19 October – 2 November 2026 

CHEN Pin-Ni explores the boundaries and transitions within street dance culture. After many years in the same city, she observes how the relationship between people and dance oscillates between restriction and openness, and how boundaries between dance styles, genders, and places emerge, shift, and are renegotiated.

In the street dance scene in southern Taiwan, she repeatedly encounters the concept of “dance purity”—the idea that a dance style should preserve a certain essence and that the body should not be overly influenced by other forms. At the same time, CHEN Pin-Ni experiences herself as a hybrid body: due to her diverse dance experiences, her dance is sometimes described by Taiwanese dancers as “European” and thus associated with a place where she has never lived.

She sees her trip to Dresden as an opportunity to explore these questions through concrete encounters with dancers from different cities and backgrounds. How is a body perceived that embodies multiple dance languages? How can people with different experiences come together in a shared space, see one another, influence one another, and learn from one another without being immediately categorized?

At the center of this is the body as the vessel of experience. Earlier dance influences do not disappear, but resurface in new movements and forms. CHEN Pin-Ni asks whether, in a different cultural context, hybridity in dance can be understood not as a deviation or a category, but as a possibility.