14 發光的城市 A R O U N D T O W N FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2008 • TAIPEI TIMES

ong Kong director Mathias Woo (胡恩 Louis Kahn exerted considerable influence 威) has some pretty definite ideas about on 20th century architecture. One of Kahn’s contemporary performance art. approaches to space was to allow buildings to On the current training of theater blend in with the setting, rather than the other Hprofessionals: archaic. On Robert Wilson’s I La way around. It is a philosophy that Woo applies to Galigo: multicultural trash. On Hong Kong’s the stage. cultural landscape: largely barren. On Asian art “The space influences the set, not the other way festivals like the one that brought him to Taiwan: around. Typically, in a more traditional performance, too preoccupied with establishing a name for the set will not change from venue to venue … But themselves on the international theater map. this work is very interesting because it can adapt to While Woo might be accused of biting the hand different environments — it’s not fixed.” that feeds him, there is no doubt that his Woo originally envisioned the work as Above, Tiffany Hsu is playing it safe with Ethan Ruan. approach to theater has garnered plenty a multimedia-musical work with musicians Below, Coco Chiang is helping make the bronzed look of attention both in Asia and overseas. replacing actors on the stage. more popular in Taiwan. Photos: Taipei Times His much anticipated The Life and “When we were developing the music we chose Times of Louis I. Kahn debuts a jazz concert format, with a little classical thrown than Ruan (阮經天) and seems to have turned to tonight at Taipei’s Zhongshan Hall. in because we feel that Kahn is both serious and Tiffany Hsu (許瑋甯) are the abundantly endowed All three performances have sold out. classical but on the other hand he talks about joy E an on-again off-again lingerie model Wang Yu-fei “The training of performing and playfulness,” he said. couple that people just (王毓菲), better known as artists and performing technicians After reviewing the sound recordings of love to talk about, probably Hsiung Hsiung (熊熊). For are still in the middle ages and there Kahn’s lectures, however, Woo added an actor because Ruan always seem the record, Wang is said to is no platform for experimentation — played by Hong Kong television celebrity Kam on the verge of going off the have a 32F cup-size, and in formal institutions,” he said in an Kwok Leung (甘國亮) — who speaks lines culled rails with yet another bimbo. Next magazine suggests interview with the Taipei Times. from Kahn’s lectures and notes. As such, the The couple were spotted that this is more than “(Whereas) the conventional concept of work is as much a lecture by and about Kahn as by Apple Daily down in sufficient reason for Chen’s theater focuses on human beings on stage, it is a multimedia performance investigating the Kenting last weekend, change of heart. Wang is I’m very interested in non-narrative dramatic relationship between space, light and sound. and while they continue said to be generous with structure. It could be presenting different Although Hong Kong’s money-is-god ethos is a to strenuously deny that her charms, and according ideas; it could be a lecture; it could be a stumbling block to creating a vibrant performance they are together, Hsu was to Next she is a well-known discussion on a specific topic. Multimedia art scene, Woo says the very fact that it lacks sporting a contraceptive presence on the Internet, technology allows us to create a new form an institutionalized establishment allows for patch with her black bikini, appearing in various that is an interaction between images and considerable experimentation. which had the expected photo sites. A delightful space and light and sound.” “Hong Kong [is] in a unique situation because effect