CHEN Ya-ping x The Cloud Gate ClassroomA Circuitous Way Home: Bulareyaung Dance Company, a contemporary aboriginal dance theater
CHEN Ya-ping x The Cloud Gate Classroom
A Circuitous Way Home: Bulareyaung Dance Company, a contemporary aboriginal dance theater
After returning to his hometown Taitung in 2014, Choreographer Bulareyaung Pagarlava founded the Bulareyaung Dance Company. This year in November, the Company will present LIMA Five at the Cloud Gate Theater as part of the five-year retrospective series.
The Company has been making coveted achievements ever since its founding. Its Stay That Way won the 16th Taishin Performing Arts Award in 2017, and its LUNA won the 17th Taishin Arts Award Grand Prize in 2018. By digging deep into his own aboriginal history of the body, Bulareyaung not only learns from the traditional culture, but also aims to create a contemporary aboriginal theater. His works have grandly become the most lively and delightful scenery in the field of contemporary art in Taiwan. The Classroom invited Professor CHEN Ya-ping from School of Dance, Taipei National University of the Arts to give an in-depth talk on aboriginal dance, identity seeking, and Bulareyaung’s works from a broad perspective.
About The Cloud Gate Classroom
The Cloud Gate Classroom is held on Wednesday nights at the Cloud Gate Studio Theater. Everyone is welcome to join and learn about performing arts. Admission is free of charge. Lecture topics are organized according to scheduled performances for the year at Cloud Gate Theater. Theater directors, producers, and curators are invited to share their in-depth knowledge and analysis on performing arts, allowing the audience to have a better understanding of the performances, their formats, and their underlying rationales. Audience will also gain a clearer view of the global trends in the performing arts industry.
*The lecture is taught in Chinese.
CHEN Ya-ping
A dance scholar, a dance critic, and an Associate Professor at School of Dance, Taipei National University of the Arts, CHEN Ya-Ping’s studies include the history of Taiwanese contemporary dance, dance and cultural studies, issues in body culture, and dance criticism. She has published several books on dance both locally and internationally, and is the author of Enquiry into Subjectivity: Modernity, History, Taiwan Contemporary Dance. She mainly writes reviews for Performing Arts Review and Performance Arts Reviews: Arts and humanities website.
