Movement Project
Interested in the dancing and performing that lives outside of stages and studios, Hsin-Yu is constantly experimenting with different movement projects. From just rolling around in their living room to eating popcorn on an air mattress in the middle of a square, they like to explore and question how movements sit in this world.
One-to-one Performance:
Picnic under the Tree
May 2022
Outline
Location: Under a tree
Audience: My classmate from my Anthropology class that I know but don’t know very well
Meeting: Walk to the location together after class on Thursday. We set up the blanket together.
Time: 90-100min
Sound: We were chatting casually during the performance. It was drizzling earlier that day and we were outdoors. Besides each other, we could also hear water, rain, leaves, birds, people, breeze, cars, and many more.
Props: blanket, paper, pencils, apples, blindfold
Directions:
(each approximately 10-15 min)
-Set up, Check in with touch/ mask off/ agency to exit and end the performance
-Lie side by side
-Sit face to face
-Hold hands to hands
-Eat the apples back to back
-Eat the apples face to face
-Portrait chat
-Blindfolded walk and guiding (both tried once)
-Lie side by side
-Check out, Clean up
a casual phone call
by Hsin-Yu Huang
In a casual phone call, Hsin-Yu was dancing topless behind the curtain, and participants were invited to participate the following score:
call me or not
let me call you or not
pick up the call or not
talk or not
interatect or not
eat or not
move or not
leave or not
hang off the call or not
give the phone to someone else or not
come visit me or not
you can do everything or nothing, go anywhere or nowhere.
Only one rule, no touch.
The project wanted to explore the different ways intimacy can be mediated.
a cliche: about love, power, and freedom, especially freedom
by Hsin-Yu Huang
In a cliche: about love, power, and freedom. especially freedom, the "performer", blindfolded and ears plugged, had a thirty-minute improv duet with a "first audience" on an air mattress in the middle of an open public space. They took turn and did both roles.
There are many shared expectations on what a “performance” could or should look like, and I think that limits the kinds of conversations and relationships that can happen in it. In this project, I’m interested in experimenting and challenging the different relationships between performers and viewers, and the line between the stage and the audience. How many of those unspoken rules can we abandon to still keep it as a “performance”? What if the performers are just activators or initiators of the performance, and the viewers, instead of merely passively viewing, have the freedom and power to interpret and expand it? How free and can we, both the performers and the viewers, be in a performance? How can the exercise of control and influence over the people and the space in a traditional performance be transformed into something more gentle, intimate, and mutual?