he was awarded a special prize for choreography by Beijing International Ballet and Choreography Competition in 2013. His duet piece Tschüss!! Bunny, the winner of S-AN Artistic Creation Award, has toured from Taiwan, Malaysia, Hong Kong, US, Spain, France, to Germany.
His choreography pieces include 1+1000 Nights (2022), Anonymous No.2 (2022), A PIECE OF CAKE (2019), The End of Journey (2018), Monster (2017), under surface (2016), The Highest Place-All the Same (2015), Tschüss!! Bunny (2013).
Dance Film: Anonymous No.2
Yen-Cheng Liu and his contemporary peer, film director Ki-Yan Chan ponder the state of the world and infuse their thoughts into this dance film. Does it provoke awakening, resistance, or revelry? Who is the anonymous, and is their participation in the social movement an emotional engagement or a dispassionate observation? …more…
1+1000 Nights
Inspired by the literary technique of “The One Thousand and One Nights,” which assembles and layers loosely interrelated tales within a main story, 1+1000 Nights explores the complex truth and its multiple layers, as well as the power of human imagination …more…
Imaginary tragedy – no sacrifice, no victory
Let’s play a game, a game of tragedy and sorrow. It is sanctifying suffering or death, for the possibility of becoming an important character, for the title of a tragic hero, and for the blood rush. Although death is inevitable, the spirit left behind is immortal and indestructible. At the very end, we will not mourn for it.
In this digital age people move between the virtual and the real, encountering sentiments that can be understood but never be experienced first-hand, thus entering a state of alienation. The distant revolutions, wars, sufferings, or diseases……become even more unreal. Imaginary tragedy – No sacrifice, no victory reconstructs the tragedy in the form of “playing house” and interweaves presence with absence.
Credit：
Creation: Yen-Cheng Liu | Performance: Ying-Lin Tsou, Chu-Hua Wang, Yu-Fan Liu | Technical Coordination: Jui-Hsuan Tseng | Video photography: Guan-Yu Chen | Video Design: Wei-Hsuan Huang
Online Performance: Nov. 27, 2021 on Weiwuying’s YouTube Channel, as part of 2021 Weiwuying Circus Platform.
A PIECE OF CAKE
Amid humorous gestures and serious steps, a woman and a man gently touch on the invisible dismal and obscure weight of life. With a relaxed attitude that feels like “a piece of cake”, they quietly stir up the anxiety hidden in the contemporary life …more…
The End of Journey
Tangible waste is called “rubbish” whereas intangible waste is called “sacrifice”. But when something, or someone, becomes a useless waste, dose it really mean that such subject or person reaches the end of journey? …more…
Monster
Set in a daytime psychedelic mood, Monster is like a journey to retrace the time and an individual’s existence. I chase after himself, stand still, pace back and forth, and push onward recklessly. I start in a straight line, but then the path spins, twists and deforms …more…
Tschüss!! Bunny
Say goodbye to your past self, and embrace a brand-new one! While one’s self fades away with the passing of time, should one accept the new self and restart? Or should one keep fighting the tides of time with his/her own old identity? …more…