2015 Fringe Awards

Yong Zhen Fringe Award

My Luxurious 50SQFT Life

A multimedia performance featuring the housing problem of Hong Kong. Explore how life in 50 square feet sub-divided units influences people’s interpersonal relationships and family communications. Through installations, life video projections, physical performance,audio effects and interaction with the audience, we investigate the issues of inhuman living conditions and the reasons behind the emergence of sub-divided units. Cinematic Theatre has visited Philippines,Singapore, Shanghai,Taiwan,Macau and Shenzhen for cultural exchange performances since 2003.

Performing Artists / Cinematic Theatre Limited

Cinematic Theatre Company was founded in February 2002 by Ms Ching-man Lo,a full-fledged former actor of Chung Ying Theater Company. We operate under a model of non-profit making theatre troupe.The Company’s name indicates that cinematic language takes an important role in shaping the theatrical style of the productions. We focus on original works which explore the horizons and soul of modern people. The elements of intertwining imagination and reality plus the past and the present,is also one of the phenomenal characteristics of our works.
https://www.facebook.com/cmtheatre

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Yong Zhen Future Star Award / Audience Award

Whatever

In 2015, we're undergoing an action of choreography and performance. With humorous, funny, and ironic ways we will show you the part of the content.

Media shows single and flattened viewpoints, keeping us from knowing things in other aspects. Even when using Facebook as individuals, we share particular stories to create certain images of ourselves. How different it is between what we see and the reality?

Performing Artists / Happy Cola's Friends

Ko-Yang Chang, graduated from Geoscience of National Taiwan University and being a dancer of Green Wave Dance Theater and Dancecology now, keeps dancing and doing choreography. It is the first time that we hold an independent performance, with a group of funny friends from different fields. We’d like to create a performance and criticize social phenomenon happily.
https://www.facebook.com/happycolasfriends

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Most Creative Award

Chang Fong Chuei Foo

Ready? Go!
Do you like running?
I think I start to like it.
Not enough.
Score is that all you need?
This is what I run for.
Sprinting.
The moment, our moment.

Performing Artists / Marseum

Mars+museum:
Determined to discover new matters.

Last year we had our debut at Tapei fringe festival, which was . This year, we will present our second project, with totally new idea and energy.

Will soon be graduated from university, we establish our troupe this year and are ready to make our every effort to continue our work.

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Best Space Award

Her Last Utterance

Original Comedy + Martial Art + Dance + Pole + Perfect Cast
This story is about a man and his lover, who hides a secret. He is waiting, but all they need is a miracle.

Performing Artists / YuLiA C. Lab Space

YuLiA C. LAB SPACE is a personal studio set up in 2015, by Yow-Ruu Chen.
She’s engaged in Theatre Directing, photographic and interdisciplinary works.
She like to work with Role, let the Role wake away from the Play, to see how the Role living in a new place. This is part of her Working Projects.
https://goo.gl/Vfphl1

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Best Theatre Performance

Project：P

Welcome to the Peter Pan Game, this is a game of escape and not to escape. Face the game and fix the problem, figure out the puzzle, then you can walk out of the game for you have been grown.

dramAcappella ensemble presents, a black box a cappella musical.

Performing Artists / dramAcappella ensemble

DramAcapella ensemble is founded by a group of people who dream big in drama and acapella. We love acapella (singing without instrumental accompaniment) and drama, therefore we combine these two elements and cooperate with different people to make our works better. Hope you enjoy our show, and love your life from our show.
https://www.facebook.com/dramAcappella

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Best Dance Performance

Histoire d'amour

Three friends, two men with a woman, pass by each other in a same story. A love story being written, being told in three various perspective an make this story more and more blurry. in this story, everyone has their own way interpreting their relationship, and their contradiction of love.

Performing Artists / The Double Theatre / Ya-Wei Chang

Ya-Wei Chang. Graduate from Taiwan University of Arts. Now she's a free dancer and choreographer. recently, she's very active.
2015 Movement Design of "Belle Reprieve" of Tainaner Ensemble.
2015 Director of Movements of "Red Demon"Taiwan National Universiy of Arts Department of Theatre Arts.
2015 Perfomer of "Out of Place" of The Double Theatre.
https://www.facebook.com/doubletheatre

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Best Music Performance

Summer Rolling｜Concert

Let us show you something different this summer.

