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0471 “Duo” Kicks Off WOW Festival 2024 |
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0471 Acro Physical Theatre, one of the few circus troupes in Taiwan that specializes in stacking acrobatics, will showcase “DUO” at WOW Festival from April 4 to 7, 2024.
"DUO" is a work based on a robust two-person acrobatics. By linking each passage through the circus techniques, the performance of the same duo reveals many aspects of each other's lives. The dialogue, inner monologue, and subliminal lines of each other are shown in their interactions with each other physically. Don’t miss the wonderful show in WOW Festival.Event information (Free Admission, Rsvp only) ●April 4 @ 5:45 pm - 6:30 pm / Revelle Plaza (San Diego, CA 92161)
https://lajollaplayhouse.org/wowfestival/event/duo-2/2024-04-04/
●April 5 @ 6:15 pm - 7:00 pm / Design and Innovation Building (9510 Innovation Lane La Jolla, 92093)
https://lajollaplayhouse.org/wowfestival/event/duo/
●April 6 @ 12:30 pm - 1:15 pm / Revelle Plaza (San Diego, CA 92161)
https://lajollaplayhouse.org/wowfestival/event/duo-2/2024-04-06/1/
●April 6 @ 4:30 pm - 5:15 pm / Revelle Plaza (San Diego, CA 92161)
https://lajollaplayhouse.org/wowfestival/event/duo-2/2024-04-06/2/
●April 7 @ 12:15 pm - 1:00 pm / Revelle Plaza (San Diego, CA 92161)
https://lajollaplayhouse.org/wowfestival/event/duo-2/2024-04-07/1/
●April 7 @ 3:30 pm - 4:15 pm / Revelle Plaza (San Diego, CA 92161)
https://lajollaplayhouse.org/wowfestival/event/duo-2/2024-04-07/2/
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7 Taiwanese Literary Works Featured at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books |
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Join Taiwan Academy at the 2024 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on April 20 and 21, 2024, at the University of Southern California (USC)! We have curated a selection of seven Taiwanese literary books by established Taiwanese authors, as well as the meet-and-greet for author Charlotte Cheng, which is something that you should check out at our exhibit booth #148. We also prepared some free perks from Taiwan waiting for you. Come and get to know more about books from Taiwan.
For further details about the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, please visit: https://events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks/.
The Taiwan Academy appreciates Books from Taiwan and the National Museum of Taiwan Literature for their support of this event. |
Ongoing Event |
Residency: Chen Wu-Kang And Sun Ruey-Horng |
Photo by Etang Chen |
CalArts Center for New Performance (CNP) welcomes dancer Chen Wu-kang and videographer Sun Ruey-horng to develop a new work entitled Closed Tomorrow at CalArts.
The collaborative duo of celebrated Taiwanese dance phenomenon Chen Wu-kang and Lucille Lortel award-winning performance maker Sun Ruey-horng conjure the ongoing neurological impacts of pandemic on our expressions of liveness—the body, its aura and its spiritual core. In a technology-driven collaboration that charts new dimensions in live dance and video performance, Closed Tomorrow makes legible the dancers’ real-time adaptations to a rapidly changing, heavily mediated performance space. At the same time, fast-fire live-editing allows bodies to break through the limits of physiology, invoking new possibilities for our emergent world. This production will follow a Premiere in the North America in Spring, 2025. |
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Press Conference for the 2024 Oscar-Nominated Documentary Short “Island in Between” |
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The Taiwanese film "Island in Between" has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short ever since Taiwanese director Ang Lee's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" won the Academy Award for the Best Foreign Language Film in 2001.
The Taiwan Academy at the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Los Angeles held a press conference on March 8, 2024, inviting director S. Leo Chiang, chairman Ben Tsiang and CEO Ruby Chen of CNEX Studio, along with the producing team, to talk about the creation process behind the film and their reflections on its nomination. Director S. Leo Chiang expresses his aims to leverage "Island in Between" as a catalyst to share Taiwan's story with the world, fostering greater understanding and appreciation for the island's rich heritage and vibrant culture.
Director Chien of the Taiwan Academy highlighted the Ministry of Culture's "Black Wave Cultural Plan," aimed at bolstering Taiwan's presence in the global film, television, and audio industries. He mentioned, “the Academy Awards serve as a pinnacle of recognition within the film industry, and "Island in Between's" inclusion on the list of nominees after 23 years is a testament to Taiwan's creative prowess.”
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