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Tsai Po-Cheng is a choreographer and full-time dance teacher, currently serving as the Artistic Director of B.DANCE, the production team behind Chengwu Dance Studio. He has been creating continuously since his student days, incorporating his own life experiences and insights into his works. His pieces are emotional yet humorous, with a unique vocabulary that blends theatrical art, dance, and extreme physical movements, resulting in a diverse style. His duets, including "Floating Flowers," "Hugin/Munun," and "INNERMOST," have won numerous awards both domestically and internationally.

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Have you ever honestly asked yourself how humanity is formed? Is it influenced by innate factors? Changed by nurture? Or is it something that's been written into our minds?

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Kwame Asafo-Adjei is a freelance choreographer who blends his hip-hop training with modern dance and his Ghanaian background to create a unique dance style, often emphasizing the development of Black culture. In 2018, this work won the Danse Elargie Choreography Competition, and in 2019, he won first prize at the Rotterdam International Choreography Competition.

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"Family Honor" explores its eponymous concept through the eyes of a young girl trapped by surrounding moral norms, facing the question of "crimes" against tradition. Abandoned by her father, she seeks solace in memories similar to his. Inspired by a heated debate within the Kwame family, the performance transports the audience to a world where hip-hop is not merely intertwined with drama, but drama itself. How far must you go to uphold family honor—is it true honor or just another traditional taboo?

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During his time with the internationally renowned dance company Peeping Tom, Brandon Lagaert developed his own distinctive and iconic style through performances in works such as Vader, Moeder, Kind, and Dido & Aeneas.

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It tells the story of a man, or more precisely, his body, experiencing the greatest challenges in the smallest tasks. The surrounding objects cause him to lose control, manipulating his mind and forcing his body to express these excessive emotions.

He struggles to understand what his body is doing, and the more he tries to control it, the less influence he has. This is also reflected in the audience, who witness a distorted body, exhibiting unnatural shapes.

When your body doesn't obey your mind's commands, even something as trivial as opening a bottle of water can be agonizing.

Some people speak in silence; some move in stillness.

My body moves and uses a language I've never learned to express what I cannot understand.

I may be suppressed, but my body is not.

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A freelance choreographer and founder of PITT Company. Born in Derbyshire, England, she graduated from the Zurich Opera Ballet School. In 2017, she created the trio "Ave Maria," which premiered at the Zurich Opera. That same year, her research paper on contemporary choreography won the Matura Prize and was invited to be presented at the 2017 Swiss Youth Research Forum.

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"Bitter, like an old-fashioned, swirling guidance transmission, material documents, challenge, refusal to acknowledge, compliance, no answer."

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Dario Dinuzzi is from Italy and has participated in the Italian Aterballetto Ballet, the Canadian Ballet, Ballet BC in Canada, and the Lucerne Theatre in Switzerland.

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Inspired by the English word "premonition," which can refer to both a feeling without evidence and a large tumor on a person's back, the choreographer imagined and created this poem based on his own premonitions. The script is the starting point and main source of inspiration for the dance movements, dynamics, and aesthetics. Actors Mathilde Gilhet and Olivia Blanch were asked to represent their own and each other's premonitions, creating the points of encounter and conflict. Beyond the metaphors of life's joys, what remains is the audience's premonition.

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Master of Dance Creation, National Taipei University of the Arts; Artistic Director of Chang-Gong Dance Theatre; Dancer with the Cheng-Wu Production Team.

She works with the Cheng-Wu Production Team and won two gold medals at the 2015 Copenhagen Choreography Competition in Denmark and the Burgos Choreography Competition in Spain, as well as a silver medal at the Jerusalem International Choreography Competition in Israel, with her work Hugin/Munin. She is currently touring the world with her team.

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In what appears to be a duel, the two diverge along different paths, sometimes parallel, sometimes brushing past, sometimes overlapping, sometimes intersecting. Their relationship seems to be one of competition and antagonism, hovering in a state of uncertainty, gradually unfolding into a chessboard-like pattern. However, they ultimately merge into one, walking side by side in the same direction, as if in a dream. The "he" in this confrontation might actually be himself.

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