Exchange Program for CC & Taipei Artist Village Secured

Professor Yunyu Wang in Drama and Dance Department secured an exchange program for Colorado College and Taipei Artist Village, Taiwan. The program allows the artists or art scholars of Colorado College to travel to Taiwan and be hosted in the Village from two weeks to up to three months.

The Village, sponsored by the Culture Bureau of Taipei City Government, provides the access for the visiting artists to be able to work, display and to interact with the locals, as well as, the artists and scholars from other courtiers around the world. The Drama and Dance Department has hosted three dance artists since 2003 to be in Colorado College and have sent one member there this year.

The upcoming visitor will be Jack Sun, a choreographer, performer and teacher of dance. Jack will choreograph a dance, performed in the faculty concert, and be active in the department teaching and enjoying the campus activities from 5th to 6th block. For more information please visit the Taipei Artist Village website at www.artistvillage.org (in English and Chinese).

Yunyu’s web page is located at http://faculty1.coloradocollege.edu/~ywang/yunyu1

Professor Yunyu Wang, from the Drama/Dance Department, is the principal investigator for a 3-year $1.5 million grant ($450,000 the first year) from the Economic Ministry of the Taiwan government. She will run a project using Laban Movement Analysis (LMA), leading a group of 20 computer programmers and 10 artists and administrators. Yunyu is a Certified Laban Movement Analyst. LMA will be the major tool in the project to decode human movement and systemize it into a computer software program. The computer program would be able to:

  1. Eliminate the complicate process of creating animation by making the character’s action behave as real human beings
  2. Improve the quality of the rehabilitation especially for elders
  3. Enrich the performing arts by giving all possibilities for the choreographers.

Yunyu will present the project at a conference at Colorado College in 2007.