蘇威嘉 x 藝術家工作坊
SU Wei-chia × Artist Workshop
How our body moves is the database, and what our brain thinks is the programming code. We code the moves into our life through practice and construction. If used in choreography, the moves are the fruit of creation; if not, they are a form of exercise. Dancing and choreography can be both difficult and simple.
In 2013, SU started FreeSteps, a ten-year choreography project, and devoted himself to exploring all possibilities of using the body. The workshop incorporated part of the skills into the lesson plans, and will guide attendees to explore the body, familiarizing them with ways to create shape and movement texture, and possibilities of such materialization.
SU Wei-chia graduated from National Taiwan University of Arts, with his career being inspired by Prof. WU Su-fen. In 2004, SU started the HORSE Dance Theater with some of his good friends CHEN Wu-kang, CHOU Shu-yi, YANG Yu-min, and CHIEN Hua-bao. In 2007, their collective work Velocity won the 6th Annual Taishin Arts Performing Award. Between 2009 and 2013, SU joined the Ballet Tech in New York as a guest dancer per invitation by the American ballet guru Eliot Feld. In 2013, SU started FreeSteps, a ten-year choreography project, in which two of the series were later commissioned by the National Theater and Concert Hall in 2017 and 2019 for production.