TaiwanFest: Hope Talk presents Barefoot and in High Heels
Dance artist Lian Ho went to Spain to learn dance, and brought flamenco back to Taiwan. Today, she continues to cultivate and teach a flamenco dance original to Taiwan. Her daughter Hsueh Yu-Hsien followed the dance troupe from the mountains to the sea, and thus, another Spanish dance artist of Taiwan was born.
Lian Ho grew up in a time when the cultures of soldiers from the mainland and the rural girls of Taiwan began to merge. She once gave up the dream of learning dance in Spain in order to raise her children, and in another time, temporarily left her children for this dream. Her daughter Hsueh Yu-Hsien achieved outstanding performance for dance in Spain, but returned to Taiwan to bring arts education to the remote communities within the mountains. Then, upon winning the first place award in the Spanish international dance competition, Certamen de Coreografía de Danza Española y Flamenco, she returned to the Ballet Nacional de España. Although both of them embarked on the journey of dance, they each experienced different winding paths in life.
For dance, they put on high heels and travelled to Spain to show off their charm as dance artists; to soothe the hearts of the Indigenous people after devastating natural disasters and to give the children the courage to pursue their dreams, they brought flamenco to rural villages and danced barefoot on the land.
Two dance artists, Lian Ho and Yu-Hsien, will dialogue on the same stage at TAIWANfest, sharing the staccato rhythms of their life stories. Discover their courage and be inspired by their confidence as they fiercely and effortlessly command the spotlight in their solo dance on the stage of life.
Hsueh Yu-Hsien
Member of Ballet Nacional de España/ Flamenco Choreographer
Lian Ho
Flamenco Choreographer
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