Focus Dance Company 2024
Six works by students alongside Self-Portrait by Hung Tsai-hsi and Hofesh Shechter’s powerful In Your Rooms. The dancing was top drawer
TNUA (國立臺北藝術大學)
Taiwan students in two evenings of top-notch dance: Focus Dance Company 2023
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
Taiwan choreographer-dancers light up Project Sau.té’s Quarantine Project
12 days; 12 new, short works
A celebration: Focus Dance Company’s After Party at Taipei National University of the Arts
Dances that are loud and colourful, dark and forbidding
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
An afternoon as varied as the dancers’ different movement backgrounds
Smoke, lasers, dance and sound interweave in Moving Me Badly at Taipei National University of the Arts
Enigmatic, mysterious and full of lighting wizardry
A ‘Boléro’ with a difference and more: TNUA’s Focus Dance Company 2019
Works by Tung I-fen and Bryan Arias plus student choreography
Cheng Tsung-lung’s The Wall leads the way at TNUA’s Focus Dance 2018 (焦點舞團)
The highlight was Cheng Tsung-lung’s The Wall
Taipei National University of the Arts’ Focus Dance 2017
Works by French choreographer Lucas Viallefond, Hofesh Shechter dancer Chang Chien-ming, and students
Lin Chun-yu: Here I love you
Picnic, a duet danced beautifully on a patch of synthetic grass amid a sea of opened black umbrellas
A year in dance: 2016 in review
SeeingDance editor David Mead takes a personal glance back at the dance he saw in 2016.