of whipping up image of Wang holding a With The Life and Times of Louis I. high art is not very strong, unlike the [US] and media curiosity, and the NT$50 piece between her Kahn, Woo uses a lecture format in a mul- Europe. In Hong Kong, anything goes,” he said. two where tracked down pendulous protuberances, timedia setting infused with jazz and clas- The Life and Times of Louis I. Kahn will be to a guesthouse they one of many images on Philosophy sical music played live by two musicians. performed at Zhongshan Hall (台北市中山堂), 98 were sharing. Apple Daily www.g-years.com, a Web Yenping S Rd, Taipei City (台北市延平南路98號), thought this shockingly forum, is recommended for Mathias Woo’s The Life and Times of Louis I. Kahn is a tonight and tomorrow at 7:30pm and tomorrow inconsiderate behavior on anyone who shares Next multimedia panegyric to the work and philosophy of 20th at 2:30pm. the part of Ruan and Hsu, magazine’s breast fixation. century architect Louis I. Kahn. Photos courtesy of Taipei Arts Festival — Noah Buchan especially when they try Carrying on the theme gets the drama so hard to avoid the media of the body beautiful, Coco spotlight in Taipei. The Chiang’s (蔣怡) success in fashionable pair also got the basketball romance their stories in a muddle Hot Shot (籃球火) is helping Top Five Mandarin AlbumS Aug. 22 to Aug. 28 when questioned by the make the bronzed look treatment media after taking to the more popular in white 梁靜茹 今天情人節 stage this week at Paul skin-obsessed Taiwan. Dark 1 Fish Leong ( ) and Today is Valentine’s Day ( ) with 17.62 percent of sales Smith and Ferragamo skin began to register on catwalk shows. This all the style charts with the 2 Aska Yang (楊宗緯) and Star! Start! Live Concert (星空傳奇) with 10.9% seems rather disingenuous appearance of Guatemalan- 蕭敬騰 蕭敬騰 given Ruan’s reputation and Taiwanese model Liz 3 Jam Hsiao ( ) and Jam Hsiao ( ) with 7.29% his long association with Yang’s (楊莉思) and her Hsu, but the Apple Daily is involvement with singer 4 Kan Kan (康康) and Grey, the Sequal (灰色．續曲) with 6.69% relentless, to misquote the David Tao (陶吉吉), and is Air Supply song, in “making being reinforced by the Nicky Lee (李玖哲) and No, Perfect (不，完美) with 3.36% news out of nothing at all.” relentless barrage of images 5 Album chart compiled from G-Music (www.g-music.com.tw), based on retail sales Chen Chu-he (陳楚河), a of Janet Hsieh (謝怡芬), host co-star with Ruan on the of Fun Taiwan, whose hit TV series To Love You career has blossomed Is My Destiny (命中注定我 recently following her [ EVENTS & ENTERTAINMENT ] 愛你), is also keeping the romance with her manager paparazzi busy at all hours Li Ching-bai (李景白). Tonight, tomorrow and Sunday at Wind, Feeling Bassoon Concerto (低音 scheduled for tomorrow evening, (女巫店), followed by a solo acoustic of the night. Chen has been While Pop Stop is sure 7:30pm 管協奏曲《風，情》) by Shi Chieh- but Sunday features the second performance by Rukai singer and getting plenty of coverage that the spike in Hsieh’s Theater NT$350 tickets are available by yung (史擷詠). installment of Come Together, guitarist Gelresai (陳世川) of Echo for his recent, tempestuous exposure it due totally to A family falls apart after the death calling (09) 2731-6048 Sunday at 3:30pm (Hsinchu) and Change — Who Are You? (合體!變 GS (艾可菊斯). Tomorrow folk singer liaison with Ella Chen (陳嘉 natural talent, there are of the family matriarch in Short One Wednesday at 7:30pm (Taipei) 身!Who Are You?), an eclectic lineup Huang Chien-wei (黃建為) takes 樺) of the girl-group S.H.E, others in the entertainment Player Theater Troupe’s (三缺一劇團) Formosa (島上) is a narrative-driven Hsinchu Municipal Auditorium (新 consisting of punk band Random (隨 to the stage. Jazzy/bluesy act Kukao but now his attention industry who seem less latest work An Obituary Written play that examines the enormous 竹市文化局演藝廳), 17, Tungta Rd Sec 性), pop-rockers Lumei (露魅), hip- (鼓號大樂隊) plays on Thursday. coy about getting a little by Everybody (大家一起寫訃文). sociopolitical changes that have 2, Hsinchu City (新竹市東大路二段 hop group Living Force (存活勢力), 7, Ln 56, Xinsheng S Rd Sec 3, Taipei help from a friend. Little Crown Art Center Theater (皇冠小劇 occurred on Taiwan over the past 30 17號); National Concert Hall, Taipei and hard-rock band Rule Yell (如意). City (台北市新生南路三段56巷7號). For Pan-pan (小潘潘) has been 場), B1, 50, Ln 120, Dunhua N Rd, years through the a love story that City B1, 200, Roosevelt Rd Sec 4, Taipei more information, call (02) 2362-5494 having something of a rough Taipei (台北市敦化北路120巷50號B1) tells of a political prisoner, named Tickets are NT$200 to NT$500, City (台北市羅斯福路四段200號B1). or visit www.witchhouse.org time recently, what with Tonight, tomorrow and Thursday at Peter, who when released becomes a available through NTCH ticketing Call (02) 2930-0162 or log on at www. Performances start at 9:30pm. getting busted for drugs 7:30pm and tomorrow and Sunday at politician, and Marilyn, the woman he the-wall.com.tw for more information Restaurant/bar with queer/feminist last November — she was 2:30pm adores. But Peter will eventually have The Sensuous Painting and 8pm tonight, 7:30pm on Sunday bookstore and large collection of cleared but her name got Tickets are NT$450, available to make a choice between Marilyn Chinese Music (NCO畫與樂 NT$450 tonight; NT$350 on Sunday board games open 11am to dragged through the mud through NTCH ticketing and the political ideas he has sworn — 丹青樂響 林谷芳與臺灣國家國樂 midnight Sundays through — then the show she was to uphold. 團) aims to combine the aesthet- Punk bands Random (隨性) and Wednesdays; 11am to 1am hosting, Videoland’s The Wu-Yi Wei-Ji (無以為繼) tells the Huashan Culture Park (華山創意文化 ics of classical Chinese painting Vanish appear tonight at Under- Thursdays through Saturdays Incredible World (不可思 story of a scriptwriter who, because 園區), 1, Bade Rd Sec 1, Taipei City (台 and traditional Chinese music. The world (地下社會). Japanese indie- NT$300 entrance includes one drink 議的世界) got the chop. To he lacks inspiration, plagiarizes the 北市八德路一段1號) compositions to be performed are all pop rockers Hasegawa Takashi console herself, she spent work of others to maintain his cre- Today at 2:30pm and 7:30pm and inspired by masterpieces of painting, (長谷川俊) and Quizmaster hit the Sam’s Jazz Quintet (蘇聖育爵士五 NT$200,000 at the plastic ative output. tomorrow at 2:30pm and 7:30pm and the bridge between painting and stage tomorrow night. On Wednes- 重奏) appears tonight at Riverside surgeons before the Somebody Cafe (貳拾陸巷), 2F, 131 Tickets are NT$300, available music will be made by scholar Lin day indie-electronica band Alluvial Cafe with a guest saxophonist. To- Lunar New Year, Xining S Rd, Taipei City (台北市西寧南 through NTCH ticketing Ku-fang (林谷芳). The orchestra will (阿路米爾) appears with noise band morrow night it’s alt-rockers Sorry and has now 路131號2樓) be conducted by Wen Yi-jen (溫以仁) Black Faith With Sonic Pace (黑色 Youth and post-rock band Sugar just moved Tomorrow and Sunday at 2:30pm The long-anticipated, Chinese-lan- and feature nankuan specialist Wang 信念跟隨著音速腳步). Plum Ferry (甜梅號). Performing into a new and Sunday at 8pm guage production of Shakespeare’s Xinxin (王心心). B1, 45 Shida Rd, Taipei City (台北市 on Sunday is low-key indie-rock apartment Tickets are NT$200, available Othello (針鋒對決) by the Godot Sunday at 7:30pm 師大路45號B1). Call (02) 2369-0103 or duo Zag Lope (柴可洛噗), followed costing nearly through NTCH ticketing Theater Company (果陀劇場) con- National Concert Hall, Taipei City visit www.upsaid.com/underworld by White Eyes (白目) a garage- NT$30 million. tinues, this week in Hsinchu, with Tickets are NT$400 to NT$1,000, for more information punk band that won the battle of Next magazine The Stronger is based on August headliners Li Li-qun (李立群) and available through