Production
Duration - 25 mins
Concept/Choreography/Dance - Po-Nien Wang
Producer - Ting-An Ying
Lighting - Sonoko Kamimura (Berlin 2024), Shu-Yi Chou (Taipei 2025)
Costume - Patrick King, Han-Yu Wu
Music - 出手（平調々子）DERUTE, 萬歳楽 MANZAIRAKU; Cloudbank - Julianna Barwick, Stabat Mater: I. Stabat mater dolorosa - Philippe Jaroussky, Julia Lezhneva, Ramiro Musotto & The Berimbau Modern Orchestra, The Host of Seraphim - Dead Can Dance
Tea Ceremony - Lin Wang (Berlin 2024)
Photography - Wai Kung, Pei-Yin Chen, Sonia Shao
Videography - Wai Kung (Berlin 2024)
Documentation Assistant - Jia-Ni Yu (Berlin 2024)
Sound - Tobias Goetz
Artistic Consultant - Shu-Yi Chou
Artistic Advisor (Research process) - Troels Primdahl
Administrative Assistant - Kai-Wen Chung
Backstage - Po-Han Hsu, Jenny Wang
Rehearsal Space sponsorship - TRAUMA BAR UND KINO (2023/2024)
Supported by
Ministry Culture of Taiwan (—> WANT TO DANCE FESTIVAL 2024)
National Cultural and Arts Foundation in Taiwan (—> International Exchange 2024)
Meet The Team :
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Concept, Choreography and Performance
Po-Nien Wang (he/him) is a Berlin-based dance artist.
A former member of Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan, Po-Nien was a soloist in Lin Hwai-Min’s “White Water” before moving to Berlin in 2018. He has performed multiple seasons at StaatsOper Unter den Linden in Berlin, and is a longtime guest dancer with company Le Supplici by Fabrizio Favale. He also worked as rehearsal director for Aakash Odedra Company’s “Samsara”, touring worldwide.
"Prelude to Mountain Ghost" is Po-Nien’s first ever self-founded project. The piece is rooted in his personal exploration of belonging, queerness, fluidity, and identity.
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Producer
Ting-An Ying (she/all pronouns) is a Han-Taiwanese artist, researcher, and facilitator based in Berlin. Her career started off as a professional dancer. Over the past decade, she has established a prolific presence through collaborations with numerous esteemed artists and institutions internationally.
Driven by a profound passion for dance, theatre, philosophy and politics, Ting-An’s work emphasises plurality, socio-political engagement, and is rooted in decolonial discourses. She navigates the intersections of body-centred creation and critical reflection. Ting-An actively facilitates events for marginalised communities, challenging institutional narratives to foster authentic self-actualisation and confronting internalised western hegemony.