2017 Fringe Awards

Yong Zhen Fringe Award

A-BEI

“Will you still love me when the fantasy has whithered?”
Garsonplay Studio returns to the Taipei Fringe Festival with a play about a homely gay couple hitting their forties, who struggle to sustain their romance in the face of discrimination of the highest degree.

Performing Artists / Garsonplay Studio

Established in 2014, in Taoyuan, Taiwan, Garsonplay Studio creates original performances and invests in cultural and educational promotion. It is Taoyuan City’s Outstanding Performance Group of 2017.
https://www.facebook.com/garsonplay/

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Yong Zhen Future Star Award

Let me feel shame on a bed of roses

In 0.39 seconds for searching 136-million results, I have a flash to water a rose
Even I’m an unknown actor in 136-million results, I’m still able to water a rose.
An instant of the fall of the last leaf beyond the window
Is my ultimate moment for still orgasm

Performing Artists / SevenKOLO SOCIETY

Nana korobi (ななころび) drama club was established in 2017. なころび(nana korobi) comes from a Japanese proverb “nanakorobiyaoki” (ななころびやおき),which means falling down 7 times but rising 8 times, that is to say, always rising after a fall and failures.
https://www.facebook.com/sevenkolo/

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Best Theatre Performance

Male Dormitory

There are four boys , who come from Macau ,Hong Kong , China and Taiwan, sharing the same dormitory . Should they speak in Mandarin ? Or Cantonese? Besides the language, they are facing more culture shocks . After the first year, the Taiwanese is reckoning on moving as they are too "close" .

Performing Artists / Godot ArtAssociation (Macau)

Godot ArtAssociation
A non-profit art association come from Macau, founded in 2006. Macanese who love performing art were founded this group after two successful performance.
https://www.facebook.com/godotartassociation/

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Best Music Performance

Sing! Traveler!

Through the rearrangement of classic ballads of the world and the reinterpretation with the combination of huqin quintet and accordion music, the audiences could travel around the world by the leading of music and learn the unique music and culture of each region.

Performing Artists / Hufive Quintet

By the five love music and innocence of the professional composition of the composition, uphold the music regardless of high and low, as long as the touch is good music. Orchestra to string as the main axis, cohesion of five people's music power make music more wonderful, is "HUFIVE QUINTET"!
https://www.facebook.com/hufivequintet/

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Best Dance Performance

Cuddle

Cuddle is a piece combing dance theatre, live art and audience participation. Inspired by Marina Abramović, Cuddle aims to provide an environment where people are allowed to connect with each other directly, and firmly. No matter your identity, you will feel accepted, safe, confident, and loved within this piece.

Performing Artists / Lin Yu He

An old Chinese soldier, an Italian studying Buddhism for 11 years, a Filipino woman supporting her family back home, a daughter with big dreams in the big city, a aboriginal boy from Santimen … Outlanders 5.0, each singing life with their own tune: this is Cuddle [偎]
https://www.facebook.com/cuddle.tw/

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Most Creative Award

Model Story

Conversation gone wild in the art studio, naked body meets bared humanity.
The painter and the life drawing model, who has the secret uncovered?

Performing Artists / Single Ladies

We are Single Ladies. Guess who is married and who is teaser.
Inspired by real working experiences in studios. Revealing the stories of life drawing models.
https://www.facebook.com/SingleLadies520/

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Best Space Award

Playing with Xi Xi

The performance idea is created from four texts of Xi Xi’s Mourn Over the Breasts and Poetry Collection of Xi Xi, which will be focus on three identities: Female, Patient and Teacher in search for their common values and develop to immersive imagery theatre.

Performing Artists / Theatre Ronin

Theatre Ronin(Hong Kong)is founded by its artistic director Tam Hung Man in 2006.

Focusing on the ingenious concept of Theatre of Imagery, theatrical works are marked by highly stylized scenic elements.
Their works are belongs to Hong Kong people and adapts their literary works and cultural elements to the stage.
https://www.theatreronin.com.hk/

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Best Comedy/Cabaret Performance

Where's Jimmy ?

It's all about Fringe, about doing what we're doing, and about everything it takes to participate in Fringe.

10 Abstracts, deconstructing a "play".
Who is Jimmy? Where is Jimmy? What is Jimmy?

Performing Artists / dramAcappella ensemble

dramAcappella Ensemble, a group specialized in creating a cappella musical.

Born in 4th Fringe, won two awards in 6th and 8th Fringe, and is participating Fringe for the 7th year/ 8th times.
https://www.facebook.com/dramAcappella/

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Best Other Performance

Dimension Sense

The second element is the point line surface, three yuan with space, four yuan is to break the time of the distance, through the emotional and understanding of the world.

Performing Artists / BIO-V

To the visual arts as the basis, combined with dance and music and other elements, to create life and organic art of cross-domain performing artists.
https://www.facebook.com/DIMISENSE/

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Genuinely Fringe

Enactor

We transceive the information through virtual spaces and extend our intentions, thereby arranging things into our living-world. Body, as a medium between individuals and the world, is not only a corporeality, but also a carrier of the human will and spirit.

Performing Artists / Goonzone

Stem, Chinese pronunciation for goon, as branch branch of tree branch, tree update yourself from there.
They are good at subversive and unconventional creativity, and break the standard theater space, trying to create the infinite possibilities of discovering the performing arts.
https://enactor.wordpress.com/

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Genuinely Fringe

Night/Night

There is always a place that makes you fragile, it may be your room, the last bus or the crowds. Every time when people ask you to be healthy, you have nothing to say even you really want. Yet you just keep silence, smile…and cannot fall asleep.