NTCH ticketing Live shows go from 9:30pm to the bands at this year’s Ho-Hai-Yan suggests that it Strindberg’s play of the same name Chin Shih-jie (金士傑), two of Taiwan’s 11:30pm on Fridays and Saturdays, Rock Festival. is an endorsement which uses two nameless women most accomplished stage actors. Za Ondekoza (“demon drum and from 9pm to 11pm on Wednes- B1, 2, Ln 244, Roosevelt Rd Sec 3, contract from Q.T. Skin to investigate the nature of interper- Tomorrow and Sunday at 2:30pm group,” 鬼太鼓座) is back for yet days. The bar is open from 8pm daily Taipei City (台北市羅斯福路三段244巷 (六員環有限公司) owned by sonal relationships. and 7:30pm another tour of Taiwan in their ever and is closed on Mondays 2號B1), next to Taipower Building (台 “close friend” Yen Chien- Guling Street Theater (牯嶺街小劇 Hsinchu Municipal Performance popular program of percussion and Entrance tonight and tomorrow is 電大樓). Call (02) 2368-7310 or visit cheng (嚴健誠), that is 場), 2, Ln 5, Guling St, Taipei City (台北 Hall (新竹市立演藝廳), 17 Tungta Rd bare buttocks. Their Taipei show be- NT$300 tomorrow and includes one www.riverside.com.tw for more keeping the wolf from Little 市牯嶺街5巷2號) Sec 2, Hsinchu City (新竹市東大路二段 gins this Sunday, and they will go on drink; tickets on Wednesday are information Pan-pan’s door. Sunday at 2:30pm and 7:30pm 17號) to tour Jhongli, Chiayi and Kaohsiung NT$100 and do not include a drink Shows start at 9:00pm — Compiled by Ian Tickets are NT$250, available Tickets are NT$500 to NT$4,000, through September. NT$400 tonight and tomorrow, Bartholomew through NTCH ticketing available through TRCH ticketing or Sunday at 7pm Indie-folk duo UTA (屋塔樂團) NT$350 on Sunday; admission from Godot Theater Company at Jhongli Arts Center (中壢藝術館), 16 appears tonight at Witch House includes one free drink Ether Space by Shang Orientheatre www.godot.org.tw Jhungmei Rd, Jhongli City (中壢市中 (上默劇團) is a one-woman medita- 美路16號) tive exploration of Taoism and Zen Tickets are NT$800 to NT$2,500, Highlight Buddhism. Accompanied by two available through ERA ticketing Highlight musicians, the work seeks to recreate Classical World music group A Moving the existence of a hermit living close Forum Music Weekend Concert Legendary jazz pianist McCoy Sound teams up with DJ Shiuan to nature and incorporates the ele- Series — Hung Chia-hui Piano Tyner appears tonight at the Liu (劉軒) for two shows tomorrow ments of wind and water. Recital (十方樂集週末音樂會系列 Contemporary National Concert Hall as part of and Sunday at the Red House Taipei Artist Village (台北國際藝術 － 洪佳穗鋼琴獨奏會) sees local pia- It’s Jazz Your Mind tonight at the venue’s annual Summer Jazz as part of the 2008 Taipei Fringe 村), 7 Beiping E Rd, Taipei City (台北市 nist Hung Chia-hui (洪佳穗) perform Sappho de Base, Taipei’s favorite Party. Tyner rose to prominence Festival. The two acts will present World music group A Moving Sound 北平東路7號) a program that includes Beethoven’s late-night venue for impromptu jazz in the early 1960s as a member of “new compositions with an performs with DJ Shiuan Liu tomorrow Today, tomorrow and Sunday at Sonata No.14 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. sessions. Appearing tomorrow night the John Coltrane Quartet, which Pianist McCoy Tyner, who made a improvisation vibe and electronic and Sunday at the Red House Theater 7:30pm 27 “Moonlight”, Yi-Chen Tsai’s (蔡宜 is Texas blues band Black Sheep. released highly influential albums breakthrough in jazz as part of the John elements,” and audiences should as part of the 2008 Taipei Fringe Tickets are NT$400, available 真) Prayer (祈禱), Listz’s Hungarian On Tuesday night the Grace Jazz such as My Favorite Things and A Coltrane Quartet in the 1960s, appears come ready to dance. through NTCH ticketing Rhapsody No. 2 in C-Sharp Minor, and plays a set, with an open jam Love Supreme. Tyner’s percussive Festival. Photo courtesy of A Moving Sound Trio