Live performance of works in English and Mandarin, 9th Annual International Taipei City Arts Festival, Forum Theater, Taipei Taiwan.

Open House was initiated by a series of commissions by Taiwanese percussionist Aiyun Hwang. When we began working, we were interested in creating a project situated between percussion and theater, pushing the limits of both, to explore multiple versions of similar experiences. When I was asked to come to Taipei to present 4 pieces from the series, I was excited by the possibility of recombining them into a single theatrical work.

Our original intention was to examine the domestic space with its political implications by employing games, musical theatricality, and personal narrative. Gender roles, division of labor, and behavior modification or training would be examined through the lens of musical theatricality.

What emerged in Open House however was a different story told with moving bodies. There are no singular characters that tell this story; rather, there are physical narratives haunted by a multitude of emotional states activated by rhythm. We only see characters in brief moments of embodied gestures often at odds with the texts they