創作理念 · STATEMENT
她以為世界要靠她的每一步才能轉動。
舞王濕婆以一支舞維繫創造與消逝。她不是神，只是一位舞者，借來幾個意象：鼓聲化作腳下揚起的紅土，火環化作舞臺上的一圈燈，多重的身影交給兩盞燈投出的雙影。
空曠的排練廳裡只有呼吸。紅土庭院裡越跳越快，直到腳步變重。卸下紅衣走進鏡廊，每一面鏡子都有她，沒有一面替她回答。黑石臺上，她終於坐下，聽別人的鼓。
舞王的舞不能停；她學會的是，停下的那一拍也屬於節奏。一個人停手，另一個人才聽見。
燈熄之後，河水照常流動。鼓留在階梯上，下一步不需要被觀看。
Read the statement in English
She believed the world would turn only if she never missed a step.
Shiva Nataraja sustains creation and dissolution with a dance. She is not a god, only a dancer borrowing a few of its images: the drumbeat becomes red dust rising from her feet, the ring of fire a ring of stage lights, the many forms a pair of shadows cast by two lamps.
In the empty rehearsal hall there is only breath. In the red-earth courtyard she dances faster until her feet grow heavy. She sets the red costume aside and walks into a corridor of mirrors; every mirror holds her, and none answers for her. On the black stone platform she finally sits and listens to someone else's drum.
Nataraja's dance cannot stop. What she learns is that the paused beat belongs to the rhythm too: when one person stops, another can be heard.
After the lights go out, the river keeps flowing. The drum stays on the steps, and the next step needs no audience.
