11>22/04/2022

Garage29 and Halles de Schaerbeek come together for a 10 days workshop with showing guided by the amazing choreographer Yi-Chun Liu.

As a Peeping Tom company member, with whom she has been creating collectively and performing for over 9 years, Yi-Chun is now eager to channel her visions and build her own universe in the dance theater realm. She invites dancers and performers to study the relationship between the performer and the audience through empathy, counterpoint of soundscape and image.

She believes that to perform is to find a way to transmit the fullness of our beings into a specific moment. Her passion as a performer and creator is to search for gateways where the emotion can be transmitted to the audience; enabling them to experience what the performer is experiencing simultaneously. This is achieved by transforming everyday actions, into movements and embodiments that transcend the mundane, and become a refined form of physical poetry which deeply moves and touches an audience.

Yi-Chun also likes to play on the edge between ‘the performed’ and ‘the real’, so that the performer and the audience exist within the fragile line between the truly expressed and the made up, where these two seemingly contrasting tendencies, through their mutual tension, create a spectacle of the mysterious, the strange, the liminal.

Building fine bridges between the performer and the audience, Halles de Schaerbeek offers its stage for a double bill evening around Yi-Chun Liu’s work between the workshop’s ends and the work in progress of BATH, co-directed by Yi-Chun Liu and Eurudike de Beul on the 22nd at 8pm.

• Price: 200€
• Dates: From Monday 11th to Friday 22nd April (11am to 4:30pm with a lunch break)
• Send your application with your CV and a video of no longer than 3 minutes to introduce yourself vocally and physically to: contact@garage29-offestival.be
• Deadline for applications: March 11, 2022

Yi-Chun Liu is a multidisciplinary performer, over the years her work has spanned the fields of contemporary dance, ballet, and theatre. She has been a company member with Peeping Tom (BE) since 2013, and prior to that worked with amongst others: Anoukvandijk dc (NL), Ann Van den Broek WArd/waRD (BE), Landerer company (DE), Shang-Chi Sun (DE), Scapino Ballet Rotterdam (NL), Balletto Teatro di Torino (IT), Cloud Gate Dance Theatre (TW)…etc.

Yi-Chun is a master of transformation, both physically, spatially and vocally. She is able to transform herself on stage through the mastery of her body, her voice, and through her keen awareness of space and time as a tool for manipulation. These elements combine to give a performance of poetic beauty through an intense theatricality which expands everyday movement or gesture into something profound, eerie and theatrical. She is passionate about transmitting and further exploring these qualities in her workshop. Her teaching experience is extensive, she is trained in contemporary dance, ballet, Chinese opera and Tai-Chi Martial arts, as well she is an international certified Countertechnique teacher. She has worked with dancers, actors, singers, circus performers, teachers and those without any artistic background. Yi-Chun had worked as Assistant Director to Frank Chartier in Netherlands Dans Theater, and a movement choreographer with theater director Gaia Saitta.

In her teaching she gives her students tools to clarify their performance vocabulary and language, and then challenges them to create from a place that is breaking out of their habitual patterns. These creations are placed within the time limitations of the theatrical moment, encouraging non narrative physical storytelling that is precise and compact.