tonight at the National Concert Hall. A Moving Sound, which features the Schubert’s Sonata in B-Flat Major. afterwards. Wednesday features the approach and sophisticated chord photo by Gene Martin, Courtesy of McCoy Tyner distinctive vocals and improvised scene. He got his chops as a DJ The Story of the Tiger is a solo Tomorrow at 2:30pm Double J Band, and on Thursday work created a distinctive sound dance of Mia Hsieh (謝韻雅), is in New York City and then shook performance by actor-director Forum Auditorium (十方樂集音樂劇 it’s DJ Zulu, spinning what he calls that continues to influence jazz Joining Tyner tonight are bassist starting to gain prominence on the up Taiwan’s dance scene with Chongtham Jayanta Meetei and is 場演奏廳), 4, Ln 187, Minzu W Rd, “timeless and positive black sounds.” pianists today. In the 1970s, Tyner Gerald Cannon, drummer Eric international world music circuit. his unique fusion of Eastern and based on Dario Fo’s A Tale of a Tiger. Taipei City (台北市民族西路187巷4號) B1, 1, Ln 102, Anhe Rd Sec 1, Taipei continued to break new ground Kamau Gravatt, and special guest The group recently performed at Western elements. Red House Theater (西門紅樓), 10 Tickets are NT$250, available City (台北市安和路一段102巷1號B1). with his album Sahara, in which Christian Scott, an up-and-coming the Netherlands’ Dunya Festival and A Moving Sound and DJ Shiuan Chengdu Rd, Taipei City (台北市成都 through NTCH ticketing Call (02) 2700-5411 (after 9pm) or visit he explored both African and trumpeter from New Orleans. is gearing up for a 10-city tour next Liu at the Red House Theater (西門 路10號) www.sappho102.biz for more East Asian sounds. To date, the McCoy Tyner Trio with special year, which includes the Chicago 紅樓), 10 Chengdu Rd, Taipei City Tonight and tomorrow at 8pm 2008 Hsinchu Wind Orches- information 69-year-old has released nearly guest Christian Scott on trumpet at World Music Festival. (台北市成都路10號) as part of the Tickets are NT$350, available tra The Moon Romancing Performances begin at 10:30pm on 80 albums, five of which have the National Concert Hall (國家音樂 The group met rising star Shiuan 2008 Taipei Fringe Festival through NTCH ticketing (2008新竹交響管樂團音樂會 — 思 weekends, 10pm on weekdays earned Grammy Awards, and his 廳), 21-1 Zhongshan S Rd, Taipei Liu while participating in the Six Tomorrow at 3:30pm and Sunday 月) is a concert by the Hsinchu Wind No entrance fee recent work has included a Latin City (台北市中山南路21-1號) Degrees television series produced at 7:30pm Mint, Rosemary and the Flower Orchestra that features NSO principal album and arrangements for big Tonight at 7:30pm by Lonely Planet for the Discovery Tickets are NT$500; available at the With No Name investigates the violinist Wu Ting-yu (吳庭毓) and TSO Tonight at The Wall (這牆) there’s bands. In 2002 Tyner received Tickets are NT$600 to NT$3,000; Channel. Liu, a classically trained door, NTCH ticketing outlets and relationships between women and conductor Kuo Lien-chang (郭聯昌). an evening of Beatles-esque indie- the Jazz Master award from the available through NTCH ticketing musician, is known for his on-stage online at www.artsticket.com.tw focuses on a lesbian searching for They play a mixed program ranging pop from two Japanese acts, solo National Endowment for the Arts, or online at www.artsticket.com.tw charisma and his innovations in On the Net: www.amovingsound. love and meaning. from works commissioned especially artist Hasegawa Takashi (長谷川 the highest national honor for jazz On the Net: event.ntch.edu. Taiwan’s electronic dance music com; www.taipeifringe.org Nanhai Gallery (南海藝廊), 3, Ln 19, for the orchestra: The Moon Romanc- 俊) and the band Quizmaster. Also musicians in the US. tw/2008/JAZZ Chongqing S Rd Sec 2, Taipei City (台 ing Violin Concerto (小提琴協奏曲《思 appearing is Taipei’s own indie-rock 北市重慶南路二段19巷3號) 月》) by Weng Ching-hsi (翁清溪) and institution 1976. No shows are