FOCUS TAIWAN: FREESTEPS – NINI
A solo dance for unconventional spaces, FreeSteps–NiNi refers to neither goals, concepts and allusions, nor detailed arrangement. The performer gets dance free of fixed imagination, expectations and assumptions. All of the elements around, including the temperature, lighting and landscape at that time as well as the spectators become materials for the creation. It is simply a struggle between dancing steps and physical bodies.
When: 4 October
Where: Boris Hristov House of Culture Lobby
Start: 9pm
Free entry!
Choreography: Su Wei-Chia
Performer: Fang Yu-ting
Sound design: Yannick Dauby
REVIEWS
„The creativity that sparked throughout the performance made this physical game all the more intriguing.” – Min Sheng Daily
FANG YU-TING
Graduated from the Dance Department of National Taiwan University of Arts, Fang Yu-ting joined the Cloud Gate soon after her graduation and participated in such productions as Portrait Of The Families, How Can I Live on Without You and Nine Songs. Since 2015, she has joined HORSE as a dancer and rehearsal director, and is currently one of the main dancers in the productions of Su Wei-chia’s FreeSteps series.
In 2017, she took part in Retime choreographed and directed by Chou Shu-yi, the opening program for the the reopening of the National Theater in celebration of its 30th anniversary, as well as in Cjen Wu-kang’s One Dance, One Dances, One Danced in the NTCH Innovation Series of Dance. In the same year, she also joined the production of  The Time Between Two Mistakes by Belgium’s Needcompany in the Taiwan International Festival of Arts. She has acted as an instructor in workshops of the NTCH Outreach program to promote modern dance in recent years and a movement instructor for the filming of the NELKEN-Line project of the Pina Bausch Foundation in 2018.
SU WEI-CHIA
SU Wei-Chia was born in Kaohsiung. He graduated from the National Academy of Arts and was inspired by Prof. Su-Fen Wu during his studies. He is the co-founder of HORSE and has created, co-created and performed in M_dans, Stairs, Velocity, Bones, Growing Up, M Dans 2010, I, Successor I, II, III, 2 Men, 3 Men on a HORSE, and Playdead. Accepting an invitation from Eliot Feld, the distinguished American choreographer, Wei-Chia was a part of Feld’s troupe from 2009 to 2013. Wei-Chia began his choreographic work on the FreeSteps series in the last part of 2013. Work on this series is still ongoing. It takes time, in many cases a long relationship between Wei-Chia and the dancer, to shape, to massage, and to sculpture the movements and physicality.
HORSE
The logo of HORSE is a Chinese character made of three horses, indicating the strong motivation, explosive energy. Founded in December 2004, HORSE has established a distinctive profile with delicate physical movements and unrestricted creativities. The unique and collaborative style brings the current generation beyond the standard frame of stage performances.
The artistic policy of HORSE is to provide a platform for the creative expression of Taiwan’s dance artists. By regularly staging works of Taiwanese choreographers as well as commissioning international artists to set pieces on the company, HORSE aims to create a fertile ground for mutual stimulation and to establish a repertoire of “changeable”, “multi- faceted” and “diverse” styles.
With the support of the Ministry of Culture of Taiwan.

Source: https://plovdiv2019.eu