Sound & Theatre Performance

Double Steps tells a loose narrative in Taiwan of a daughter, a Mother, and a missing father.  Spanning from Japanese colonial period to the present time, the man becomes a Taiwanese imperial Japan serviceman, and can only meet her girl in his dream. He likes to watch her playing tennis with white dress. The war broke out, he didn’t know what to do, she wants him to leave Taiwan. While she still lives here with her daughter. Time passes, the daughter grows up, and find out the truth that her mother has kept secret for a long time.


This work starts with a "character". The character can be regarded as "someone who moves". The audience can rarely see the face of the character, but the appearance of the character provide clues to push the narrative forward. Characters are like those who still remain. This work uses sound to conceive maximum possibilities of space and imagination, creating a variety of “sites” to preserve memories and intermingling connections of the characters. Double Steps is narrated through a non-linear timeline or logic. It brings together traces of lives, intermingling life, moving sound and scattering “image”. When sound of human is not merely to speak or sing, if musical instruments are not only to play melody, and radios, record players as well as other sound device each has their own “voice”, all “sounding” possibilities will transform into a La Ronde. Seemingly a singular site (the black box theatre), will then allow imagination to expand and contract freely. Departing from daily activities of human being, and further continues into the emergence of illusion and awkward behaviours, Double Steps gather together multiple auditory senses, allowing different people (performers) to interpret the same song, as if song in variation forms.