Two men, ten years later

Chen Wu-kang was born and raised in Taiwan. He began studying dance at the age of twelve and graduated from the Taiwan University of Arts. In 2001, Wu-kang danced with Ballet Tech and Peridance and became the soloist, starting his long-term collaboration with choreographer Eliot Feld. He was also the guest dancer in Diamond Project of New York City Ballet in 2006. 

In 2004, he co-founded HORSE as an artistic director. Some significant works include Velocity (2007), Bones (2008), 2 Men (2012) which toured in Asia, US and Europe. He started to collaborate with artists in different fields in 2011, including Exhibition X Performance Successor (2011), and curatorial project Dance X Sounds as well as seasonal improvisation platform Primal Chaos since 2016, a year where he also began an intercultural-dance dialogue with renowned Thai choreographer and performer Pichet Klunchun. Their work, Behalf, premiered in 2018 and toured in 2019. Meanwhile, they also worked on a three-year project, Rama House. Chen was also the stage director of The show must go on by Jérôme Bel in Taipei Art Festival in 2019, and co-created as well as performed in Dances for Wu-Kang Chen (2020). Chen is a recipient of the Taishin Performing Arts Award 2021.

Born in Kaohsiung, Su Wei-chia co-founded HORSE in 2004. His numerous choreographies and collaborations include the group-created work Velocity, a winner of the 6th Taishin Arts Awards, and the autobiographical 2 Men, a collaboration with Chen Wu-kang, which also won the 1st prize and Audience's Choice Award at the 2013 Kurt-Jooss-Preis.  

From 2009 to 2013, he was invited by Eliot Feld to join the Ballet Tech Dance Company in New York as a guest dancer. His ongoing FreeSteps project, launched in 2013, explores the relationship between contours, movements, characters, rhythm, music, and light; a performance at Les Hivernales - CDCN d'Avignon was described as “a succession of shocks that drive the imagination into obscure and delicious depths.” He was the Artist-in-Residence of the NTCH in 2016. In addition to continuous dancing and creation in recent years, he has also started to focus on his social responsibility as a dancer and sharing the joy of dancing everywhere. 

The visual identity of HORSE is a Chinese character made of three horses, indicating the strong motivation and explosive energy. Founded in December 2004, HORSE has established a distinctive profile with delicate physical movements and unrestricted creativities. In 2008, Velocity won the Taishin Arts Award Taiwan’s grand arts prize. In 2013, their work 2 Men won the 1st prize and Audience Award in Kurt Jooss Preis, PACT Zollverein, Essen, Germany.  

In recent years, Chen Wu-Kang, the artistic director, and Su Wei-Chia, the general director, have developed a unique art praxis. They continue to advance the company into the bright future, a period of metamorphism for them in the Taiwanese contemporary dance scene.  

HORSE is active in international collaboration, outreach programmes and curatorial projects. Their practice include the platforms Primal Chaos Dance x Sounds Improvisation, Back to the moment Dancing Talking Bar, a dance cinema in which creators and commentators have a live sharing, We Island Dance Festival and, Inclusive Arts Programme.

Note: The character骉 is pronounced as “biao”, refers to horses galloping in herd.