Taiwan Traditional Theatre Festival to kick off in March

The Taiwan Traditional Theatre Festival is the center’s first own-brand festival

Taiwan News 
Date: 2018/01/10
By: Maggie Huang, Taiwan News, Staff Reporter

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) –The Taiwan Traditional Theatre Center (TTTC) has announced the first Taiwan Traditional Theatre Festival, which will run from March to May, featuring traditional performing arts.

TTTC Director Wu Rung-Shun noted at a press conference on Wednesday that the Taiwan Traditional Theatre Festival is the center’s first own-brand festival, which is planned to be an annual event in the future. The festival will showcase Taiwan’s traditional performances in three main themes: traditional performing of Taiwan, traditional performing of the world, and traditional performing of the future.

The festival aims not only to interpret the uniqueness of Taiwanese traditional performing arts, but also to reveal the arts’ unlimited possibilities of renovation and collaboration with other art forms. Besides domestic traditional performances, the TTTC will also invite traditional performing troupes from around the world to stage their signature performances. This year, a special troupe from Korea will bring Taiwanese audience the country’s traditional performing art known as talchum or t’alch’um, a Korean dance performed while wearing a mask, miming, speaking and even sometimes singing.    [FULL  STORY]