Performing Artists / Life Holds No More

Those who are harmed by the world are the warmest people.
We are not people who hold nothing more, instead, we holds ALL.
https://www.facebook.com/night09070911/

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Genuinely Fringe

There Grows A Flower

"This society is unimaginative about one's body. In order to survive, I have no choice but keep denying myself...bullshit! "
Based on "Ying-ying (feminine) boy" Fanyu BUBU's music and artwork, this fantastic drag show sweetly integrates with music, dance, behavioral performance, experimental costume, and video.

Performing Artists / Miss Misery

We are founded by a group of queers in both life and theatre.
"Miss Misery" is named after Elliott Smith, in memory of the beloved '90s.
Awarded 2016 Taipei Fringe Festival "Most Creative Award"
https://www.facebook.com/missmiserystuido/

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The Pipa Xing Spin-off

A musical concert inspired from the poem “Pipa Xing”. It recreates the backstory of pipa lady who appeared in the poem.
The piece features live performances combining western and eastern, modern and traditional musical instruments, with the aim to explore narrative storytelling through animation.

Performing Artists / Sunrise Ensemble

Sunrise Ensemble was founded in 2012 by a group of Taiwanese in New Zealand. They participated in a variety of performances, including New Year festival, and a local TV station's fixed performance team. This year they gathered in Taiwan and ready to bring a new form of performance to you.
https://www.facebook.com/sunrise.ensemble

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Downshifting

This performance is very close to life, and hope through music and chat to each other, share those unspoken feelings.

Performing Artists / Lost Sounds

“Lost Sounds” is produced by youthful Taiwanese musicians YANG, Yi-Wei, HUANG, Hsuan-Jung and HUANG, Sze-Ting, using the instruments Zheng, Pipa, Liuqin, and Zhongruan.
“Lost” represents trying find a balance between traditional instruments and various other musical forms, to unearth the infinite possibilities in the creation of sounds.
https://lostsoundstudio.wixsite.com/lostsound/blank

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Pseudo Sentinelese

By applying acoustic sounds generated by daily objects, and electronic sounds generated by several different electronic devices, Papi Bucket will bring you to a place that only few people know.

Performing Artists / Papi Bucket

Papi Bucket is a street performer based in Taipei area, using buckets and some daily objects to make beats and entertain people.
https://www.facebook.com/PapiBucket/

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Sansei

Three thirds in conversation, on the balance between humans and objects:

The light gives structure to the sound, the textile to the skin, and the body to the site. As one circle encounters another, both are pushed and pulled, co-dependent as they intertwine and wrap around each other's environments.

Performing Artists / Sansei

Sansei is a team that mixes together body movement, installation, moving imagery, textile, and other artistic practices. The foundation for each experiment and central dialogue concerns how to connect people across different fields and engage with the potential of collaborative practice.
https://www.facebook.com/%E4%B8%89-%E7%94%9FSansei-254112421743902/?hc_ref=ARQHdILpE0QcNACPr_4mLaeiWqVnPI8WnLZjcYVqNLuKaeiwQFDZTZHm0va-6CcEqUs&fref=nf

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Weed

We go barefoot and say that we are the same.

Performing Artists / Girls in Wet Dream

來自山上和海邊的小孩
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於是長大了以後一腳被踹進都市叢林
城市裡沒有貓頭鷹也沒有鹿
而我們望見一隻蜻蜓正往上空飛
它的影子就好像藏在枕頭底下的夢
https://www.facebook.com/girlsinwetdreamweed/

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Darling, why are your pants still on?

It is heard that "Yao Wo" is good for our sex performance.
After 3-year hard-working on "Yao Wo", tonight is the night to let it explode.

Performing Artists / Ren Jhen Lian Wu Jhong

We come from Hsinchu, a city of engineers and nerds.
We dance, we make loves, and we are always ready for a clown fiesta!
https://www.facebook.com/RJLWing/

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The Hong Kong Three Sisters

Kwong directs “The Three Sisters” in an avant-garde approach. In the course of a run-through, an actor disappears. It comes to a halt and dialogues between the director and the actors take place, revealing the other side of the actors’ life at this very moment and scene of Hong Kong.

Performing Artists / Alice Theatre Laboratory

ATL is a Hong Kong theatre company that receives grant from the HKADC. ATL is devoted to experimental performances that has been nominated for and received awards for the HK Drama Awards and the HK Theatre Libre. CNNGo has acclaimed ATL as one of the five-most-watchable HK theatre companies.
http://www.alicetheatre.com/home.html

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UNDIES

How many undies must a gay try on, before you call him a "gay"? Imagine you're a newly-came-out insecure fatty, a twink stuck on his FWB, a masculine bear never taken, a famous chick tired of woofing on apps, what would you do to be more like a greatest type?

Performing Artists / Mo Hey

Mo Hey, former Fixing U Studio, has produced two productions: LE YUAN (Wonderland) and WU NU (House Woman). The name Mo Hey, meaning searching in the dark, signifies a way that theater looks like, a way of creation, and a way to find ourselves.
https://www.facebook.com/MoHeyTaiwan

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《He,She,He》

Under the same eaves, they have their own emotional, own life, own rhythm. We keep growing up in the subconscious, a place, a place no one knows, a place, a place where we feel at ease.
ISHIKAWA YUUSUKE push the door,standing on the balcony,why the suicase is here...

Performing Artists / R.O.D

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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Audience Award

Sing! Traveler!

Through the rearrangement of classic ballads of the world and the reinterpretation with the combination of huqin quintet and accordion music, the audiences could travel around the world by the leading of music and learn the unique music and culture of each region.

Performing Artists / Hufive Quintet

By the five love music and innocence of the professional composition of the composition, uphold the music regardless of high and low, as long as the touch is good music. Orchestra to string as the main axis, cohesion of five people's music power make music more wonderful, is "HUFIVE QUINTET"!
https://www.facebook.com/hufivequintet/

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