2018 Edinburgh Festival Fringe
01 About the Show
節目介紹
In the 16th century, gazing out from the decks of ships off the coast of Southern China, Portuguese sailors saw it: a great green mass, thick with mountains and trees, rising from the sea. “Formosa!” they exclaimed—“beautiful!”—anointing the verdant place that would come to be known as Taiwan.
Our team and dancers take that appraisal as inspiration for our own work of abstract beauty born from land and lore.
With unparalleled grace, we mingle in intimations of community, making tribal ritual and urban bustle seem as one.
「五行」是東方的一種系統觀，包含了金、木、水、火、土，這五個元素。而這五個元素都有其代表的顏色，我們運用這五行五色，道出台灣的文化及地理之美。
「金」為白色，代表從無到有，萬物的起源皆由此開始；「木」為綠色，展現台灣大自然的精煉、傳統原住民文化與和平的象徵；「水」為黑色，展現台灣獨特的夜市生活；「火」為紅色，吉祥的象徵，更代表過年的團圓及喜樂；「土」為黃色，代表在這繁忙的都市生活中，現代人堅忍不拔的意志。
「五行台灣」想傳達的是在台灣的人文風情，透過聲音、肢體及影像展現台灣之美。
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03 Who We Are-The Graduate Institute of Performing Arts
Founded in August 2005, The Graduate Institute of Performing Arts has three sub-disciplines: theater performance, collaborative piano, arts marketing and industries.
The primary objective of the graduate institute is to provide high quality training for theater musicians, design artists, performing arts management administrators, collaborative pianists, and to establish the platform for cross-sectors collaboration in cultural creative Industries. With equal emphasis placed on theory and practice, this institute endeavors to provide fine-quality training for on-stage and backstage performing artists, hoping to catapult Taiwan’s performing arts to the world stage.
In the coming years, the graduate institute will build a “Performing Arts Center” in order to hold international performing arts conferences and seminars on a regular basis as well as host intercollegiate performing arts festivals and exhibitions. In addition, the institute will establish partnership with local performing arts groups and relative industries.