Spring Riot 2026

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Spring Riot 2026
Three Generations｜Three Works
Three Explorations on the Body

She, Adorned by Her Own Body — Baru Madiljin
FATIGUE — Viktor Szeri
Catch and Throw — LIN Pin-shuo

Spring Riot 2026 presents three choreographers exploring the body from different perspectives. Across culture, exhaustion, and physical law, the body becomes an archive of memory, a system under pressure, and an event in constant motion.

In She, Adorned by Her Own Body, Baru Madiljin treats the body as a living archive of culture and female memory, allowing rhythm and breath to carry cultural memory directly through the body.

In FATIGUE, Viktor Szeri places exhaustion at the center of the work, using slowness and repetition to push the body to its limits while quietly unsettling habitual ways of watching.

With Catch and Throw, LIN Pin-shuo begins from physical phenomena—throwing and catching, stillness and velocity—to unravel motion and perception, revealing a body suspended in continual transformation.
 

She, Adorned by Her Own Body
Choreography｜Baru Madiljin

She wears no traditional attire,
Her body becomes the adornment itself.

Through three dancers in minimalist black, Baru Madiljin redirects attention to the body as the primary site of expression. Movement, breath, and rhythm bring forth the everyday lives and memories of Paiwan women, revealing a cultural presence carried not by costume, but by the body itself. Like traditional garments that accentuate form and pattern, the dancers’ bodies sharpen into a contemporary Paiwan physical language.

Drawing on women’s daily labor and tribal imagery, Madiljin transforms lived experience into gesture and motion, tracing shifting stages of female life. The Paiwan Mother Pot serves as the work’s symbolic anchor, grounding movement in themes of nourishment, continuity, and ancestral memory. In 2026, the work returns to its original creative intention, unfolding from ancestral chants into a closing lullaby—where body, memory, and culture move in continuous circulation.


Baru Madiljin
A Paiwan artist from the Timur community in Sandimen Township, Pingtung, is the current dance director and principal creator of Tjimur Dance Theatre. His works delve into ethnic consciousness and contemporary identity, with a strong focus on Paiwan culture and historical memory. Frequently invited to international stages, he was named "Person of the Year" by Performing Arts Review in 2023, solidifying his role as a leading figure among contemporary Taiwanese choreographers.

Credit
Choreography｜Baru Madiljin
Dancers｜CHANG Pei-cheng  LIN Sin-yu  LIAO Wen-yu
Lighting Design｜CHENG Yu
Costume Coordinator｜LIN Yen-jung  HSU Wen-wen
Rehearsal Assistant｜YEH Po-sheng
Physical Training Direction by Tjimur｜YANG Ching-hao

FATIGUE
Choreography | Viktor Szeri

He wants nothing.
Here, fatigue is the art.

Mood swings, slowed reflexes, dizziness: in a society that never stops, the physical and psychological symptoms of exhaustion quietly infiltrate everyday life. Rooted in his own experiences, Hungarian artist Viktor Szeri confronts this enervated, depleted state and transforms fatigue into the core of his creation. Within the space of Fatigue, exhaustion is neither judged nor resisted, but allowed to exist.

Fatigue is a solo work by Viktor Szeri. In 2022, the year of its premiere, it was awarded the Rudolf Lábán Prize, Hungary’s most prestigious contemporary dance award, and named Best Contemporary Dance Performance of the year. Straddling the boundaries between dance and installation arts, the work brings together visual imagery and music, with the body serving as the medium that carries and connects them. Through a near-hypnotic sense of slowness and intentionally repeated movement, the performance pushes the limits of the body while challenging the audience’s conventional modes of viewing.


Viktor Szeri 
is a Hungarian choreographer, performer, and artist engaged in multidisciplinary practices across dance, visual art, installation, and performance. Rooted in improvisational and experimental approaches, his work brings together different performing art forms and visual languages to develop a highly personal stage language. He is one of the founders of the Hollow collective and co-organises the Under500 Festival.

Credit
Choreographer and Performer｜Viktor Szeri
Sound Design｜András Molnár
Video Design｜Tamás Páll
Lighting Design｜Ferenc Payer

Catch and Throw
Choreography | Lin Pin-shuo

At the moment of release, time and space are suspended.
Before contact, the range is from 0 to ∞.

Between the throw and the catch, the object passes through rising and fading momentum, returning to zero — a moment where time and space seem to hold. It is at once a physical exchange between body and object, and an oscillation between the physical and the psychological. The next moment — catch, or fall.

Shown through studio presentations at Spring Riot 2024 and 2025, Catch and Throw evolves from experimental fragments into a cohesive choreographic work. Moving away from narrative-driven structures, the work draws on physical phenomena and dynamic forces to shape a bodily language, inviting audiences to see the body as motion shaped by force, attention, and time.


LIN Pin-shuo
Born in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, LIN Pin-shuo explores the space between the physical and the psychological, situating the body in a primal perceptual context and forming a distinctive movement language. Nature is a central element in his work. He has danced with Cloud Gate Dance Theatre, Spain’s Kor’sia Dance Company, and Belgium’s Isabelle Beernaert. Catch and Throw at Spring Riot 2026 marks his first choreography on a professional stage.

Credit
Choreographer and Performer｜LIN Pin-shuo
Performer and Material Research｜LIN Yin-ting
Costume Coordinator｜LIN Yen-jung  HSU Wen-wen
Lighting Design｜CHENG Yu
Sound Design｜CHUANG Sheng-kai
Choreography Assistant｜LIU Yun
2025 Phase Dramaturgy｜YU Tai-jung

Performance Guidelines
※ The performance runs approximately 2 hours, including an intermission. Latecomers or audience members who need to leave during the performance are kindly asked to follow the staff’s instructions for entry and re-entry.
※ Photography, audio recording, and video recording are strictly prohibited during the performance. Please switch off or silence all electronic devices that may emit sound or light.
※ Tickets may be refunded or exchanged up to 10 days prior to the performance date, subject to a 10% handling fee. Requests made after this deadline will not be accepted.
※ The presenter reserves the right to make changes to the program.

Presented by｜Cloud Gate Theater