14 發光的城市 A R O U N D T O W N FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2010 • TAIPEI TIMES BY DiaNE BAKer COMPILED BY DANCE STOP DAVid CHEN The god of small things arital strife was top of the pops this week on the gossip pages, and we begin with a Mtale of two CEOs, their glamorous wives and a pending divorce. PERFORMANCE noTES “Your wife is having an affair with my husband,” former Out of the frying pan and into the fire. WHAT: WCdance, Small Puzzles ( ) 洪曉蕾 supermodel Lei Hung ( ) was PHOTO: TAIPEI TIMES WHERE: Experimental Theater of the National reported to have said in a tearful, Theater (國家戲劇院實驗劇場) late night phone call to business- Kao when they married eight WHEN: Thursday to Sept. 25 at 7:30pm, Sept. 25 man Tung Chien-san (董建三). years ago. and Sept. 26 at 2:30pm Tung, the CEO of a raw On Who Has the Last Word ADMISSION: Tickets are NT$500, available at NTCH materials company, regaled the Tonight? (今晚誰當家), Tsai told box office or through www.artsticket.com.tw Apple Daily with details of how her interviewer that she tried ADDITIONAL PERFORMANCES: Oct. 23 at he found out his wife Carol Chien to commit suicide by cutting 7:30pm at Yilan Performance Hall (宜蘭演藝廳), 482, (錢德月) was carrying on an affair her wrists on two different Chungshan Rd Sec 2, Yilan City (宜蘭市中山路二段 with Huang’s husband Wang occasions since discovering her 482號); Oct. 30 at 7:30pm at National Taichung 王世均 Shih-chun ( ), the CEO of a then-husband had fallen for Chen Library Chungsing Concert Hall (台中市中興堂), jewelry company. Tzu-hsuan. 291-3 Jingwu Rd, Taichung City (台中市精武路291之 As Tung tells it, Huang Tsai was accompanied by her 3號); Nov. 17 at 7:30pm at Experimental Theater discovered the infidelity earlier twin sister Tsai Yu-chieh (蔡郁潔), of Chiayi Performance Arts Center (嘉義縣表演藝 this year after hearing his mobile who lobbed some verbal abuse 術中心實驗劇場 phone ring in the middle of night. Chen’s way, referring to her as ), 265, Jianguo Rd Sec 2, Minsyong Since Wang was passed out cold a “black mountain witch” and a Township, Chiayi County (嘉義縣民雄鄉建國路二 after a night of drinking, she “transvestite,” reported our sister 段265號); and Dec. 10 at 7:30pm at Kaohsiung looked through his text messages paper, The Liberty Times. Weiwuying Metropolitan Park (高雄衛武營藝術文化中 and stumbled upon some And in a strange and cruel 心281棟). Admission is NT$300 for Yilan and Chiayi incriminating conversations with twist, Tsai received flowers on shows, NT$350 for Taichung and Kaohsiung Chien, in which they referred to the set of the show from Kao, each other as “husband” (老公) and who had been contacted by a “wife” (老婆). journalist who told him about This appears to be yet another her wrist-slashing attempts. The suggested enlarging children’s blocks instead. dent in what began as a fairy- flowers came with a message You can see how the simplicity of the blocks’ tale marriage between Wang and from Kao: “A thousand faults, 10 shapes would appeal to Yao, whose background is in Huang, who gave up the catwalk thousand faults, all of this has photography and installation, not stage design. However, to be a housewife. Over the years, been my fault ... it is like my heart the pieces are so big that the dancers resemble ants, Lin rumors of domestic violence has been cut with a knife, too.” said, which is apropos since his first piece for WCdance, have dogged the couple — on Tsai responded in tears: “This Small (小), confined the dancers to a Plexiglas cube that more than one occasion Huang is the last set of flowers [I’ll ever resembled an ant farm. has been spotted in public with receive from him].” Lin is so low-tech that to work out the choreography bruises and scars, which she And here’s a marriage that for Small Puzzles he bought a wooden puzzle set from has always dismissed as having almost didn’t begin. The day Toys“R”Us and painted it white. resulted from accidents. before his wedding last Friday, “Everyday I would go home, play with the blocks and Tung has been alone in airing comedian Ma Kuo-pi (馬國畢) was then the next day we would go into the studio to try out everyone’s dirty laundry. When discovered standing in a daze in the moves,” he said. “Since we don’t have the space to be asked to respond to his story, front of his burning car on a road able to look down from above, and the set pieces are so Huang insisted that she and Wang near Yangmingshan in Taipei, heavy, it would just be a waste of energy