...a supple dancer who can express subtle strangeness and violence...a choreographer with a highly associative mind... -The New Yorker
I am currently engaged in the plasticity of memory,
how it forms/reforms in a series of recalled actions.
There is a particular restlessness to it.
I am using memory recall as a creative practice to discover potential futures,
to excavate the interplay between
memory,
language,
sensation,
to see where/what things stick,
and acknowledge the space and power of forgetting.
Then I make/shape something out of what is unearthed,
often times performative and/or linguistic.
Memory needs a body, a container.
I wonder how it can be harnessed or passed on.
(photo | Marion Borriss)
Enrico Dau Yang Wey is from Taiwan. They are a senior member of Handspring Puppet Company (SA) as seen in William Kentridge’s Il Ritorno d’Ulisse and in War Horse on Broadway. They are the Puppetry Director and Associate Artistic Director for The Walk/Little Amal.
For many years under their umbrella project, [fertile fields], Enrico has been persistently unpicking the tightly woven fibers of sound, landscape, and memory through performance and mnemonic practice.
Compelled by the concrete nature of monuments and the (hi)stories they propose to carry, [ fertile fields ] began as a live attempt to construct memory and sound as terrain: a structure that delves into the elusive nature of memory, acknowledges the desire to contain it within solid material and struggles to dismantle it.
Previous independent works have been made through the support of Danspace Project, DTW (US), Conde Duque, CA2M (ES), Perdu (NL) and LMCC’s R2R Festival (US).
Other notable roles include Shulea Cheang’s 3x3x6 (2019 Venice Biennale Taiwan Pavilion), Dennis Cooper/Zac Farley’s feature film Like Cattle Towards Glow and onstage for Robyn Orlin, Big Dance Theater, Aitana Cordero, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Yvonne Meier, and Rob Icke.
They are currently working with YaaSamar Dance Theater - a transnational company based between New York and Palestine - as performer and dramaturg.
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