Lost connection

Performance on ‘phubbing’ by Taiwanese dance company Seed Dance Company. Choreography: Wen-Jen Huang

Four faces pushed towards eachother — Photo: Lee Kun-yen 李昆晏

During a visit from Tainan University of Technology, Department of Dance, the Seed Dance Company is performing Lost Connection.

Lost connection is about the phenomenon of “phubbing”, which means paying more attention to your cell phone than the people you are with.

The company's artistic director and choreographer, Wen-Jen Huang, is also the Head of the Department of Dance at Tainan University of Technology.

Lost connection

Addicted to any mobile devices or maybe know others who are?

If so, Wen-Jen Huang's restlessly swift, hot-wired dance quartet should produce jolts of recognition. Her dynamic new work is based upon the contemporary socio-cultural phenomenon of phubbing (paying more attention to one's mobile, etc. than to the people you're with).

Reality jostles and juts up against tyrannical virtual reality in a stripped-down, heads-down examination of the great global disconnect. Guided by the choreographer's laser-like kinetic intelligence, the dancers slice and slide through space with a desperate, unpredictable energy.

Fair warning: their self-absorbed, pressure-cooked state of being could be both exciting and distressing. Who are these glassy-eyed beings? They are us!

SKH collaboration with Tainan University

At the end of the Dance and Choreography III course, the 2nd year Bachelor of Dance Education students meet and work with students from Tainan University of Technology, Department of Dance.

For three days, they share work based on choreographic projects. On the last day, the work ends with a presentation and workshops for invited high school students from the aesthetic programs: Stockholms Estetiska Gymnasium, Södra Latin and Viktor Rydberg.

In connection with this, the dance company Seed Dance Company performs its performance Lost Connection.