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BABE.B

The dancers of B.DANCE have traveled with the company to stages across the globe, colliding, frictioning, and accumulating experiences within diverse cultures. These journeys have slowly settled deep within each dancer's body, germinating into something yet unuttered.

BABE.B is the outlet the company created for these rich accumulations.

It begins by inviting the company’s own dancers to step into the role of the choreographer, bringing the questions they have long yearned to explore into the rehearsal studio, and developing a piece uniquely their own from the ground up. The company firmly believes that every body working here has its own questions to ask. What BABE.

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The very first to step into this space is senior dancer, CHANG Chien-Chih.

Chien Chih learned traditional Chinese opera from a young age, and his body has a rigorous foundation of Eastern training. Later, he studied modern dance and entered the Dance Creation Institute of Taipei National University of the Arts. He began to want to put these two things together—not to merge them, but to have a dialogue: what will happen when the concept of the Eastern body meets the framework of Western dance?

In 2020, within the framework of BABE.B, he brought this question into the rehearsal room and developed the duo work "Three Scenes." The inspiration came from the traditional Peking Opera martial arts scene "Sanchakou"—on stage there is only a table and a chair, the two performers have no dialogue or singing, and rely on their breath and tacit understanding to support the entire space. He incorporated the "pushing hands" of Tai Chi and the "wooden dummy" of Wing Chun into his creative methodology: two bodies are joined together, their palms never separated, using softness to overcome hardness, the power originating from the legs and manifesting at the fingertips. This is an imagination, and also an unknown—the two bodies know that the other exists, but cannot see each other.

"Three Scenes" was later renamed "Divergence". In 2021, this work participated in the MASDANZA International Choreography Competition in Spain and won the gold medal. The following year, it took the award to the Turin International Contemporary Dance Festival and CROSS Festival in Italy for a two-city tour, receiving several minutes of applause at the end of the performance. This was the first time the Babe.B series had stepped onto the international stage.

In 2023, Chang Chien-chih returned to Taiwan with his new work, "Deconstruct ". Eight dancers continued to explore the question that began at the "crossroads" and performed at the Taipei City Stage.


Also in 2023, dancer Lo Li-an was invited by the dance company to bring his creation "Homa" to the stage. The grand finale of that year's Xinying Arts Festival was a miniature dance festival "B.OOM by B.DANCE" organized by B.DANCE's Team - Chang Chien Chih and Lo Li An's works spoke out side by side on the same night, two different bodies, two different questions, speaking on the same stage.

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2026

Net

Produced by Chang Yen-Tzu and Huang Yun-Ting

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2025

Flowing

Zheng Yi-yi and Wang Yu-hong participated in the production.

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