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Chou Kuan-Jou is based in Taipei, Taiwan, specializing in embodied creative practices, performance, movement design, and dance education. Kuan's work also extends into social advocacy, including sex volunteering with Hand Angels. Kuan has devoted time to the artistic practice of the "Erotic Body" employing the fluidity of sexuality as a strategy to reframe boundaries. Through practices centered on touch and bodily interaction, this approach expands into a dance-based dialogical space. The methods of practice include, but are not limited to, physical explorations, workshop sharing, and performance art.

Kuan’s work TOMATO received five-star reviews and The Bobby Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Later, Kuan was invited to perform at The Coronet Theatre in London and Melbourne Fringe, with the work described by The Guardian as “unique and full of potential.” In 2024, Kuan initiated the “Free Touch” practice; Kuan’s concept-derived work, Free Touch : Staging Presence, won the Best Work in Fringe  at the 2025 Taipei Fringe Festival.

Kuan has been invited to international events such as CND Camping 2019, Tanzmesse 2022, da:ns lab 2023 at Dance Nucleus, Perth Moves 2024, Transmission Impossible at Avignon Festival 2024, and Watch& Talk at Zürcher Theater Spektakel 2024.

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 周寬柔,臺灣台北人。從事身體創作、表演、動作設計與舞蹈教育相關工作,在社會倡議團體手天使中擔任義工。近年專注於「情慾身體」藝術實踐,以性流動作為鬆動邊界的策略,透過觸覺感知擴延出一個舞蹈性的對話空間。實踐方法包含但不僅限於生活實踐、身體練習、工作坊分享、行為與展演等。2022年作品《TOMATO》代表臺灣季至愛丁堡藝穗節演出,獲得五星好評與The Bobby Award殊榮,並受邀至倫敦皇冠劇院、墨爾本藝穗節演出,其作品被英國《衛報》形容為『獨特且充滿潛力』。2024年開始「Free Touch」藝術實踐,2025年其概念衍伸作品《Free Touch在(劇)場》獲得臺北藝穗節年度大獎。
 
曾受邀參訪巴黎CND Camping 2019、德國Tanzmesse 2022、新加坡Dance Nucleus da:ns lab 2023、西澳 STRUT Dance Perth Moves 2024、法國亞維儂藝術節 Transmission Impossible 2024 和瑞士蘇黎世劇場藝術節Watch&Talk 2024 等活動。曾與安娜琪舞蹈劇場、舞蹈空間舞團、驚喜製造、明日和合製作所、找我劇場、臺灣國樂團、臺北愛樂合唱團、許程崴舞蹈製作舞團、姊弟製作......等團隊合作演出,亦曾與Eisa Jocson、Venuri Perera、Iván Pérez、蘇品文、 鴻鴻、紀柏豪、李俐錦、陳乂......等藝術家合作。

 

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