ICE AGE

ICE AGE world premiere : 5-21 Aug. /16:15-17:05 /Dance Base /studio 1

https://www.dancebase.co.uk/festival-shows/ice-age-resident-island-dance-theatre-x-maylis-arrabit-5-21-august-2165

Ice Age is a new international inclusive choreographic collaboration between visually impaired choreographer CHANG Chung-an and disabled choreographer Maylis ARRABIT. The piece explores the different ways that people support each other, each in their own cultural environments. Covid-19 has brought the world to a standstill, and has impacted every country differently. It is a question of evoking the coexistence between two parallel realities, separated by “space-time” and at the same time, united by it. Then, an action, a gesture and contemplation are very meaningful.
This project has been developing online since 2020, due to the pandemic. We have been supported and mentored by Morag Deyes, MBE for the past two years. We presented a “work in progress” with Taiwan Dance Platform 2020 at the National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts-Weiwuying, and it’s also one of the shortlist of ISPA Pitch New Work in 2020. The R&D of ICE AGE was support by the British Council and Dance Base. The production is supported both the National Arts and Culture Foundation, Taiwan.
Since 2021, we continue to get to know and understand each other, to seek and develop the language and narrative of the piece. We look forward to the recombination of these two parallel realities that would create together while reunited in the same space-time this summer in Edinburgh.