Premiere Time

2011.11.10 (Thu.) – 11.13 (Sun.) 19:30 

2011.11.17 (Thu.) – 11.20 (Sun.) 19:30 

2011.11.24 (Thu.) – 11.27 (Sun.) 19:30

Premiere Venue

Huashan 1914 Creative Park E2 Building B

Successor, a dance-sound-installation-space project, was first conceived in 2008 when the artistic director of HORSE Dance Theater, Chen Wu-Kang and member Chou Shu-Yi, incidentally visited the terraces of HuaShan, the former wine factory built in 1916 and now preserved as multi-functional venue. Chen Wu-Kang recollects the moment: “I was in one corner of the building and Shu-Yi was on the other side, and he ran to me. At that moment you could see the conversation between the relatively slight body and the relatively huge space, which I find to be akin to what happens at every certain stage of life, as you contemplate on what you have, what is the next and what to begin with. It was how the idea for Successor began, hoping to enact a meeting between the historical space and our beings.”

 

The artistic collaboration for Successor has been the most progressive and interdisciplinary in HORSE’s history: four members of the group Volume-Collectif, including sound artists Yannick Dauby, Christophe Havard, Hughes Germain and visual artist, TSAI Wan-Shuen, were invited to join this project. An art-collective from the North-West of France, Volume-Collectif integrates the act of listening as the core of its projects: research and creations with sound, on-site and multi-media installations, diffusion and pedagogy. Besides Volume-Collectif, a total of 11 artists/performers from various backgrounds participated in Successor, including professional dancers, a tap dancer, theater actors and playwrights, from Taiwan, Italy and Israel. Given the creation concept, the performing space, and the amount of artists involved, Successor is indeed the biggest challenge HORSE has undertaken in terms of collaborative choreography of space.

 

After two-years’ development and one year of rehearsals, HORSE and Volume-Collectif together presented Successor, an exhibition and performance of sound and space at HuaShan, shaping the work in a series of three different forms during three weeks. The dance-sound-installation-space project took over a 1600 square-meters area, presenting an exhibition at daytime and a live performance in the evening, aiming to explore more possibilities for visual, acoustic, and surrounding live experiences for the performers, the audience, and the space itself.   

 

Successor aims to break the divisions and contrapositions between performers/spectators, stage/auditorium, foci/sightlines, and subjective/objective through the cohesive unity of sound arts, visual installation design and dance movement. The audience is not here only to observe, but to be observed: indeed, the audience is the very essential element that completes the visual-spatial-auditory landscape.

PRESS

Successor is HORSE’s largest and arguably best production since its inception! The ways of thinking and depth displayed in this dance work are perhaps unmatched in Taiwan’s dance circle!

 

Spanning three weeks in duration, the performance differs from week to week but should be seen in its entirety. Additionally, on weekdays daytime, the installations on-site along with music are presented as a stand-alone exhibition to convey a separate concept. As a title, the word Successor doesn’t carry much meaning. The key is what is defined on-site and what is happening at present. The dramatic title, however, does give this dance piece a thought-provoking depth.”

                       ZOU Jhih-Mu, Performing Arts Review Platform

Credit

Project Concept|CHEN Wu-kang, SU Wei-Chia, Yannick Dauby, TSAI Wan-Shuen 

Collaborators|CHEN Wu-kang, SU Wei-Chia, Shu-Yi, WANG Daniel, CHOU Chun-Peng, HUANG Yung-huai, HUANG Huai-Te, LIU Kuan-Hsiang, WEI Chun-Chan, Mauro Sacchi, Shai Tamir

Choreography Concept|CHEN Wu-kang,  SU Wei-Chia

Sound Installation/Musician|Yannick Dauby、Hughes Germain、Christophe Havard

Visual Installation|TSAI Wan-Shuen 

Technical Director/Lighting Design|LIU Chia-Ming 

Costume and Style|Keith Lin

Stage Manager|CHEN Ching-Hsiung 

Exhibition Installation|ART WAR COMPANY、LEE Tsung-Min、HUANG Han-Cheng 

Rehearsal Assistant|CHIANG Yu-Lun 

Photography|CHEN Chang-Chih 

Graphic Design|NIU Jun-Qiang 

Producer|HSU Wen-Hsuan 

Production Manager|HUANG Wen 

Associate Producer|Cordelia Yang

Marketing|HSIEH Shan-Shan 

Production team|Aeropack Design & Production Company

Sound Production|Jie-Yun Audio Equipment Company

Organizer|
驫舞劇場 HORSE

Supporting Sponsor|NSFG Foundation, Sheu Yuan-Tung Memorial and Educational Foundation