Dance

Winner of 15th Taishin Performing Arts Award (2017), KIDS celebrates the exuberance of life in face of death through highly original body language and theatrical elements. An autobiographical tribute to his late mother, Taiwanese choreographer and dancer Liu Kuan Hsiang’s KIDS is inspired by the many conversations they had during her chemotherapy treatment. Touching on family memories, illusion and reality, and his mother’s impending passing, the conversations—spoken in Taiwanese dialect—were poignant reflections of her life and place in Taiwanese culture and society. KIDS transforms these highly intimate experiences into calm ritualistic movements with twisted, frantic physical extremes—extremes which are as deliriously wild as they are serene or even joyful.