refiguring 計畫 #1《從一個點出發，接著移動移動再移動》
2025

Refiguring is an ongoing choreographic research project initiated by Ning Wang. It is also her latest group dance work. The title responds to the word figure, referencing fixed images and bodily forms, and proposes instead a reconfiguration of representational norms—an exploration of bodily reconfiguration, transformation, and continuous becoming.

The project centers around two main conceptual threads. First, it reflects on the “male gaze,” examining how the female body has been viewed, objectified, and aestheticized in art history and media. It raises the question: how can the dancer, as a live performer, resist or escape this embedded visual regime? Second, it proposes a speculative bodily imagination through the idea of becoming a monster, drawing on mythological figures such as Chimera, Tiamat, and Medusa. These hybrid and wild bodies offer an entry point for exploring the suppressed, exiled, and unruly forces within the female body.

Current phases of the project unfold through improvisational movement experiments, video reflections, and verbal articulation. Together with her collaborators, Ning seeks to open up a field of bodily potential that crosses disciplinary boundaries and challenges normative systems of order and classification. 

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《refiguring 計畫》是王甯於 2025 年啟動的持續性創作研究，也是最新的群舞編創。計畫名稱回應字詞「figure」，這種相對被固化的形體狀態，藉此反思身體形象的建構機制。而 re-figur-ing，則企圖尋找一再重組、不斷生成的生命狀態，持續變形的身體可能。

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計畫聚焦兩條主要思考軸線：其⼀是對「男性凝視」的 反思，檢視女性身體如何在藝術史與媒體中被觀看、被物化，並提問演出現場的「舞者」該如何掙脫這套觀看機制︔其⼆則提出「成為怪物」身體想像，引⽤奇美拉（chimera）、鐵阿瑪（tiamat）、美杜莎（medusa）等 神話形象，擁抱混種與野性，探索女性身體裡被壓抑、驅逐的複雜⼒量。

 

此階段呈現形式包含即興式身體實驗、影像回顧與語⾔ 講述，王甯與團隊嘗試打開⼀種跨越秩序與分類的身體可能性。​