Featured Artists

Bulareyaung Dance Company

Performer

Bulareyaung Dance Company (BDC) was founded in 2015 in Taitung by Bulareyaung Pagarlava, an indigenous choreographer from Taiwan. For him, starting BDC is not only the birth of a dance company, but also an act of returning home to dance—returning to the land and the ocean, and revisiting traditions and culture in search of self.

The Company has a unique way of creating work. Dancers participate in the daily life and rituals of tribal communities: they engage in physical work in the woods and mountains, and they chant by the shores and waterfront. This kind of “field research” is a learning experience for both body and mind. The dancers transform what they gain into distinctive physical expressions that shape each work. Every creative process is like a journey of exploration and a transformation of self-identity and culture memory.