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TNUA (國立臺北藝術大學)

Focus Dance Company: Tempestuous

March 27, 2025 by David Mead

A rich and diverse programme of one masterwork, one popular revival and eight new student works… All were superbly danced.

Categories Asia Asia Pages/亞洲頁 Reviews Taiwan/臺灣 Tags Chang Chien-ming (張建明) Cheng Tsung-lung (鄭宗龍) Focus Dance (焦點舞團) TNUA (國立臺北藝術大學)

Modernity, tradition, identity, society in a Taipei triple-bill

March 16, 2025March 16, 2025 by David Mead

Nameless Practice by Chien Lin-yi (簡麟懿): “Brim-full of ideas and fabulous images… a really terrific piece that holds the attention from start to finish”

Categories Asia Asia Pages/亞洲頁 Reviews Taiwan/臺灣 Tags Chien Lin-yi (簡麟懿) TNUA (國立臺北藝術大學) Wong Choi Si (黃翠絲, Tracy)

Focus Dance Company 2024

April 16, 2024March 31, 2024 by David Mead

Six works by students alongside Self-Portrait by Hung Tsai-hsi and Hofesh Shechter’s powerful In Your Rooms. The dancing was top drawer

Categories Asia Asia Pages/亞洲頁 Reviews Taiwan/臺灣 Tags Focus Dance (焦點舞團) Hofesh Shechter Hung Tsai-hsi (洪綵希) School & conservatoire performances TNUA (國立臺北藝術大學)

Taiwan students in two evenings of top-notch dance: Focus Dance Company 2023

April 6, 2023March 27, 2023 by David Mead

Two fine programmes both featuring a reworking of Ihsan Rustem’s super, tongue-in-cheek Bolero and Tsai Po-cheng’s (蔡博丞) new Dreaminess

Categories Asia Asia Pages/亞洲頁 Reviews Taiwan/臺灣 Tags Focus Dance (焦點舞團) Ihsan Rustem School & conservatoire performances TNUA (國立臺北藝術大學) Tsai Po-cheng

Taiwan choreographer-dancers light up Project Sau.té’s Quarantine Project

May 26, 2020May 25, 2020 by David Mead

12 days; 12 new, short works

Categories Asia Reviews Taiwan/臺灣 Tags Andy Lin (林則安) National Taiwan University of the Arts (國立臺灣藝術大學) Project Sau.té Tanzkompanie St Gallen TNUA (國立臺北藝術大學) University of Taipei (臺北市立大學)

A celebration: Focus Dance Company’s After Party at Taipei National University of the Arts

April 1, 2020 by David Mead

Dances that are loud and colourful, dark and forbidding

Categories Asia Asia Pages/亞洲頁 Reviews Taiwan/臺灣 Tags Chang Chien-ming (張建明) Chiu Yi-chieh (邱浥婕) Focus Dance (焦點舞團) Hung Sheng-chiao (洪聖喬) Jan Möllmer Lai Wei-chun (賴韋蒓) Lai Yun-chi (賴耘琪) Tien Tsai-wei (田采薇) TNUA (國立臺北藝術大學)

As theatre is put on hold in the UK, dance makes a rare live appearance in Taipei: Wei Tzu-ling and Albert Garcia with How we go

March 18, 2020 by David Mead

An afternoon as varied as the dancers’ different movement backgrounds

Categories Asia Asia Pages/亞洲頁 Reviews Taiwan/臺灣 Tags Jan Möllmer Lin Wen-chung (林文中) Liu Yen-cheng (劉彥成) TNUA (國立臺北藝術大學) Wang Wei-ming (王維銘)

Smoke, lasers, dance and sound interweave in Moving Me Badly at Taipei National University of the Arts

November 14, 2019 by David Mead

Enigmatic, mysterious and full of lighting wizardry

Categories Asia Asia Pages/亞洲頁 Reviews Taiwan/臺灣 Tags TNUA (國立臺北藝術大學)

A ‘Boléro’ with a difference and more: TNUA’s Focus Dance Company 2019

April 27, 2019April 27, 2019 by David Mead

Works by Tung I-fen and Bryan Arias plus student choreography

Categories Asia Asia Pages/亞洲頁 Reviews Taiwan/臺灣 Tags Bryan Arias Focus Dance (焦點舞團) School & conservatoire performances TNUA (國立臺北藝術大學) Tung I-fen

Cheng Tsung-lung’s The Wall leads the way at TNUA’s Focus Dance 2018 (焦點舞團)

July 1, 2018April 2, 2018 by David Mead

The highlight was Cheng Tsung-lung’s The Wall

Categories Asia Asia Pages/亞洲頁 Reviews Taiwan/臺灣 Tags Cloud Gate 2 (雲門2) School & conservatoire performances TNUA (國立臺北藝術大學)

Taipei National University of the Arts’ Focus Dance 2017

July 1, 2018March 27, 2017 by David Mead

Works by French choreographer Lucas Viallefond, Hofesh Shechter dancer Chang Chien-ming, and students

Categories Asia Asia Pages/亞洲頁 Reviews Taiwan/臺灣 Tags Focus Dance (焦點舞團) School & conservatoire performances TNUA (國立臺北藝術大學)
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