FRINGE AWARDS

Best Theatre Performance

《Still Air》

As the "Air Lover" is no longer the pronoun as an imaginary sweetheart, as the air is just air, speechless, breathless, but everywhere, how can the hit start between human bodies and air? Plus, how to say goodbye as it ends? A piece of self-deprecating performance of a single man (and maybe more?), with love-craving loneliness and sweetness.

Co-coism is a multi-creator collective.
The company was funded in 2016 by Chien-Han Hung, Kang-Hua Chang, and Ding-Yun Huang.
The core concept is cooperative/devised theatre perusing for horizontal consensus/deliberation, aiming to Live Exhibition, Responding Creation, New Media, Scenagraphy, Immersive Project, and Activism.
We are planning to collaborate co-artists who have different background on the development and production.
https://www.facebook.com/a.cocoism/

Best Dance Performance

Flurry tale

4 artists, 3 countries, 2 art-fields, 1 topic

Reality vs Fantasy

These two opposites have always been drifting people in between, but does ones personal reality correspond to the mass understanding? On the other hand these two different dimensions can be understood as holograms, which are fluent in time and space. The artists explore during the performance what happens if these two holograms are pushed into each others, becoming together as one.

"Narrators lowdown" is a group of artists coming from different cultural and geographical backgrounds. This group includes one photo artist and three dancers, with backgrounds in contemporary dance, breaking, ballet and hip hop, dealing with their own characters in a continuous communication with different environments, to dig deeper in to the essence of their own fantasy worlds. In the same time they are working hard on the refinement of their technical skills to push the general level of these art fields.
https://www.facebook.com/flurry4tale

Best Comedy Performance

《The path of love》

Alice Su, a single woman suffering from pre-mature midlife crises right before she turned 30. Her fear of being single and alone, living a mundane lifestyle, trapped in a cubicle, where the world of internet is the only thing holding everything together… “Where is my Prince Charming?” Will there still be hope for her finding love after walking this lonely path for the past 30 years?

“Ours” was founded in 2015, by a group of 5 women who are from different generations, occupations, yet all very passionate about theater preforming arts. The word “Our” in Chinese, is pronounced “Wo-Men” which is similar to “women”. We like to share with you how we “a group of women” view this world, because we believe that drama can lead us to appreciate details of our daily lives.
https://www.facebook.com/OursTheater20141224/?ref=ts&fref=ts

Most Creative Award

《White Hole》

"There’s a hole in front of me, a white hole. I cautiously approach the hole, and then peeking into it. What I saw from the hole makes me feel a sense of déjà vu. Now I really want to get into it. Whatever happens, it is surely better than the world I am in. Wait, there’s a weird guy stepping out of the hole…"

It's embarrassing to even mention that word—youth. There's a type of person who live like an old man when they're in youth while they live like a teenager when they're not young anymore. Are they always taking against the world, or is there an indescribable status in them that never change?

Applying animation, video, installation, object, and sound to performance, "White Hole" aims to display the life of those misfits.

Founded by a theatre virgin (who got crazy into '90s culture) and her young friends. She said, "Theatre is my erotic dream, oh, no, I mean the dream I had when I was young. "

"Miss Misery" is named after a song, featured in 1997 by American singer-songwriter Elliott Smith who died young, in memory of those old beloved days.
https://www.facebook.com/missmiserystuido/

2017 Genuinely Fringe

Genuinely Fringe

《Susans Go！》

Everyone has the ability to think independently. However, as they grow older and join different type of groups, their thought becomes blindly. A girl, Shan Shan, want to think outside the box, find the truth of everything and be herself.

171.3% Soo WHAT！？ The name of this group is inspired by the average height of our six male dancers, and the name of our one female dancer. We use the existing society as our theme, to show our audience the truth and dark side of our society. We hope you can enjoy this show.
https://www.facebook.com/171.3soowhat/

Genuinely Fringe

《Theatrical Puja》

“Theatrical Puja” is a ritual according to the Buddhist texts “ The Yoga Flaming Mouth Ceremony”. In the ceremony, Monks plays the roles as a Buddha to help those beings of the ghostly path out of their Sin and Karma. We rewrite the texts in a theatrical way. The whole ceremony spends about seven hours. We only excerpt the first two part to present .

