2022TCAF:Fist & Cake Production The Immovable Elephant

"Let’s walk into the dream again, in order to find the promise in the childhood. In the dream, there are many more partners, working together to team up to win the game. Let’s go find the immovable elephant! My friends, please give us a magic power. Adults and children alike, we’ve all imagined ourselves having a bunch of reliable companions. As children we fantasized about saving the world. When we grow up, we still believe that we can change the world. We adults used to have elephant-shaped slides growing up with us in the playground when we were young. Now, is there still that ""elephant"" beside the children? The story of a group of good friends seeking dreams for an unsung hero is about to begin. 

The Immovable Elephant is a work that combines toys, game, sound, image and live interaction for both parents and children. You are welcome to the theater and follow us to have fun and make works of art together, while we also make choices and take responsibilities for them in the process.
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"Fist & Cake Production x Tsai Yu-Ting

Tsai Yu-Ting, who won the ""Play Scripts for Children"" award at the 2020 Taipei Children's Arts Festival, creates an interactive performance that allows parents and children alike to enjoy. This play is a  collaboration with the Fist & Cake Production, founded by new parents Fangas Nayaw and I-Fen Tung.

Fist & Cake Production was founded by choreographer I-Fen Tung and stage director Fangas Nayaw. The creative themes of the two artists focus on the dynamic trends of human beings in society and nature. They believe that as long as they continue to explore the natural world, the whims of human nature in society can be heard. The works published are all built on the foundation of performing arts.

It further explores the diversity of the circulation of contemporary performing arts, constantly crossing the boundaries between drama, dance, exhibition, installation, sound, multimedia, and film. Hybrid is the main style of ""Fist & Cake Production"" creation.

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"Fangas Nayaw

Co-Artistic Director of Fist & Cake Production. 
Born in Taitung, Taiwan. Fangas is an artist, director, choreographer, and performer. His versatile practices probe into the dynamics of audience participation and the possibilities of new technology in the performing arts, while constantly reflecting on his indigenous identity and cultural tradition as Amis. These are seen in Don’t worry, be happy (2009), Farewell, Lin-Ban (2013), Tsou (“Name of Tribe”, 2015), Maataw (“Floating Island”, 2016), si, kaen (“Eating”, 2017), XXIX Summer Universiade Opening Program I (2017) and Alikakay (“The Giant”, 2019). His VR film work, A Song within Us, was selected in the SXSW VR competition 2020; the performance work, masingkiay: Co-creating a Collective, was invited to Cosmopolis #2 in Pompidou Centre, Paris in 2019. His directorial and choreographic work, Mailulay, won the 14th Taishin Arts Award in 2016 (as one of the four annual prize winners). He is performance coordinator of 2020 & 2021 Nuit Blanche Taipei, 2021 Taiwan Cultural Expo. in the theme pavilion. Invited artists of 10th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, contemporary Indigenous Art from Taiwan. As a director, choreographer, performer, and lecturer, Fangas Nayaw has participated in the artworks and activities of various representative venues, including NTCH, NTT, Weiwuying Center for the Arts, and Taipei Art Festival.

Tsai Yu-Ting
Nicknamed as ""Summer"" in the field of education and literature, Tsai is currently a program planning specialist and host of children's programs produced by Taiwan PTS, a teacher at Taipei Film and Television Experimental High School, a content creator focuses on social issues, as well as a program planner for technology and arts & culture education. Recently, she has been working on an art education program fostering the communication between youth and seniors at an art institution. Tsai enjoys cross-disciplinary self-learning or co-learning, and trivia knowledge with no limits.

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