Hao Cheng’s mathematical background gives him a unique perspective on abstract ideas and flesh-and-blood performance. His highly personal and proudly low-tech solo for Incandescence Dance is a dynamic fusion of popular science and the poetry of motion. Featuring a blackboard-like surface and chalk as a means of charting Cheng’s ceaselessly nimble, fully-felt movement, his dance gradually transforms into a visual art installation. This original and elegantly-conceived film lends quantum physics and the uncertainty principle fresh meaning and a human face.

Incandescence Dance

Founded by Hao Cheng in New Taipei City. Incandescence Dance’s goal is to create a dance/theatre with scientific and mathematical thinking based on contemporary dance. They believe that the core pursuit of the scientific spirit, as well as art, comes from people’s curiosity about the world, and is also full of poetry. This kind of poetry is the root of all human actions. Behind every scientific concept, theorem and law, poetic metaphors and contrasts and hidden.

Incandescence Dance will not advance with the technological process, but with the humanistic meaning of scientific thinking as the main axis of creation, in the form of transformation, metaphor, etc., revealing the poetry of science and art, and the exploration and application of the body will never be absent. The proper integration of science, art, and body to produce unique styles of dance works and share them with everyone is the most determined goal of Incandescence Dance team.