| Year/Length: | 2023, 70’ (European premiere) |
|---|---|
| Concept and choreography: | Cheng Tsung-lung |
| Cast: | Chan Pui-Pui, Chen Tsung- Chiao, Chou Chen-Yeh, Fan Chia-Hsuan, Hsu Chih-Hen, Huang Lu-Kai, Huang Mei-Ya, Huang Po-Kai, Lee Tzu-Chun, Shao Hsing-Wen, Wang Chun- Hung, Yen Hsueh-Hsin |
| Concept, visual direction, music and programming: | Daito Manabe |
| Lighting design: | Shen Po-hung |
| Costume design: | Fan Huaichih |
| Film and editing direction: | Kenichiro Shimizu |
| VFX programming: | Ayumi Nagamatsu |
| Machine learning engineering: | 2bit |
| Manipulation and production management: | Keisuke Kikuchi |
| Sound engineering: | Liou Yun-chang |
| Co-production: | National Performing Arts Center - National Theater & Concert Hall National Taichung Theater National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts - Weiwuying |
| In collaboration with: | Fondazione Teatro La Fenice |
| This tour is made possible in part by grants from: | Ministry of Culture, Republic of China (Taiwan) |
Dance
Cloud Gate - Dance theatre of Taiwan
Description
Dance and technology. How far can the boundaries of the human body be pushed in the era of artificial intelligence? This is the inspiring theme of WAVES, which choreographer Cheng Tsung-lung and digital artist Daito Manabe created for the fiftieth anniversary of the Taiwanese company Cloud Gate. Famous in Asia and around the world for combining meditative and oriental movement practices with the study of Western dance, Cloud Gate looks to the future experimenting with the possibilities of artificial intelligence, staging the dialogue between twelve dancers and their digital avatars.
Everything in the show is generated by the body, even the music, produced using the physiological signals of the dancers recorded through sensors. The result is a "pure" physical language generated by transforming movement into digital data. A unique immersive experience, WAVES washes over the audience like a wave, stunning them.