When the script and story do not need to exist, how does the moving image reconstruct the visual language of movement and sensation through the body?
The School of Dance collaborates with the School of Film and New Media to hold a dance video course, curating the "Mélange of Film and Dance” project to stimulate the creativity and creative prowess of the new generation of dancers.
Dance and moving image coalesce, traversing media; their perspectives overlap, breaking through existing creative frameworks. Choreographers move from physical spaces, to confessing themselves to the camera; filmmakers toss script and storyline out the window, reconstructing the filmic language of movement and sensation. Both build a limitless creative world between reality and the virtual, the two- and three-dimensional.
“Groove360”
This is a panoramic era with an emphasis on the immersive.
We may think we're online all the time, but neglect the fact that our bodies are continually forgotten in the offline world, unable to keep up with the brain and with visuality. So we are dazed, we change form, to the point where we cannot but close our eyes in a world of virtual reality, that our bodies can slowly adjust to the cloud-powered world we are to enter, but haven’t yet caught up to.
The School of Dance has curated the "Groove360" project in collaboration with Digital Art Center.TW, stimulating creativity through technology, expanding the horizons of a new generation of dancers.Through a dance vs. film perspective, we challenge a new dimension through the 360° camera, directing the inquiries and sensibilities of young creatives towards the world and its peoples.
Taipei National University of the Arts (TNUA, formerly known as National Institute of the Arts before 2001) was founded in 1982. Since the establishment of the School of Dance in 1983, a world-class faculty of choreographers, performers, and scholars has led the BFA, MA/MFA, and Ph.D. programs and developed dance artists, educators, writers, and administrators in the performing arts. The accomplishment of the faculty and alumni have made a name for TNUA not only in the contemporary dance scene in Taiwan, but also worldwide.
TNUA School of Film and New Media
Taipei National University of the Arts School of Film and New Media was established in 2009, including the Department of Film Production (incl. graduate study), Department of New Media (incl. graduate study), and Department of Animation. Our school collates the visual art-making professions of film, new media art, and animation, as well as state-of-the-art techniques connecting to various contemporary and industry trends, with superior strengths in transdisciplinary instruction, creation, and industry-institution collaboration and development.
Digital Art Center.TW
DAC.TW is run by Digital Art Foundation, and the center is aimed to foster the development of digital art and to promote relevant activities.
The Digital Art Foundation, founded on September 9, 2008, has been dedicated to exploring and experimenting with creative thinking in the technological society.
Hosted by｜Taipei National University of the Arts
Performed by｜TNUA School of Dance, Film and New Media
Principal｜Chen Kai-huang
Curators｜Ho Hsiao-mei, Yu Cheng-chie, Chien Hsiang
Artistic Director｜Ho Hsiao-mei
Technical Director｜Goh Boon-ann
Stage Manager｜Chu Chien-che
Creators｜Liu O-ki, Tseng Wen-yu, Lai Fang-yu, Lee Yu-chiao, Lu Mige, Wang I-hua, Wu Tsung-hsuan, Huang Yi-lun, Lu Chih-wei, Liao Chien-yao, Tsai Sung-chun, Lin Hsin-hung, Yang Yao-Jhen, Gwee Cheng-zhao, Huang Cheng-wei, Tsai Pei-ju, Liu Hsing, Hu Chih-chiang, Li Yun-ting, Wu Tzu-yi, Kuo Liang-yun, Tsai Tsung-yu, Pao Ming-chien
“Groove360”
Hosted by｜Taipei National University of the Arts
Performed by｜TNUA School of Dance, Digital Art Center.TW
Principal｜Chen Kai-huang
Curators｜Ho Hsiao-mei, Wang Po-wei
