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Taiwanese Indigenous Dance Collective Wins Taishin Arts Award

award · 2026-06-02

TAI Body Theatre, an Indigenous collective from Taiwan, has won the Taishin Arts Award, the country's top art prize, for a dance work confronting cultural erasure. The winning piece explores labour, migration, and lived histories through choreography and stomping rhythms. The award recognizes the collective's efforts to preserve and revitalize Indigenous cultural heritage through contemporary performance.

Key facts

  • TAI Body Theatre won Taiwan's top art prize, the Taishin Arts Award.
  • The winning dance work confronts cultural erasure.
  • The piece incorporates themes of labour, migration, and lived histories.
  • Choreography and stomping rhythms are central to the performance.
  • TAI Body Theatre is an Indigenous collective.
  • The award highlights the collective's work in preserving Indigenous culture.
  • The Taishin Arts Award is Taiwan's most prestigious art prize.
  • The work was performed in Taiwan.

Entities

Artists

  • TAI Body Theatre

Institutions

  • Taishin Arts Award

Locations

  • Taiwan

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