In 2009, Dance Forum Taipei drew on German playwright Büchner’s masterpieces and French playwright Younie Skoda’s creative fairy tales, and gave birth to Peculiar Journey of Leonce and Lena that brought together poet/director Hung Hung and Germany-educated choreographer LAI Tsui-shuang in an unprecedented cooperation. In 2010, emerging choreographer Marina Mascarell from the Netherlands Dance Theater stirred the hearts of many with the lyrical re-innovation of Like an Olive Tree. In February 2012, Dance Forum Taipei will once again introduce a bodily sensual composition that transcends literature, the physical body, and sound, creating a realm of pure aesthetics.
Will There Really Be a “Morning”? is the result of a serendipitous encounter between a French and a Taiwanese. It all started when French choreographer Myriam Herve-Gil met Taiwanese theater star HSU Yen-ling at the 2009 Avignon Fringe Festival. The two theater artists have always been enchanted by the great poet Emily Dickinson, who didn’t receive the literary recognition which she deserved at her time; yet her poems still managed to touch hearts through her low-key unassuming style. Dickson had a unique way of writing—using dashes to separate the texts—causing rhyme to be suspended in the air, where sound and semantic interlace to give the poem more than one meaning. The subsequent talks between Herve-Gil and HSU gave rise to this wonderful dance work. Will There Really Be a “Morning”? merges the bodies of four modern dancers from the Dance Forum Taipei with music and language, presenting Dickson’s unique “fragmenting text by dash” way of poem writing through the metamorphic embodiment of this mysterious poet.
Choreographer and Director / Myriam Herve-Gil
Performers / HSU Yen-ling and Dance Forum Taipei
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After the performance in the evening on 2/24 and matinee on 2/25,Experimental Theater
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