Dondon Hounwn’s script combines praying, traditional instrument playing, and ancient chanting in his script development, also performs the female self in portraying non-binary Hagay. Based on the script, Shu Lea Cheang eleborates on technological visual impact for the stage version.

From 2020 to 2022, the collaboration is joined by the Paiwan writer Ibau who writes elegant proses and lyrics about the burden of tradition; experimental film artist Tzu-An Wu works with digital-analogue filmic imageries, creating phantasmal forest walks and dreaming sequences;

laser artist aka_chang who displays totem with laser light, showing the ancestral spirits’ eyes, transmitting the tribes’ humanity, environment, and landscape. Vocal artist Shan Shan Chen of the Amis Tribe whose enchanting voices resonate with the calling from the spiritual world; music producer Sayun Chang mixes contemporary classical music, indigenous rhythms, improvisatory performances to enrich Truku traditional folk songs. The Say-siyat tribe dancer Shih-Min Szu leads 5 tribal youngsters in choreographing hagay’s encounter with the hunter and the forest dreaming sequences. Shih-Min further interprets the masculinity of Hagay with a solo dance.

A Elug Art Corner theatre work.
Produced by Dimension Plus
Funded by National Culture and Arts Foundation, Ministry of Culture, Taiwan

Producer: Ping Yi Chen
Project initiation and direction: Shu Lea Cheang
Artistic direction/ Direction/ Script: Dondon Hounwn
Choreographer and dancer: Shih-Min Szu
Vocal: Shan Shan Chen
Writer: Ibau
Laser: aka_chang
Experimental film: Tzuan Wu

Music producer: Sayun Chang Audio engineer: Shih Wei Liu Cellist: Jiro Yeh Violinist: Yu Hao Chang
Dancers: Apu’u Yakumangana, Tumun Buru, Umaw Nguzyok, Marang Kuwah, Pilaw Uraw
Costume: Big Book studio
Documentary film: Rngrang Hungul, Thalaelethe Titibu
Web designer: Kelvin Hoi