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DANCE FILM OPEN CALL

UNTIL FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The Cell

B.DANCE
Saturday 4. Nov 2023
18:30 GMT+1
Metropolis Kino
  • Dance Film
Taiwan

| Synopsis

Po-Cheng Tsai, artistic director of B.DANCE, presents the film version of his creation “The Cell,” along with film director Meng Hsueh Ho. Inspired by our state of mind in the age of the pandemic, with strict isolation and separation, it deals with the subject of facing constant temporal postponement, stagnation in space. In our self and our mind, the pursuit of connection appears vividly, coexisting in our consciousness: living together, moving together, competing, aligning, playing out our own self; it’s a coming together and a separation, individual and coupled, real and illusory.

In these post-pandemic times, a bright white light floods the stage, begins to speak to me: close your eyes, come with me toward the supernormal, let’s go to ____, to that transcendent space-time jump.

Every character is in me: so which one is the real me? On the verge of disassociation, light leaks out in the shadow, a new day has dawned… but, today, which one of me will go along?

| Credits

Director: Po Cheng Tsai, Meng Hsueh Ho
Producer: Yen Ling, Yi, Chia Fang Sun
Cast: Shu Han Yeh, Chien Chih Chang, Ming Hsuan Liu, Li An Lo, Ho Chien Chang, Chen Ning Chang, Wen Yu Tseng, Yu Hung Wang, Hsing Tseng, I Ling Lin
Choreographer: Po Cheng Tsai
Action Director: Sheng Ho Chang
Director of Photography: Chien Che Tang
1st Assistant Cameraman: Chih Yu Chien
2nd Assistant Cameraman: Bi Kai Chang
Gaffer: Yi Hua Chang
Best Boy: Ting Feng Jiang
2nd electrician: Hsiu Hui Wang
Aerial Photographer: Sheng Ho Chang
Editor: Meng Hsueh Ho
Sound Mixers: Po Cheng Tsai, Meng Hsueh Ho
Music: Chelsea McGough
Still Photographer: Chao Sheng Ho
Graphic Designer: Johnson Wang
Production Assistant: Yea Chyi Yu

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| Biography

Po Cheng Tsai, from Kaohsiung, Taiwan, is the founder and current artistic director of B.DANCE.
Tsai was born in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. After graduating from Tsoying Senior High School, he went to Taipei National University of the Arts.

During his university days, he got a scholarship to go to Purchase College, New York for exchange and learning. His works are often based on his own life experiences, perceptual, supplicated, but still humorous, with unique dance languages and treacherous and changeable styles. He often integrates theatres, dance, and extreme limb movements in his works.

From 2014 to 2019, he had presented several original pieces to the international dance circles as touchstones and received high praises along with 4 gold medals and 1 silver medal from multiple choreography competitions around the world. In 2018, Tanz, a German magazine, included Tsai as one of the 2017/2018 most promising young choreographers around the world. Tsai was selected as the “best emerging choreographer of the year” by the France National Board of Performance Arts in 2020 and one of the “Ten Outstanding Young Persons” in Taiwan in 2021.

| Biography

Po Cheng Tsai, from Kaohsiung, Taiwan, is the founder and current artistic director of B.DANCE.
Tsai was born in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. After graduating from Tsoying Senior High School, he went to Taipei National University of the Arts.

During his university days, he got a scholarship to go to Purchase College, New York for exchange and learning. His works are often based on his own life experiences, perceptual, supplicated, but still humorous, with unique dance languages and treacherous and changeable styles. He often integrates theatres, dance, and extreme limb movements in his works.

From 2014 to 2019, he had presented several original pieces to the international dance circles as touchstones and received high praises along with 4 gold medals and 1 silver medal from multiple choreography competitions around the world. In 2018, Tanz, a German magazine, included Tsai as one of the 2017/2018 most promising young choreographers around the world. Tsai was selected as the “best emerging choreographer of the year” by the France National Board of Performance Arts in 2020 and one of the “Ten Outstanding Young Persons” in Taiwan in 2021.