Focus Dance Company 2026: Sleepless Utopia
Two programmes, twelve works by company members plus pieces by the well-established Huang Yi (黃翊), and the very much emerging Yu Wan-lun (余宛倫).
TNUA (國立臺北藝術大學)
Tsai Meng-ting x Lai Yi-fei: Illusory Time|Errant Tongue
Tsai Meng-ting (蔡孟廷) and Lai Yi-fei (賴怡菲) in a programme of interesting choreography, and superb interpretation and ownership of roles.
Focus Dance Company: Tempestuous
A rich and diverse programme of one masterwork, one popular revival and eight new student works… All were superbly danced.
Modernity, tradition, identity, society in a Taipei triple-bill
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”
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
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