Workshop: Lin Yu-Ju✕Tien Hsiao-Tzu

Workshop Info.

Date｜2025/11/10 (Mon.) - 11/14 (Fri.) 
Language of Instruction｜English

Additional Info. for Participants｜The workshop will include physical activities, please wear comfortable clothing.

Workshop Description

Imagining 25°02′15″N 121°33′45″E (Here – Elsewhere)

Participants may be curious as to why we are giving a workshop together? We are clearly very different. How can it be that we are also a little alike? We share a certain unique quality based on the sum of our lives, culture, time, and environment. We gather at 25°02′15″N 121°33′45″E and from "imagination of the other" share real-life/physical experiences and discuss how Taiwanese culture has influenced and shaped our physical forms. We hope that through these activities that participants perceive and experience some Eastern (Taiwanese) flavor from the perspective of the body. 

About the Artist

Lin Yu-Ju, born in Hualien, Taiwan. A former dancer, now a freelance artist, she is mainly engaged in corporal creations, performances and outreach programs. Her works often focus on educational and cultural context. She is fond of minimalism, but also fascinated by chaos and collages. Recently she often incorporates objects, behavioral observation and historical images into her works, and uses the universality to contrast with the particularity of characters, attempting to unsettle the audience’s perceptions and thoughts. In recent years, as a player both in the theatre and non-theatre fields, she has engaged in festivals and works across various disciplines ─ multimedia, fashion and other body-related fields ─ and continues to have fun by conducting dialogues and collaborations.

For more information: https://vimeo.com/linyuju

Tien Hsiao-Tzu, born in Tainan, Taiwan. Taiwan Freelance choreographer, dancer and performer. In recent years, Tien puts focus of her choreography research on human emotions shaped by time, history, culture and environment. Regarding choreography as the chisel of life, Tien attempts to cut away the contradictions and labels that hinder self-exploration, and uncover powerful emotions deposited in the body. While looking into the desire and fear in life, she also looks for the exits of life’s trajectories, as well as their various possibilities. She also develops the potentials of body and movements through international exchange and collaboration with visual, theater or performance arts, keeping connected with foreign cultures and other disciplines.

For more information: http://www.projectzerotw.com/en/hsiaotzu-tien