Huai-Wen Chang

Huai-Wen Chang is a dance artist from Taiwan, her practice involves facilitating, making, and performing. She is a current PhD student in Dance Studies at Middlesex University but based in Leicester. Her ongoing project explores ‘unmediated’ movement in dance informed by selected Buddhist concepts through improvised dance practice. This practice is part of an embodied inquiry into the practice of being unmediated. Being unmediated might be described as the sense of being freed from the egoistic self while dancing. It requires space for waiting and attending to awareness, enabling exploration to unfold to be with the ‘not-yet,’ as the source of her practice to dance.   Huai-Wen’s classes encourage self-reflection and self-cultivation, drawing on Western developments and reinforcing influences that stemmed from learning experiences in her dance education in Taiwan and the UK. The techniques included the use of meditation and martial arts practices by producing poise, flow, and the quiet intensity of meditative practices. The classes hope to open opportunities to explore bodymind with a heightened awareness.