完美的即興

第21屆國家文藝獎得主──古名伸

時光挫、光陰過，人生舞台，幕起又幕落。星圖撒落，漫天交錯，驀然回首，了然於胸，在「接觸即興」中，頓悟上心頭。

古名伸，一位立志不下舞台的專業舞者和編舞者，美國伊利諾大學舞蹈系碩士，歷經國立台北藝術大學舞蹈系系主任、研究所所長、舞蹈學院院長等職，致力培育後進。

1993年成立「古舞團」，從事現代舞的創作及發表，演出足跡遍及台灣、香港、美國、澳洲、法國、英國及中國大陸等地。多年來積極推廣即興及「接觸即興」的舞蹈方式與觀念，是台灣唯一以「接觸即興」形式表演的專業藝術團體。

創辦「i·dance Taipei」國際愛跳舞即興節，定期與香港、韓國和日本舞者相互交流，透過「接觸即興」，讓台灣與世界接軌，奠定台灣在亞洲地區「接觸即興」舞蹈領域的重要地位。

 

Perfect Improvisation

Dancer Ku Ming-shen

Time glides on, and life’s curtain rises and falls, while the stars keep eternal watch in the heavens. A single backward glance makes everything clear. In contact improvisation, she has found enlightenment. 

Ku Ming-shen is a professional dancer and choreo­grapher who vows never to retire. She holds a master’s degree in dance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-­Champaign and has devoted herself to ­training young dancers, serving as dean of the School of Dance and chairwoman of the Graduate Institute and Department of Dance at Taipei National University of the Arts.

Ku & Dancers, founded in 1993 to choreograph and present modern dance, have performed in Taiwan, Hong Kong, the US, Australia, France, the UK, and mainland China. Over the years, they have been actively promoting the methods and concepts of impro­visa­tion and contact improvisation. They are the only professional dance group in Taiwan that is dedicated to contact improvisation.   

Ku & Dancers organize the “i·dance Taipei” festival, regularly engaging in creative exchanges with dancers from Hong Kong, South Korea, and Japan. Through contact improvisation, they have brought Taiwan into touch with the wider world and have helped establish the country’s prestige in this field of improvisational dance in Asia.