B.link No.5｜Between the Embers

：：Remarks by Director ：：

After the Sounds Gradually Faded, We Remain Within the Resonance of NET

The performances of NET have officially come to an end.

Onstage, light, bodies, and the immense woven installation completed their first full appearance at the National Theater. Yet after the curtain fell, what truly began to flow were the observations, discussions, and sensations that emerged from different directions.

Some saw war.

Some saw order.

Some saw solitude, collectivity, collapse, or a certain unease of our times.

But what NET has always sought to contemplate is, ultimately, the human being.

War is only a point of departure.

What is truly placed at the center of the stage is how, when the world begins to fall into turbulence, the once-intimate connections between people gradually loosen; how the social networks we inhabit slowly lose their capacity for understanding amid fear, positions, and information; and how those who once believed in one another come, step by step, to move further apart.

NET speaks not only of destruction, but of relationships.

In an era that seems to be dividing at ever-increasing speed, we appear to be losing the ability to listen to one another. And so, what NET attempts to contemplate is not an answer, but the connections that still exist between people — those that have not yet completely broken.

We have always believed that dance is not meant to provide conclusions, but to allow audiences to once again sense the distance between themselves and others. Perhaps this is precisely why every audience member saw a different world within NET, and left with a different echo.

May, too, feels like a breath after a performance.

After an intensive creative process and the gathering of immense energy, we return once more to people, to the land, and to exchange itself. This month, B.DANCE will collaborate with the Cultural Affairs Department of Pingtung County Government to present Floating Flowers in Kenting, allowing dance to return once again to the sea breeze and the land of the south.

Floating Flowers is a contemplation of love, memory, and the flow of life. Over the years, it has accompanied the company through different cities and countries. This time, we look forward to meeting more audiences in southern Taiwan. We sincerely invite friends from central and southern Taiwan to join us in the May sunlight and the sound of the sea, and to experience the gentlest currents of the body together.

Some connections do not necessarily take place in the theater.

Some webs are not made of threads.

They may be an act of watching,

a conversation,

or a group of people willing to remain in the same place, and to feel one another again.

May is the lingering warmth after NET.

Those lights that have never truly gone out

continue, between one person and another,

to move slowly.

And we,

too, remain within this web.