Come join in Connie Lu's「Summer Rolling」gig with special guest [Lonely Grandma]- “most of the time” solo but forever a band!- Friends! Family! Fans! None-fans! Whoever you are, let’s parrrrrrrty!!

Once-a-year show! Don't miss it!

Performing Artists / Connie and Lonely Grandma

Indie singer and song writer Connie Lu so far has four albums released. Golden Melody Awards and Golden Indie Music Awards nominated her for Best New Artists and Best Folk Single.

Lonely Grandma was founded by frontman Connie, cajon player A-Fun, guitarist Kohan and bassist Obear.

Sky is the limit with these old friends jamming together!
http://www.facebook.com/connie.luhsin

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Best Other Performance

Dust in White

A medical dispute became the key to exposing the systematic overworking of hospital personnel.
In face of management level's seeking accountability between the trio, how can the mistake-ridden newjoined nurse, wishing to be promoted senior nurse ,soon-to-retired head nurse work together to endure the looming storm?

This work focuses on problem of overworked medical workforce of Taiwan as a starting point, and extend to the overall youth dilemma; discussion explores the impact upon nurses when faced with inhumane work schedule, extended working hours, underpaid human resource, cross-department laboring, and pressure of evaluation scheme. Especially when faced with medical disputes, how should we view the attribution of responsibility?

Performing Artists / Junior Group of Center for Applied Theatre, Taiwan

Junior group of Centre for Applied Theatre, Taiwan is established in June of 2014. Members includes graduate and post-graduate level drama and non-drama majors who are interested in Applied Theater. After learning workshops and internship experiences, the group hopes to utilize forum theatre in presenting life issues in a more forward looking way.
https://www.facebook.com/CATT.dustinwhite

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Best Comedy Performance

Look! My Left Cheek is Smoothier Yo

A young man just got fired. He went back to his mother's yet found his room occupied by an mysterious woman. Turned out his younger bro. started working in multi-level marketing business, and the woman was his so-called "partner"...

Performing Artists / On Stage Performing Arts Studio

Facing the disorder of the society, some writes, some ignores, while we act on stage. On Stage is where we dream big. Road ahead remains unknown but we know it’s a must-do in this lifetime. Seeking for “truth” in life and working on original script, we restore the shedding tears from social issue and bring it up on stage with bits of laughter.
On Stage, we dream and we do it.
https://www.facebook.com/jisonstage

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Thumbs Up!!

Children

Women, Man

Performing Artists / Sun and Day Ensemble

Sunrise,Sunset.
Day and Night.
Sun and Day.
"Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear!"
https://goo.gl/tKjmYd

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34B｜177-65-22-Versatile

It is a story about a man and a woman living next door in a big city, where we all become numbers under all kinds of discipline.

“177-65-22-versatile” is the gay man, who uses the code as everyone else to get himself into casual sex. Through the representation of this process, we expect to depict the variety of homosexual image and to portray the perspective on class which gay theater nowadays is very much lack of.

“34B” is the woman. Her bra size. We hereby hope to connect the suffering of homosexual with more general oppression in everyday life, such as body surveillance, topic of consumption, disorders and anxiety in modern life. Overall, we are all struggle to live with more dignity instead of just surviving.

Performing Artists / 1.33:1 in Blue Desert

Deeply inspired by the film "Il Deserto Rosso" (The Red Desert, directed by Michelangelo Antonioni ) and a "blue boy". We all live in a wide, blue desert nowadays. Also, films are always the main inspiration for us, so we have "1.33:1", as cinema is the light in this emptiness and loneliness.
https://www.facebook.com/inthebluedesert

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Son of the Chaos

Inspired by Kenzaburo Oe's significant piece The Death of a Political Youth
"Who is Kenzaburo?"
"He is a japaness autor who won the Nobel Prize."

Performing Artists / Hsimsungsung Studio

Hsimsungsung studio embryonic in the late spring of 2006, co-founded by CHEN,YAN-WEI and
Phoenix Lu. Hsimsungsung studio can expect a unique creative thinking and thinking and realize life through theater will give the audience and convey their awareness and provoke thinking on their lives. Do not look forward to a positive social atmosphere lead lofty ideals, they just want to be able to make at least one audience because of the performances in the theater to get in touch, that's probably sufficient.
https://www.facebook.com/HSIMSUNGSUNG

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FAKE

What the Fake.
It is not real, but it wants to be real; It is counterfeit because it choose no risking way. If all living things are perfect copy, we will have few pleasures. If all living things are distinct, the dazzling whole will make us confused. Fake is a confort zone, we all get some joy with the tiny difference.