to move them had no plans to get divorced, after a botched suicide attempt. without planning ahead.” saying that “Things are good now, The 35-year-old pulled his car The music was suggested by Lin’s mentor and former and I am very satisfied with this over to the side of the road, lit a boss, Bill T. Jones: Johann Sebastian Bach’s The Well- stage of our marriage.” charcoal grill in the backseat and Tempered Clavier. That’s not the case for Tung then loaded up on sleeping pills, “Two years ago I was choreographing a piece using and Chien, who are currently according to the Apple Daily. Tchaikovsky. Bill wrote a letter to say that when he negotiating a divorce settlement. What saved Ma’s life wasn’t the was driving he was listening to Bach and thought it was Tung took the opportunity to police, who arrived shortly after well suited for me. I thought ‘OK,’ but didn’t know when complain to Apple about Chien, receiving calls from the scene, I would use it. I’m afraid the audience will fall asleep who is asking for a settlement but his bladder. since the music is only one piano [and pianist Chen amounting to NT$200 million. Apparently nature called at Huei-yu (陳慧宇)], but I think the music can be enough,” For her part, Chien refused to just the right time, prompting Lin said. “Keep the music simple, the stage simple, the discuss the divorce and denied Ma to step out to take a leak just costumes simple. I haven’t used one-piece leotards since having an affair with Wang. “He’s before his car burst into flames. I was in college.” paranoid,” Chien said of her The Liberty Times reported The 70-minute performance (no intermission) is husband. “If I just talk to another that Ma often fought with his divided into four sections: The Window, The Figures and man, he gets upset — it’s a fiancee Hsieh Yi-chun (謝依純) Shadows, The Loop and The River of Time. misunderstanding.” and the two had just gotten into Lin uses the blocks and lighting to establish the area And then there’s the story an argument before he tried to for each section. that refuses to go away: The barbeque himself. “The Window is a game of negative space. We just use cram school teacher soap opera Hsieh, who arrived at the the interior space suggested by the form of a box, like involving school owner Kao Kuo- police station to pick him WCdance members begin a nationwide tour of their newest production, Small Puzzles, at the Experimental Theater in Taipei on Thursday. the windows of a building. In The Figures and Shadows, hua (高國華), his employee and up, seemed unfazed. She told PHOTO COURTESY OF WCDANCE the dancers hold the blocks so they become figures, like new flame Chen Tzu-hsuan (陳子 reporters that the wedding would ants or workers on the street,” he said. 璇) and his ex-wife, news anchor go on the next day, and it did. choreographer Lin Wen-chung’s (林文中) first two shows before going on the road next month. “The Loop is like a broken CD player; it’s the only Tsai Yu-hsuan (蔡郁璇). The next day saw the couple productions for his company WCdance (林文中舞團), Other choreographers may love computer imagery section where the music is repeated three times. The By all accounts, the drama presiding over a star-studded he made a virtue out of necessity, creating finely and multimedia magic, but not Lin. movement is circle, swing and repeat,” he said. “I think should be over — Kao officially banquet that included guests such Inhoned works set on a small number of dancers to be “My works are anti-technology,” Lin said with a laugh The River of Time is the one that people will find the divorced Tsai and has proclaimed as comedy bigwigs Jacky Wu (吳宗 performed in small venues. When you are just starting out, during an interview on Saturday last week. “The most easiest to understand — we build a boat, there’s a river, Chen as his “true love.” But Tsai 憲) and Hu Gua (胡瓜). you can’t afford to hire a lot of dancers or big venues and high-tech we get is putting a light in one of the small a storm that washes away the people, 12 blocks laid out remained in the spotlight earlier Dressed in a white tuxedo, a your sets have to be portable. pillars to make it look like a flashlight.” like a clock face.” this week with several talk show beaming Ma told reporters that No longer the new kid on the block, Lin has expanded His original idea had been to recycle the white “I’m still trying to use musicality as a way to connect appearances.