refiguring 計畫 2：五種回應的姿態｜Refiguring 2: Five Faces
2025

refiguring 2: Five Faces is a work developed by choreographer Ning Wang in collaboration with five dancers. Centered on the fluidity of the female body under the gaze and beauty standards, the work takes roles such as woman, daughter, mother, and dancer as its starting point. It examines how social expectations shape bodily gestures, actions, and self-perception, and how the female body continues to form different images and expressions of subjectivity within these established frameworks.

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Presented in a white-cube gallery space, the work invites audiences to move freely and observe the dancers from different distances and angles, while exchanging gazes with the performers. As viewing positions and perspectives shift, the work reveals the gaze as a process shaped by power and the construction of bodily images. Audiences are invited to reflect on their own positions as viewers and on how the act of looking shapes the meanings attached to the body.

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The five dancers work with extremely slow, subtle, and non-linear movement patterns. Through repetition, inversion, expansion, and connection, their gestures continually shift between fixation and fluidity. While expressing individual differences, their movements also bring shared bodily experiences into relation, revealing the female body's potential for ongoing change and reconfiguration.

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The work was nominated for the 24th Taishin Arts Award in 2025.

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《refiguring 計畫 #2：五種回應的姿態》由編舞家王甯與五位舞者共同發展，以女性身體在凝視與審美機制下的流動性為核心。作品從女性、女兒、母親與舞者等角色出發，探問社會期待如何形塑身體的姿態、行動與自我認知，以及女性身體如何在既定框架中持續生成不同的形象與主體性。

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作品於展覽式白盒子空間呈現，觀眾可自由移動，從不同距離與角度觀看舞者，並與表演者交換視線。透過觀看位置與視角的變化，作品將凝視視為涉及權力與身體形象建構的過程，使觀眾感知自身的位置，以及觀看如何參與身體意義的形成。

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五位舞者以極慢速、細緻且非線性敘事的身體狀態，透過重複、翻轉、擴張與連結，使姿態在固定與鬆動之間持續轉換，在展現個體差異的同時，也讓相似的身體經驗得以交織與共享，呈現女性身體持續變化與重新組構的可能。

 

此作於 2025 年獲第 24 屆「台新藝術獎」季提名。