Performing Artists / Squad of Five Year

Squad of Five Year, Five Year is a group of friends who want dancing together, they dance, read, write, cook...etc. When time goes by, these people become different kind of social-man and each of them has life of different color. But there still exist a small squad of them, sometimes go out to keep dancing and dancing.

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Don't let me lose the ability to love

What we see is so varied and diverse, if I could change,
let me use a better way to explore the mysteries of life.

Sounds and voice leads the stories in the theater. A journey of finding love in your ear.

Performing Artists / Mflover

MinFongTienShia is an apartment near to the art school. We talk about play on the dinner table and memorize the lines in the bathroom. Up and down stairs lives our schoolmates ,talking about what are we doing recently in the elevator. In the next building are our friends in music department . While we walk to the bus station we talk about the music of the play. After many times of going home and out , we decide to make the project .
https://goo.gl/iWNXd0

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Animate Pop-up Book Theater "Le Petit Prince" ~a fairy tale written for adults

3D animation plus live performance, brand new style of storytelling theater. Original 3D animation and paper art from Taiwan that bring a magical pop-up book stage. Indie music plus storytelling theater which will tell you the most beautiful story of "the little prince"

Performing Artists / Sus Scrofa Studio

Animation should not be considered as a part of TV and movies, but a part of daily and brought closer to people. The group, composed of professional animation artists, focus on exploring unlimited possibility of animation while blending it with various performing elements,including drama,dance, music and variety show, so as to create different performing style. It vows to lift animation out of traditional perspective and enriches its role as an entertainment.
https://www.facebook.com/animatepopupbook

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The Music Prince No.1

A grope of handsome and cool,
Don't like talking,
Don't like noise,
Don't mind anyone,
Don't care say something from anybody;
By Music,
they gather,
they see more people,
they join the world that they don't understand,
And,we have the chance to see them.

Performing Artists / Music Skill Promotion Association for The Disabled R.O.C.

1996, a group of parents and teachers who never gave up on disabled children began using music to provide them with therapy. This began with just a mere exposure to music, but then later progressed to teaching these students to play various instruments, as well as placing them into ensembles together. 2009, second group gave music lessons to beginners.
2010, named G. D. Ensemble Band . This provided more chances for disabled people to learn music. 2011,MSPAD was established in.
https://goo.gl/HtWmAf

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Genuinely Fringe

Mobius syndrome

This script is based on the true Taiwanese story and we hope that you may find your existing in this musical.

Performing Artists / S.J.Studio

S.J.Studio is a music studio which is founded by Shih and Jeff, sister and brother. Usually, Shih is a composer and Jeff is an music arranger. They love playing music ever since they are young. They think that music is the best way to say out what we want and to communicate with others.
https://www.facebook.com/ShihJeffStudio

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Genuinely Fringe

Possessed

Home, a place to depend on to purify the body that is full of turbid, and when the scale has reached it's balance, none of the sides would be able to add any weight, even if it’s weight is as light as a feather.

Performing Artists / Naked (R . O . D) theatric troupe

Naked (R . O . D) theatric troupe,
symbolizes our nakedness of the subject, our nakedness, and the audiences’ nakedness. It also keeps the spirit of RIDE OR DIE. If you don’t move forward, you die, and if you don’t die, then keep onward forever on the road of art.
https://www.facebook.com/R.O.D.2013

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Genuinely Fringe

See Othello

Shakespeare wrote the story of Othello,
The story is very simple: A black person as a general in the white world. Then become a beautiful woman's husband. Because the suspect's sake, he killed his wife. Finally, killed himself.

Performing Artists / Tian Group ╳ Wild grass theatrical company

Tian Group: Founded in 2015 by KE DER FONG and KAO HSIOU HUI.Like artistic diversity. Our faith is "we do what we like and we like what we do"

Wild grass theatrical company:Founded in 2013 by Chu CHENG MING. Our faith is "From the bottom of society, explore the social situation, try to explore and practice".
https://goo.gl/Bpbdiq

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2016 臺北藝穗節首獎《永真藝穗獎》

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