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Photo:Oculus (©LIU Chen-hsiang, provided by CLOUD GATE )
\n\nWhile thinking of how Oculus moved me, I jotted down a few memories. Now, as I am on the path of choreography, I think about what kinds of dances I will create. I have recently been working on The Center with a highly experienced Taiwanese theater artist named CHENG Chih-chung, viewing the relationship of people to the world from the angle of equality and inequality for the physically disabled. If WU were still alive, he would be about the same age as CHENG. I always feel so powered by them. I once briefly met WU, noticing how filled with hope his eyes were. CHENG long ago freed found relief from the difficulties of his identity as a physically disabled person, attaining freedom and possibilities within theater and art. This show will be performed at Weiwuying. It is not just a work of dance. It is the hope that this city gave me. Dance steps that have faded away yet still are sources of power continue to be danced in some unknown place. There was once such a dancer in Kaohsiung.
\n\nWeiwuying will be a venue for many works that will leave behind a sense of life. I look forward to seeing that life once again. I will be living in Kaohsiung for a while too, sharing the love and pain of the life of dance.
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\n\nWeiwuying Artist-In-Residence-CHOU Shu-yi
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