Nanako Matsumoto & Anchi Lin (Chiwas Tahos) "Sticky Hands, Slick Mountains" Taipei Performance

Name of the organization or individual

Team Chipro

subsidy category

Tokyo Arts and Culture Promotion Subsidy

Grant Type

single year

FY 2025 Phase 1 Tokyo Arts and Culture Promotion Subsidy Category I (Single Year Subsidy) Creative Arts Activities

Taipei Arts Festival, 2025 Photo by Grace Lin

Taipei Arts Festival, 2025 Photo by Grace Lin

Taipei Arts Festival, 2025 Photo by Grace Lin

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Business Overview

This project expands on the collaborative performance work "Sticky hands, wet mountains" which was premiered at KYOTO EXPERIMENT 2024 in 2024 by Nanako Matsumoto and Anti Lin, and performed at the Taipei Performing Arts Center from September 12, 2025 to 14 as part of the Taipei Arts Festival.
Matsumoto's "Yokai Body" method, which constructs text and choreography based on painstaking research, and Lin's queer approach, which explores cultural and gender identity, combine to stitch an oral story into a space and create a transnational "shared mountain.".
For the revival, musicians and illuminators from Taipei participated in 10 days of rehearsals at TPAC. From this time on, Anti used the recorded Tairya language and performances, while Matsumoto chose to narrate in Japanese a newly written folktale text about female laborers in pre-war Japan.

implementation period

Sunday, Friday, September 12, 2025, -14

Place of implementation

Taipei Performing Arts Center (Taipei)

Profile

[Team Chipro]
Performance unit. Formed in 2013. He has worked on the theme of criticality of body and gesture. They form teams for each work and work on it.
In recent years, she has been producing dance works that identify a step from a specific place and time in a city, and deal with the intersection of the multiple contexts evoked by that step and the performer's bodily sensations and memories. Matsumoto and Nishimoto jointly direct and compose the play.
His major works include 20 Century Project (2018-2019), Imperial Palace Running Man (2019, 2020), Kyoto Imaginary Waltz (KYOTO EXPERIMENT 2021 AUTUMN, 2021), Nyonin Shiko Dance (KYOTO EXPERIMENT 2022, 2022), and nanako by nanako (2024).