La XXX Punk is a series through which Fangas Nayaw searches for how Indigenous dance can be in the future. It will be different, and must be different, because we are fed up with how popular imagination of Indigenous dance is limited to certain selected highlights and images.
Every part of the La XXX Punk series starts with a manifesto. Betel Nut Green is the second part of the series.
The vivid underneath is quietly disappearing.
The land is hill green, tree green.
Green like the park. Green screen green.
MANIFESTO
- Non-nature is part of life.
- Climax is illusionary.
- Tradition is individual.
- Effortlessness is misleading.
- Bound flow movement releases the body.
- The aging body holds experience.
- Homogeneity is a myth.
- Culture lies every day.
- Disappearing happens quietly.
- Glitch is a gift.
Credits:
Choreographer : Fangas Nayaw
Scenographer : Liao Yin-Chiao
Performers : Naceku, maya’ a taboeh hayawan
Music : Yude Lin
Costume Designer : Yulin Fann
Dramaturg : Betty Yi-Chun Chen
Key Visual Designer : Hsiao Yang-Hsi
Key Visual Photographer : Etang Chen
Producer : River Lin
Production Manager : Ann Wu
Production : Fist & Cake Production
Supporters : The National Culture and Arts Foundation’s Performing Arts Abroad Program
Development : The National Culture and Arts Foundation’s Performing Arts Abroad program, 2025 Lyon Dance Biennale, RawGround 25/26, Dance Forum Taipei
Fangas Nayaw
Born in Taitung, Taiwan. Fangas is an artist, director, choreographer, and performer. His versatile practices probe into the dynamics of audience participation and the possibilities of new technology in the performing arts, while constantly reflecting on his indigenous identity and cultural tradition as Amis.