TAIFUN: Somethings Last a Long Time 刻印 & HOME-家

Makers	Hiro Murata & Bai Li Wiegmans
Duration	55 min
Part of	TAIFUN

This evening brings together two personal and poetic works in which memory, identity, and the body take centre stage.

Somethings Last a Long Time 刻印, a trio by Hiro Murata, explores the body as an endless archive of traces and memories. Small moments—a touch, a glance, a feeling—can lodge within us and endure long after they have passed.

In HOME-家, Bai Li takes the audience on an autobiographical journey through a short dance film and solo, reflecting on her experience as a Chinese adoptee. In an intimate and vulnerable search for connection, she explores the emotions surrounding adoption, identity, and the feeling of living between worlds.

Makers

Hiro Murata 🇯🇵

Hiro Murata (b. 1997) is a dancer and choreographer from Kanagawa, Japan. He trained in ballet, contemporary dance, hip-hop, and jazz in Japan. In 2018, he moved to Europe and began working as a dancer with Conny Janssen Danst. He has recently collaborated with artists including Conny Janssen, Astrid Boons, Jason Mabana, and Dalton Jansen.

“False Memories” is his most recent work, created and performed in collaboration with Tú Hoàng. The piece won first prize at both Masdanza and the International Choreography Competition Hannover. He has also created the works “A Silent Rattle” and “Flawsome” for Conny Janssen Danst. His piece “UKA” won second prize at the 2019 Netherlands Choreography Competition, and “Longing” placed fourth in the contemporary dance category at the Japan Grand Prix.

Bai Li Wiegmans 🇨🇳

Bai Li (b. 1998) was born in China and grew up in the Netherlands, where she was adopted at the age of one. She discovered her love of movement early, while in an orphanage, and began ballet at the age of three. She soon expanded her training to include jazz, contemporary, and hip-hop, nurturing her passion for dance alongside her school studies.

At 16, she joined the pre-professional programme at the Fontys Academy of Fine and Performing Arts and graduated in 2019 with a Bachelor in Contemporary Urban. Her professional career began with the African company ACE. After returning to the Netherlands, she has worked as a freelance dancer and choreographer, both nationally and internationally, collaborating with companies such as Korea National Contemporary Dance Company, National Centre for the Performing Arts, Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, and Het Nationale Theater.