《Proximities》Taiwan Version

“ PROXIMITIES, focus on a vital feeling. How close are we to others and to our own nature? To what extent can distance still be a strength and a momentum to feel proximity more intensely? ”

Olé Khamchanla
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In this piece, Olé Khamchanla questions human beings and their interactions with others.
In turn, he explores the closeness that is discovered in dances, at the crossroads of cultures, in relationships with oneself and with others. He transmits his unique and powerful dance to the three performers and incorporates classical ballet for the first time.
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The show is built in three parts, each of which shows a possible proximity.
The first is a trio that offers a space where dancers can confront and compare themselves in a codified dance between classical European ballet and traditional dances from South Asia.

The second is a duo with actually two solos, a look at oneself, at transformation, at gender. A crossing of the plural personalities with which we must all combine in our intimacy to move forward and meet the other.

Then appears the five, strongly connected despite the anarchy of the spaces, the personalities confront and connect in a powerful and organic dance.
SHOWCASED in Want to Dance Festival 2024

Duration｜ 70 min for the full version / 20 to 25 min per module

Production Team | Lei Dance Theater
Producer | Yu-Ching Wang (Alison)
Artistic direction & Choreography | Olé Khamchanla
Dancers | Ai-Hsuan Chou, Jyun-Yi Lin, Chen Hsu, Yu-Ting Tseng, Wen-Ting CHang
Composer | Mathieu Vallet
Light Creation | Michel Vendittelli
Light Design (TW) | Yun-Hsiang Kuan
Costume Creation | LychEE
Costume Design (TW) | Chi-Fan Huang
Production Assistant ｜ Zoe Lin
Photographer | Ren-Nan Huang

Tour

2024

APRIL
(Taiwan – Taipei） Want to Dance Festival
April 20th Sat 20:30
Tangbu District Ａ
April 21st Sun 17:00
Longshan District Blacl Box
SEPTEMBER
(Singapore)
NOVEMBER
(Taiwan – Kaohsiung） National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying)
DECEMBER
(Laos)

2025

APRIL
(Taiwan -Hsin-Chu Hsin-Chu County Theater
MAY
(Taiwan – Taipei) National Theater and Concert Hall (ET)
JUNE
(Taiwan- Taichung)National Taichung Theater