CHOU , Neng-An, graduated from Taipei National University of the Arts, Department of Theatre Arts. Self numerology, calligraphy, juggling. Learning Chinese tea from teacher Chen Xiujuan. 2015 Creation of interaction performance "Divination Show"
The idea of “Theatrical Puja” started since 2012. Through our project to reach the connection of Taiwanese ritual and theatrical art. Pursuing reproduce the ceremony presentation, we write our script
based on the slice of Buddhist texts truthfully.
https://goo.gl/3Lbah9

Thumbs Up!!

《Fancy Land》

The feature of Dr. FANCY's music is representing pop music colored with contemporary music, which brings audiences the familiar tune, yet, the mystery of ambience. By assigning each song a character, the entire program will be a musical without actual text but inspiring each listerner to build their own story in their mind.

Dr. FANCY is found by composer Chloe Yuchun Hu in the beginning of 2016. The core members are Lu Lee and Yuchun Hu herself. Duo to a variety of themes of programs, they collaborate with all types of musicians, artists, fashion designer internationally to break the boundary of art form.
https://www.facebook.com/whomakesmusic/

Thumbs Up!!

《The First Tremble》

First tremble, the first crying of a newborn baby's shaking. People are given new breath in the stream of life's journey. On the journey, they converge, leave, and walking alone in this world. The First tremble is not only a performance but also a ceremony to show gratitude for everything. May this show dedicated to those who we meet in the life.

The artist creation with Driftwood
Sound artist
Improvisational dancer
We are a team which consists of various artists, and all of us love our native land . The performance, The First Tremble, is an experimental theater including driftwood art, improvisational contemporary dance , electronic music and other elements. We will have our debut at Miculture Tiger Mountain.
https://www.facebook.com/DriftersProduction

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《Uncanny Valley》

What is man? A non-biological android is created one piece at a time, while the scientist who created it teaches it how to look human, talk with humans, and form relationships with them.

Drawing on the latest scientific research, "Uncanny Valley" explores the painful divide between creator and creation, and how we are redefining what it means to be human in the 21st century.

We are a group of people who love theatre; this is our test. We want to see if in the drama circle which is so fanciful, whether we can produce good plays that explore what the world is really like, to let the audience meditate on the outer and inner world.
https://goo.gl/9CJxoR

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《Flight Number AT-1930》

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome on board to Lala airline. This flight is flying to attendants’ heart and mind, you may enjoy our crew’s boring yet entertaining trivia during this flight. Our flight time will be 70 minutes, as some might encounter unstable emotions during the flight, please fasten your seatbelt and enjoy our services. We are looking forward seeing you stay on board the whole time.

Welcome on board, Mrs.Wang. It‘s really happy to see you , your seat number is 8c. Please go ahead, on the aisle. Have a nice trip.

May I have your boarding pass, your seat have been already occupied, this is our mistake, I will sort this right away .

A bottle of water, Certainly madam. I will be here with you right away. May I interest do you have anything to help?
https://www.facebook.com/roommates.tw/

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《Still Here》

A gang of old friends went their separate ways after their dramatic college years. But with their undying love for performance art, they dream the same dream every night that perhaps one day in theater, they could meet again. Today, this dream seems to have a chance of coming true.
https://www.facebook.com/modernhanji/

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《Are you happy? Norah》

Inspired by a novel, "The Memory Keeper's Daughter" by American author Kim Edwards that tells a story of a father separates his son from his twin sister at birth to prevent him and the mother from knowing she was born with Down syndrome.

"InTW Studio" was founded in Taiwan in 2016."InTW",the predecessor of "InTW Studio" was founded by Hsiao-Wei Hsieh and Hsiao-Ting Hsieh in New York in 2013. The venues that have hosted their include prominent festivals and showcases in New York City.They had their self-production twice,《City Impression Series No.1》in Manhattan Movement & Arts Center(2012)、《52 Hertz》in Martha Graham Studio Theater(2015).
http://www.intwstudio.com/#bio

Audience Award

《Where is Jimmy?》

“How much time do you have for waiting? “
Welcome to , we have a whole wall for books, hand-made cakes, and… a waiter who is waiting for somebody. The girl comes to again, just like usual, she orders a piece of vanilla cake and asks the waiter, ”Do you know where is Jimmy?”
And this, makes the day a whole new day.

Goldfish-head Teens, a group of teens who all deeply in love with drama. Oh by the way, they all have a bad memory.Cause we love musical very much, we would like to make our own musical in Chinese.
We get the idea from our daily life, try to reflect our thinking and the problems we encounter in life. But we would show it by a cute way~ Wondering how we do it? Come and see us show!
https://www.facebook.com/2016WhereisJimmy/