Toad Mountain
Dancers: Miki Orihara, Ching-I Chang, Hui-Wang Zhang, Jie-Hung Connie Shiau
Rehearsal Director/Dramaturg: Nico Li
Composer: Jerome Begin
Costume Designer: Victoria Bek
Lighting Designer: Asami Morita
What parts of ourselves do we lock away in order to survive?
Through the lens of Taiwanese folklore, Toad Mountain explores the hidden interior spaces where we store memory, silence, instinct, and grief. The pieces of ourselves we preserve, protect or abandon in the name of self-preservation. Some of these choices are conscious. Others happen slowly, invisibly, over time.
Folklore has always been a vessel for the repressed and forgotten collective unconscious memory. Myths carry what societies cannot always speak aloud. In this process, one will return to those mythic landscapes not as nostalgia, but as mirrors. An attempt to uncover where we hide, what we bury, and what we might finally be ready to release and reconcile.
Toad Mountain was developed, in part, during a Baryshnikov Arts Center Residency.
Support for the development and presentation of this work is provided in part through the James and Martha Duffy Fund. All details subject to change.
Performance dates and times are listed as follows:
- December 11, 2026 at 7pm
- December 12, 2026 at 7pm