Workshop_Liu Yi-Chun

Workshop Info.

Date｜2023/11/27 (Mon.) - 12/01 (Fri.) 14:00-18:00
Language of Instruction｜English
Additional Info. for Participants｜ Prior dance experience required

Workshop Description

Theatrical Body
Yi-Chun’s dance theater workshop is based and developed around her extensive and wide-ranging performance and teaching expertise, allied with her experience of co-creating with dance theatre company Peeping Tom since 2013.
She will use this workshop to further investigate her fascination with the question of how we can create a poetic physical language to transcend and transform the human body, (beyond its daily use), to enable us to touch something deeper and more profound in us and the other, which might be said to be even more real than reality.
Working with both physical and mental tools to condition one’s state of being, to accommodate the creative process, find freedom from ideas we have about ourselves and thus be able to express ourselves anew. Through the workshop we will search for our own authenticity (in intuition, memories, and feelings) while generating a path for expressions to expand beyond ourselves, and thus touch others.

A Brief Biography of Artist

Taiwan｜Liu Yi-Chun
Born in 1985, Taichung, Taiwan. Graduated from College of Dance of Taipei National University of the Arts in 2007. She has received a versatile training, including classical Western dance such as ballet, modern and contemporary dance techniques, as well as Eastern classical trainings like Chinese opera, folk and various martial arts. Her current practice is centered around Tai Chi Dao Ying and Countertechnique but also uses urban dance, mime and physical theatre. Yi-Chun has an acute awareness of her body and its relationship to space and time, allowing her to fully explore her transformative movement quality. 
In 2007, she created the duet Disappeaer with Sih-wei Lou, upon invitation by the Taipei National Theater, and joined Cloud Gate Dance Theater of Taiwan. She subsequently traveled to Europe and danced with Anouk van Dijk, Felix Landerer, Shang-Chi Sun, Ann Van den Broek, and Scapino Ballet, amongst others. 
In 2013, Yi-Chun joined Peeping Tom as a dancer and performer. She has remained with the company, primarily as a co-creator and dancer, but also in diverse functions such as artistic assistant and costume. She has been a part of Vader (2014), Moeder (2016), Kind (2019), The Missing Door (2013), The Lost Room (2015), The Hidden Floor (2017), Triptych (2020), Dido & Aneas (2020), La Visita (2021,2022), and S 62° 58’, W 60° 39’ (2023)

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