Unfinished Island Songs
May 8-10 at Wirtz Center, Chicago, Abbott Hall
(710 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60611, USA)
We are currently raising $8,000 through crowdfunding to cover the basic production expenses.
Your contribution helps make this production possible and meaningful.
Unfinished Island Songs is a dance-theatre piece that explores the complex experiences of Taiwanese immigrants.
Home is no longer a place, but a living question—
a quiet collision between memory, struggle, and belonging,
shaped by loss and resilience,
by bodies that stumble, adapt, and love.
Can belonging take root
through partnership, community,
and the choice to stay?
"Dance: a healing rhythm, a hopeful stride, a defiant leap against the quiet of the night. "
或許身為台灣移民，
Perhaps as Taiwanese immigrants,
即使成了故鄉的異鄉人，
even when we become strangers to our homeland,
那些刻在身上的痕跡，
the marks etched into us
仍在血液裡流動。
still flow in our blood.
在變動中，
Amid constant change,
我們低聲傳承著
we whisper our legacy,
記憶....
our memories.
2026 Unfinished Island Songs Credit
Project leader/Co-producer/Performer.................................... 程之柔 (Chih-Jou Cheng)
Art Director/Costume Designer/Co-producer.................................... 柯詠心(Gin Yung-Hsin Ko)
SM/PM/Co-producer.................................... 李逸山(Luc Lee)
Collaborate artist/Performer............................... 林芷嫻 (Chih-Hsien Lin)
Composers.................................. 蘇妤涵(Miranda Su)
Set Technical Designer................................. 洪佩妤(Pei-Yu Hung)
Video Editor................................. 黃詩詠(Blake Huang)
Lighting Designer................................. Seojung Jang
Asst SM/PM................................. Wisdom Murray
Development was supported by
2023 Bridge Dance Festival
The Bridge Dance Festival began in 2018 as the culmination of four years of Japanese-focused programming at Links Hall, including the National Performance Network Asian Exchange, Beyond the Box, and Links to Japan.
In 2019, producers Links Hall and Asian Improv aRts Midwest partnered with curator Yoshinojo Fujima (aka Rika Lin) to maintain the mission of international cultural exchange and connection in the face of rising US nationalism and its aggressive political reality. The importance of global connections is inspired and supported by mutual respect for both cultural similarities and differences.
Now in its fifth year, Bridge Dance continues to establish its role facilitating AAPI Dancers from Chicago, Japan, and Taiwan will present their own new experimental pieces, exploring the expression of ‘self’.
Featured Artists:
Chih-Jou Cheng/程之柔
Robyn Mineko Williams
Momoko Ishikuro / 石黒桃子
Credit
Bridge Dance Fest Producer................... Links Hall and Asian Improv aRts Midwest
Bridge Dance Fest Curator...............................Yoshinojo Fujima (aka Rika Lin)
Project leader..................................... 程之柔 (Chih-Jou Cheng)
Dancers...............................林芷嫻 (Chih-Hsien Lin) & 程之柔 (Chih-Jou Cheng)