National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying) Swash
Commissioned by National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying)
Director & Cinematographer & Editor / LUO Sih-wei
Creation Partner / CHOU Shu-yi
Choreographer / WANG Yeu-kwn
Dancers / LEE Yin-ying, TIEN Hsiao-tzu
Music & Sound design / HSU Yen-ting
Executive Producer / LIN Jou-wen
・Duration：approximately 15 minutes
Humans are spray and sand.
Did he affect you? Did you change him?
What’s left? What’s taken?
Inspired by how waves hit the beach, this work reflects the mutual and ever-continuing influence humans exert in relationships. Zooming in on the process of how influence occurs, the artist translated this into physical movements and stories.
Main Creator
Artist / LUO Sih-wei
Transforming from a dancer to a film worker at 36 was a significant decision in my life. Swash is my first creation after this transformation. It is like a memoir that accompanies me to organize myself.
Going back and picking up the fragments, I tried to piece them together to draw a vague path, figuring out how to be who I am, despite the black sand already covering me.
I hope that, through this film, people can find the strength to move on from a difficult life.
As a dancer with abundant performing experiences, LUO officially became a freelance image artist in 2021. With a base in performing arts, he believes in the infinite possibilities of transforming the arts into images. He is committed to present the delicate perspective and the story of performing arts.
Creation Partner / CHOU Shu-Yi
CHOU Shu-yi starts out from the body and communicates with the world through dance and choreography. He focuses on the relationship between human beings and the society. In his past creations and actions, he is capable of capturing the powers of cross-disciplinary collaboration to address the publicness of arts. His creations focus on the value of life and reflect the state of individuals or collectives in different social contexts. Through his creations, CHOU Shu-yi makes propositions of a “body vocabulary that is specifically Asian” in the forms of theatre, non-traditional theatre and dance video. He continues to create as he travels different sites and places. In 2020, he was invited as the Weiwuying's first artist in residence and has been living in the south ever since.
Choreographer / WANG Yeu-Kwn
In addition to exploring the connections and disconnections between people and cities, people and environs, WANG Yeu-kwn cares about bodily alienation in urbanity. His works experiment space and objects to deconstruct movements, and propose philosophical questions in contemporary times through dance.
Since the founding of Shimmering Production, WANG focuses his artistic approach toward dance creation and arts diffusion practice. He has recently collaborated with Cloud Gate Theater, National Taichung Theater, Treasure Hill Artist Village, and the National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts to engage workshop, choreography commissions, and performances.
Dancer & Co-creation / LEE Yin-Ying
LEE is the co-founder of Shimmering Production.
After graduating from National Taiwan University of Arts, LEE worked with several professional dance companies in Taiwan, and received a scholarship to the American Dance Festival in 2007. LEE then joined Cloud Gate 2 from 2009 to 2019, during that period, she had cooperated with world renowned Taiwanese choreographers such as CHENG Tsung-lung, WU Kuo-Chu, Bulareyaung Pagarlava, SUN Shang-Chi, and HUANG Yi. She also toured with the company to participate in dance festivals and performances at the Joyce Theater, New York City Center, Sadler's Wells Theatre, Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay, International Tanzmesse NRW Duesseldorf and China Shanghai International Arts Festival.
As a senior dancer, in addition to continuing to explore the various possibilities of performances, LEE has participated in cross-border video shooting, dramatic body action design, and sharing of physical skills with professional dancers and non-professionals. It is her hope that through the sorting and inheritance of physical experience, she can help to guide more people to know themselves better through dance.
Dancer & Co-creation / TIEN Hsiao-tzu
Hsiao-tzu TIEN was born in 1984 in Tainan as the freelance choreographer, dancer and performer based in Taipei presently. Tien puts focus of her choreography research on human emotions shaped by time, history, culture and environment. She also develops the potentials of body and movements through international exchange and collaboration with theatre or performance arts, keeping connected with foreign cultures and other disciplines.
The work, Masses co-created by Shih-Wei Wang, Tzi-mei LI, Helmi Fita was the winner of Performing Arts Award of the 18th Taishin Arts Award in 2020. In 2016 she was selected by the Ministry of Culture of Taiwan for the artist residency program in Paris. Her work The Hole was nominated for Taishin Arts Award in 2015.
Her works have been premiered in Taipei Arts Festival, Dance Massive (Melbourne), America Dance Festival, among others. The Hole and Stem have been presented respectively in Avignon, Shenzhen Contemporary Theatre Biennale and Dance Bridges Festival (Kolkata). Drifting Dust, the dance video she created with artist Cheuk-lam Chih, has been exhibited in Kaohsiung, Chiayi (Taiwan) and Madrid(Spain).
Music & Sound design / HSU Yen-ting
Using sound as primary creation medium, HSU Yen-ting investigates the cultural context and texture of sounds. Her works often reflect the relationship between sounds, environment, individual and/or collective memories and emotions. Interweaving field recordings with electronic sounds and objects, HSU keeps exploring and experimenting documentary and fiction / narrative and imaginary elements of recorded sounds. Mixing with other art mediums and artistic disciplines, Hsu creates installations, performances, audio documentaries, electroacoustic music, and more. She also collaborates with dance theaters and films as a sound designer/composer.
Her work has been shown at Taipei Artist Village, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taitung Art Museum, ChengLong Wetlands International Environmental Art Project (Taiwan), Taipei International Documentary Festival, Asian Meeting Festival (Japan) in Taipei Arts Festival, Festival Film Dokumenter (Indonesia), Toyama Glass Art Museum (Japan), Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (Australia), Fremantle Arts Centre (Australia), Lacking Sound Festival and On-Site (Taiwan), Liquid Architecture (Australia), Arte Radio (France), Resonance fm (UK), among others.
Production Team
Commissioned by National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying)
Director & Cinematographer & Editor／LUO Sih-wei
Creation Partner／CHOU Shu-yi
Choreographer／WANG Yeu-kwn
Dancers／LEE Yin-ying, TIEN Hsiao-tzu
Music & Sound design／HSU Yen-ting
Executive Producer／LIN Jou-wen
Special Thanks／Jasper WANG、CHEN Yi-en