Feast of Color

Last March in London: Van Cleef & Arpels' Dance Reflections festival hosted a four-week program of over 50 productions at seven venues. While most of the pieces were shown in traditional proscenium theaters, the vibrant and inventive production Hagay Dreaming was performed in the gargantuan space of Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall.

Hagay Dreaming was created through the collaboration of Shu Lea Cheang, a septuagenarian American Taiwanese filmmaker and artist, and Dondon Hounwn, a Truku (or Taroko) artist from Taiwan. It is a highly visual and spectacular work that draws upon Hounwn’s interpretation of ancestral Truku tribal music and Cheang’s futuristic mixed-media art to tell the story of a hunter (Sinkuy Katadrepan) who gets caught in a sudden and torrential storm. Finding shelter in a tree ...