Tua-Tiu-Tiann International Festival of Arts Residency Dance Workshop

For the dance workshop, Thinkers' Studio invited resident artists at Dadaocheng to teach Southeast Asian participants about their own body languages and roles through voguing as well as explore the relationship between our bodies and role-playing through gender roles from the perspectives of community and participation.

In recent years, Thinkers' Studio has been spotlighting SEA communities in Taiwan such as the links between new immigrants, international students, and migrant workers, etc. The Studio attempts to increase participation in art events and explore more possibilities of connections through offering more art events. Thai artist–Phitthaya Phaefuang (aka SUN) –was invited to the Tua-Tiu-Tiann International Festival of Arts as an artist-in-residence to host vogue workshops for Southeast Asian residents and students in Taiwan. There were 11 participants of diverse nationalities such as Thai, Indonesian, Filipino, and Laos at the workshop. They explored body languages and gender roles unique to their national culture and ethnicity as well as their relationship with society. Sun also taught them basic voguing movements, allowing them to share their own life experiences and understand that any gender and ethnicity could be equally charming.