Geography: Asia > Eastern Asia > Taiwan
Year: 2026
Produced by: TAI Body Theatre
Creative Team: Conceived and choreographed by Watan Tusi; created with the TAI Body Theatre ensemble
Synopsis: That Song Is Still There, the Body Dreams uses movement to connect contemporary labour migration with older histories of Indigenous movement within Taiwan. The production considers people who leave home because livelihoods are available elsewhere, allowing migrant work to be understood through embodied repetition rather than a conventional journey narrative. Songs inspired by each location carry the audience from one location to another, preserving relationships with places that workers cannot inhabit continuously. The outdoor staging in Taoyuan is significant because the area contains communities formed through industrial employment and internal movement. The production complicates a strict division between international migration and mobility within Taiwan, it asks how labour economies repeatedly reorganise where people are able to live while cultural practices continue to travel with them.
Source: Taoyuan Arts Facilities Management Center, official production listing: https://www.afmc.gov.tw/Activity_detail/b670c8d4cbf2400aaabac8cce401e38c?end=2026%2F10%2F05&sta rt=2026%2F04%2F04 Performing Arts Reviews, production review: https://pareviews.ncafroc.org.tw/comments/2ad72a45-3211-4e15-8d92-1af9f49f52d5 Japan