“We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.”
— T. S. Eliot, *Little Gidding*
A note from one of my graduate school acting teachers became the starting point of my search for the “foot.”
That search for an answer brought me from Taiwan to Toga, a theatrical village nestled in the Japanese mountains, where I began studying the Suzuki Method of Actor Training.
Over the following years, I participated in several international workshops and organized regular training sessions with actors in Taiwan. Eager to continue deepening my practice, I often found myself wishing that I could train on a daily basis.
Last year, that opportunity arrived.
I was fortunate to join SCOT (Suzuki Company of Toga) as a trainee company member and spend five months living in Toga. Sharing daily life, work, and training with the company became an experience that profoundly shaped me. What I learned extended far beyond the training itself. Through the body, I began to encounter something more fundamental: how a person thinks, perceives, and exists in the world.
What began as a journey in search of technique unexpectedly opened a series of questions about the body, culture, land, and self. Even after returning to Taiwan, these questions have continued to unfold through the process of creation, leading me to rediscover and re-examine myself again and again.
"The Inches Walked" is a beginning.
For this project, I invited Lee Pin-Ying, who participated in a workshop in Toga last year, to collaborate with me. Drawing from our shared physical vocabulary, training memories, and cultural experiences, we revisit and dismantle the training itself while reflecting on the relationship between actor and environment, body and land through our different understandings, creative backgrounds, and stages of life. Between looking back and moving forward, we allow the rigor of Toga to settle once again into the air of Taiwan.
To meet the audience as who we are today, and to simply say:
Lí-hó. (“Hello” in Taiwanese.)
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.”
— T. S. Eliot, *Little Gidding*
A note from one of my graduate school acting teachers became the starting point of my search for the “foot.”
That search for an answer brought me from Taiwan to Toga, a theatrical village nestled in the Japanese mountains, where I began studying the Suzuki Method of Actor Training.
Over the following years, I participated in several international workshops and organized regular training sessions with actors in Taiwan. Eager to continue deepening my practice, I often found myself wishing that I could train on a daily basis.
Last year, that opportunity arrived.
I was fortunate to join SCOT (Suzuki Company of Toga) as a trainee company member and spend five months living in Toga. Sharing daily life, work, and training with the company became an experience that profoundly shaped me. What I learned extended far beyond the training itself. Through the body, I began to encounter something more fundamental: how a person thinks, perceives, and exists in the world.
What began as a journey in search of technique unexpectedly opened a series of questions about the body, culture, land, and self. Even after returning to Taiwan, these questions have continued to unfold through the process of creation, leading me to rediscover and re-examine myself again and again.
"The Inches Walked" is a beginning.
For this project, I invited Lee Pin-Ying, who participated in a workshop in Toga last year, to collaborate with me. Drawing from our shared physical vocabulary, training memories, and cultural experiences, we revisit and dismantle the training itself while reflecting on the relationship between actor and environment, body and land through our different understandings, creative backgrounds, and stages of life. Between looking back and moving forward, we allow the rigor of Toga to settle once again into the air of Taiwan.
To meet the audience as who we are today, and to simply say:
Lí-hó. (“Hello” in Taiwanese.)
Huang Yi-Chen x MISSTAKE
Huang Yi-Chen holds an MFA from the Graduate Institute of Theatre Performance and Playwriting at Taipei National University of the Arts. She was formerly a trainee company member of the Suzuki Company of Toga (SCOT) in Japan. In recent years, her work has focused on physical training and the ongoing exploration of the body's creative possibilities.
Founded by Lee Pin-Ying, MISSTAKE is an experimental performance platform centered on the body. The company is dedicated to exploring the essence of performance and investigating the body as a point of departure for artistic creation.
The two artists first met through a Suzuki workshop and began this collaboration through their shared interest in physical training. Starting from the Suzuki Actor Training Method, they seek to reconsider the relationships between body, creation, and performance through both shared experiences and differing perspectives.
Founded by Lee Pin-Ying, MISSTAKE is an experimental performance platform centered on the body. The company is dedicated to exploring the essence of performance and investigating the body as a point of departure for artistic creation.
The two artists first met through a Suzuki workshop and began this collaboration through their shared interest in physical training. Starting from the Suzuki Actor Training Method, they seek to reconsider the relationships between body, creation, and performance through both shared experiences and differing perspectives.
Producer | Huang Yi-Chen
Created and Performed by | Huang Yi-Chen, Lee Pin-Ying
Creative Mentor | Ding I-Hsuan
Lighting Design | Lin Han-Sheng
Assistant Lighting Design | Chen Chia-Chi
Music and Sound Design | Tsai Bing-Heng
Technical Director | Hu Hao-En
Photography and Videography | Yang Yung-Yu
Created and Performed by | Huang Yi-Chen, Lee Pin-Ying
Creative Mentor | Ding I-Hsuan
Lighting Design | Lin Han-Sheng
Assistant Lighting Design | Chen Chia-Chi
Music and Sound Design | Tsai Bing-Heng
Technical Director | Hu Hao-En
Photography and Videography | Yang Yung-Yu
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