Department of Cultural Affairs

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Girl’s Notes III by choreographer-dancer Su Pin-wen.

By Yali Chen
 
Five Taipei Fringe Awards winners presented their works at the Guling Street Avant-Garde Theatre from November 5 through November 8..
 
The five winners were Girl’s Notes III (少女須知（後）) by Su Pin-wen (蘇品文), Breathe In (一口氣) by Chang & Chao’s Musical Lab (老張老趙の樂劇實驗), Sadness That Lasts For A Long Period Of Time, Often Without Any Obvious Reason (注意：前方天空有片小的烏的雲) by Lee Ming-chieh (李明潔), Classic Love Pie Recipes (古典派的SM－巴洛克花園) by the Plan B Theatre (不然，B計畫), and Sealed Family (封箱家庭) by the GG CLUB (劇聚).
 
To support young artists and enable them to continue to create, Taipei Performing Arts Center (TPAC) launched Instant Fringe Encores (即刻重演) in 2017 as part of Taipei Fringe Festival.


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Sadness that Lasts for a Long Period of Time, Often Without Any Obvious Reason by independent choreographer Lee Ming-chieh.


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Classic Love Pie Recipes by the Plan B Theatre.
 
“The Fringe Festival is as an experimental platform for the artistic creation of the new generation,” said TPAC Director Austin Wang (王孟超). “The winners use their art to express a wide variety of issues, including feminism, interpersonal emotions, self-exploration, and family values.”
 
Choreographer-dancer Su Pin-wen’s Girl’s Notes III won the Fringe Award of the Year. It is the final installment in her three-year feminist project. Inspired by the book of the same title, Su continues to explore gender issues and contemporary feminism, this year using nudity to express the power of the female body. Su hopes that her project will become a curatorial platform for future dance creation and allow more creators to share resources and exchange ideas.


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Sealed Family by the GG CLUB.


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Breathe In by Chang & Chao’s Musical Lab.

Lee Ming-chieh is a freelance choreographer whose creations range from street dance to contemporary dance and performing arts. Her works transform surreal images into bodily movements to express the relationship between the objects we see and our memories.
 
Lee won the 2020 Man-fei Dance Award with Sadness That Lasts For A Long Period Of Time, Often Without Any Obvious Reason. She also won the Best Creative Award at this year’s festival. Many of her choreographic creations are concerned with people’s constant movement in the modern world, and they pose the question, “Is there any place I can truly call my own?”