DESIGN CONCEPT

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“Weeds” was a dance narrating the aboriginals who born up in the surrounding of beautiful sceneries and intimate familyhood couldn’t help leaving their homes and lived alone in the city when they grew up. They tried to find the  roots of themselves, the threads of the losing culture and faced the contradiction of the merging culture between the tribes and the cities.

We used hemp ropes as texture to symbolized little, yet wild and determined vitality of people who left there original home and lived alone in the city forest.The hemp ropes were hung upon the ceiling, released into tassels and cut in uneven length. It resembled the millets which the aboriginals used to hang up and preserve for a longer time.

I created a large curtain by hanging down the hemp ropes to the floor. This curtain not only served as a back drop but also established a variety of spaces with the dancers’ interactional movements. Furthermore, with the light coming from the back stage, the rough and irregular lines of the texture were exaggerated, and its shadows on the floor produced a sharp image of sunshine beams. Through this organic and interactive scenery, I attempted to make the performers felt the authentic sight in their memories of hometowns or present homes by touching the scene and triggered their interaction into dance and story.

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