Although it is only a one-month rehearsal, the dancers’ bodies, ambient sounds and arias interweave to present the homeless state of mind, which has already made the audience feel deeply. (Photo by reporter Ling Meixue)

[Reporter Ling Meixue/Taipei Report]Dance Space Dance Company invited choreographer Lin Wenzhong to create a new work. “Shelter” finds new power from Taiwanese street stories. Artistic Director Ping Heng invited the team to perform a periodic short performance yesterday (30th). It was like an ambient sound of interviews with homeless people around Longshan Temple plus an aria, combined with the body language of the dancers, like a sad song in the bottom corner of the city. Transforming the suffocating and depressed heart into dance, the new work will be performed in a dance space with a “sanctuary” atmosphere in the fall.

Lin Wenzhong, who is particularly sensitive to music, has collaborated with Wu Kong many times in the past, but mostly performed magnificent and elegant dances in large theaters with magnificent symphonies. This time he returns to the Wu Kong base with the characteristics of a small theater and will invite the audience Sit around and watch the different aspects of life conveyed by the dancers from the most intimate perspective.

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Lin Wenzhong said that he has always been curious about the lying people in Asia, stories about small characters like the movie “The Elephant Sitting on the Ground”, so he thought of making up a sketch about “pale and futile efforts”. There is no way out in life, but the spirit is always there. To find sustenance, the image of the performance space in Wukong’s basement reminded him of “shelter.”

Who doesn’t want a shelter to live in, a physical shelter that may not be hard to find, but a shelter that is completely accepting and inclusive? Just like the clip shown yesterday, the dancers turned into homeless people, each holding a piece of cardboard for heaven, home, and quilt, looking for a place that did not belong to them in a street corner like the one near Longshan Temple, and sometimes keeping each other warm. , or ask the other person in a casual chat: “Why are you here?”

Lin Wenzhong said that in “4891”, Taiwanese documentary director Huang Tingfu coldly recorded cats, dogs, statues, homeless people, wandering orioles and other abandoned disabled people, sick women, or homeless people with nothing to do, in the dark sky. Next, they composed a wandering song accompanied by the temple’s Sanskrit music. He decided to use interviews with “homeless people” in “4891” as background sound effects throughout the dance, allowing the dancers to interpret the body stories of marginalized people with pale humor, while also describing the tragic fate of the bottom class of society who work hard to live. But there are also some operatic voices interspersed in the ambient sound effects to soothe all the emotional struggles.

Ping Heng said that he hopes that the public can face up to and sympathize with the helplessness and reflection caused by the bottom of society. Although everyone has their own thoughts, they still have to find a “shelter” and think about the sea of ​​life and how to weave a splendid sea of ​​life. . Performances October 24-27.

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