Bulareyaung Pagarlava is a Paiwan choreographer born in the Jialan Tribal Village of Taitung. His name means “happy warrior”.
At the age of 12, he made up his mind to become a dancer, and did his first choreography when he studied at the Taipei National University of the Arts. After graduation, he became a dancer at Cloud Gate Dance Theatre and toured around the world for his solo performance. In 1988, Bulareyaung received a Performing Arts Fellowship from the Asian Cultural Council to study in New York City. He has choreographed for the Martha Graham Dance Company, Cloud Gate Dance Theatre and Cloud Gate 2. Moreover, he was invited to perform at various important international events, including the Vancouver Cultural Olympiad, Vail Dance Festival of the US, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival and so on. Bulareyaung’s works are deeply loved by the world and are praised as “wildly original and humorous, full of excitement and surprise, and making people become addictive to modern dance.”
In 2010, when Bulareyaung responded to the curtain call while holding hands with the dancers from the Martha Graham Dance Company at Lincoln Center, he thought to himself, “How wonderful it would be if I were holding hands with my own people!” As a result of this thought, he went back to his hometown Taitung in 2014, and established the Bulareyaung Dance Company (B.D.C.). Based on the indigenous cultures of Taitung and surrounded by the mountains and the ocean, he invited the children from the tribes who love to dance to develop the relations between sounds and body movements, demonstrating the physical discourse and language in the indigenous modern dance.
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Bulareyaung has choreographed for Cloud Gate Dance Theater since 1996 and worked with Cloud Gate 2 for many years. His works include Formosa, the Beautiful Island, UMA, Lily, Monday 2:10PM, Foreseen, Uncertain / Waiting, and Yaangad.
At the invitation of the Formosa Indigenous Dance Foundation of Culture and Arts in 2013, Bulareyaung directed and choreographed an indigenous musical with elements of music, dance and theater, Pu’ing: Tracing the Atayal Route, inspired by the story of an Atayal girl Sayon during the period of Japanese rule.
In 2015, he released La Song, a group production by the Bulareyaung Dance Company (B.D.C.). In 2016, Qaciljay and Colors both received critical acclaim and began the tours. In 2017, the B.D.C.’s latest work Stay That Way premiered at the Cloud Gate Theater in June.
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