Keep In Touch

“The new generation of circus artists that creates innovation for contemporary circus”

“This is a new kind of circus performance. It has the traditional viewer-performer relationship: The performers challenge the body’s physical limits and laws of physics with such a degree of virtuosity that pulls the audience in and elicits their continual praise.”

—— HSU Ren-Hao / Reviewing Performing Arts Taiwan

Keep in Touch! leads the audience into a world between the real and the virtual.

A Look at the Human-Tech Connection and Finding Psychological Boundaries Where the Real and Virtual Intersect

Arcs and lines interweave and are cut, joined, and restructured to produce a wild sense of conflict. Relationships face disorder, breakdown, and collapse.

Through the laws of physics, we exhibit the weight of connection, the establishment of all kinds of relationships, whether they be interpersonal or with places and sounds. We find moments to pause within regularity.

Precarious elevated acts which surpass anything that happens on the ground. The spirit, affected by our environment, limits and changes the body, but an unknown power comes about when the human body interacts with a piece of equipment.

Keep in Touch! is a circus show that jumps back and forth between the real and the virtual. This narrative on kinetic energy and the body is embellished with thrilling and exciting circus feats integrated into a never-before-seen giant arc shaped prop, contemporary dance, and variety acts. It discusses methods of connection in a time of changes caused by technology and, as social relationships become increasingly estranged despite being brought “closer” by such technology, how to regain a hold over the self, which has been led astray by the digital wave and the information explosion.

This unique, richly poetic expression of circus art seeks to awaken people’s consciousness for real life. Performers stand atop a two-meter-high and three-meter-wide half-circle shaped prop, displaying their acute sense of balance and capacity to move effortlessly, echoing the delicate relationship between technology and the human body. The performers counter-balance each other, just as we try to find balance between the real and virtual worlds. In the big-data era, we have no choice but to face, continually consider, and discuss the boundary between the two.

Through this piece, we also explore the balance and relationship between traditional and contemporary circus art. The contemporary is who we are now, and we create dialogue with the future based on the trajectory of the past, a memory that serves as the start of a story and as we generate a wealth of power for the future of Taiwan’s contemporary circus arts.