Taiwan International Festival of Arts to be held from February till May

Taiwan International Festival of Arts to be held from February till May

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The 2025 Taiwan International Festival of Arts will be held in Taipei from February till May. Some 118 performances from Taiwan and abroad will be featured. What are some highlights of this year’s festival? FTV reporter Stephany Yang takes us in for a preview.

This is a performance produced by SiyuLand Project, integrating drum kit, piano and sitar, plus lead vocals.

Indian musician Akash Dubey will play the tabla, a pair of traditional Indian hand drums. The performance seeks to promote peace and love.

Akash Dubey
Drummer
Indian drums have a long history. My drum is about thousdands of years old. Sitar and tabla is a very good combination. It is a very traditional instrument plus we are trying to make it a fusion style because we want to bring something different flavor.

Uz AZeR
Lead singer
Making any art or music is for world peace, for fusion people, and everything. I think the message is love and peace for me.

A total of 118 performances will be on show, with performance groups and artists hailing from Taiwan, France, Austria, Portugal, Italy, Switzerland, Latvia, Hungary, United Kingdom, Sweden, Peru, and more.

Liu Yi-ruu
NTCH artistic director
There are some programs that cannot be missed. First of all, we have invited a world-famous street dancer and choreographer, Bintou Dembele. She will bring the street dance performance here. The name of the program is “G.R.O.O.V.E.” We will explore different venues or spaces in our theater. There is also a theater company from Peru that brought their version of “Hamlet.” The shakspeare. The special thing about this program is that all the eight actors on stage all have Down syndrome. That makes this theater especially touching.

The 2025 Taiwan International Festival of Arts will run from Feb. 21 till May 18 in the coming year.

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2025年台灣國際藝術節 2-5月登場精彩重點一次看

2024-12-18

2025年台灣國際藝術節將於2月至5月在台北舉行，推出共118場演出。今年的音樂節有哪些亮點，一起來看看!

「西尤島計劃」的演出，融合爵士鼓、鋼琴，及西塔琴手兼主唱，在舞台上帶來更深邃的音樂風景。

印度音樂家艾凱旭・杜貝將演奏傳統印度手鼓”塔布拉鼓”，表演希望能促進和平和愛。

[[塔布拉鼓手艾凱旭・杜貝]]
"印度鼓有著悠久的歷史。我的鼓已經有幾千年的歷史了。西塔琴和塔布拉鼓是一個非常好的組合。這是一種非常傳統的樂器，我們努力融合他們的風格，想帶來一些不同的感覺”

[[西塔琴手兼主唱吳欣澤]]
"任何藝術或音樂的創作，都是為了世界和平，為了融合人民，以及一切。我要傳遞的是愛與和平。"

主辦單位邀請包含台灣、法國、奧地利、葡萄牙、義大利、瑞士、拉脫維亞、匈牙利、英國、瑞典、秘魯等世界各國頂尖藝術創作者，帶來共118場演出。

[[國家兩廳院藝術總監劉怡汝]]
“有些節目是不能錯過的。首先，我們邀請了世界知名的街舞家、編舞家，賓杜．登貝雷，她將把街舞表演帶到這裡，《流 _G.R.O.O.V.E.》，將大家探索劇院中的不同場地或空間。還有來自秘魯的劇團，帶來了他們版本的莎士比亞《哈姆雷特》，這個節目的特別之處在於，舞台上的八位演員都患有唐氏症，使得這個劇院特別感人”

2025台灣國際藝術節將於明年2月21日至5月18日舉行。

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