Horse Dance Theater will be invited to a webinar event "Performance Beyond the Proscenium" to share their outdoor production "FreeSteps – NiNi" with performing arts professionals in the U.S. and discuss the future role of non-traditional venues in the post-COVID-19 era, on Nov 22.
The Taiwan Academy of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Los Angeles partnered with Western Arts Alliance (WAA) to hold the event through Zoom while live streaming on WAA’s YouTube channel and Facebook.
This webinar will be hosted by Erin Boberg Doughton, Artistic Director and Curator of Performance at PICA. Huang Wen (黃雯), an independent producer based in Taiwan, is invited to present the production "FreeSteps – NiNi" by Horse Dance Theater - a dynamic dance project in which one lamp, one dancer and one small square stage come to people in their daily life.
In January 2022, while the Association of Performing Arts Professionals (APAP) and the International Society for the Performing Arts (ISPA) conferences takes place, "Contemporary Dance Festival: Japan + East Asia" will feature this production at the New York Japan Society. Other panelists include Azul Amaral, the creative director of Grand Performances; Christopher Rountree, the Artistic Director of modern music collective "Wild Up," and the artistic director for a series of performances titled as "SILENCE" at Descanso Gardens; brooke smiley, an indigenous (Osage) artist and dance maker whose creations and workshops are mostly site-specific and close to nature.
There are 5 sessions taking place from April to November 2021. The invited Taiwanese panelists include artistic director of the Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan Cheng Tsung-lung (鄭宗龍), director of Programming and International Development at the National Theater and Concert Hall in Taipei Lin Ting-Chun (林亭均), artistic director of Very Theatre Chou Tung-yen (周東彥), senior member of Ju Percussion Hwang Kuen-Yean (黃堃儼) and director of Taipei Performing Arts Center Austin Wang (王孟超).