Artist Spotlight: Tjimur Dance Theatre
Fluid Boundaries: Four Artists from the Pan-Austro-Nesian Arts Festival
[Transcript]
Djavadjavai (Greeting in Paiwan language)
Hello, I’m Ljuzem Madiljin, artistic director of Tjimur Dance Theatre. Today, I would like to share with you the concept “Varhung–The Body of Sound.” The Tjimur Dance Theatre was established in 2006. We’ve learned ancient rhymes in the Tjimur tribe. We also creating contemporary Paiwan body language and performance art in the Tjimur tribe. “Varhung–The Body of Sound” is our exploration of performance art. through four approaches “interrogating song and dance,” guidance through voice,” “breathing transformation,” and “voice transformation.”
We would like to share with you the beauty of the space in this work. We hope the audience can hear our breathing and each of the breaths, I hope the audience can see the breathing of the slate house. In each breath, we can feel the rhythm of the Paiwan four-step dance. In each breath, we can perceive the accentuated expression of the dancers. During the performance, one very important thing is “Varhung.” “Varhung” means heart in the Paiwan language. It’s the communication between hearts.
So we very much hope that this exhibition, we can all use our hearts to feel through hearing. What Tjimur Dance Theatre wishes to convey is the sound from the heart and the tradition and future perceived by the heart.
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