Festival Parallèle 15, Le journal du PCT II

February 4 at 20:00
Friche la Belle de Mai, Petit Plateau

Danse
Duration: 40 min

In co-presentation with Friche la Belle de Mai

As part of the Professionalization Cycle for the Sustainability of the Cultural Sector – Southern Young Choreographers program, supported by the Fondation de France and the Caisse des Dépôts

The solo Le Journal du PCT II aims to convey the emotional tones experienced during a roughly six-month hike along the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) in the United States. Yu-Hsuan Chiu combines the materials collected during this journey—logbook entries, sound recordings, and research videos. Following in the tradition of walking artists—who view outdoor space as a studio and walking as a form of landscape performance—the PCT becomes a score to generate a sensory experience: P for practice, performance; C for change, contact; T for traversal, translation.
From the hike to its transposition on stage, from outdoors to indoors, Le Journal du PCT II offers audiences an escape, a wandering, a transgression that invites reflection, sensation, and experimentation.

How can walking be approached as a dance practice?
What is the state of my body while walking, climbing mountains?
If walking is already a performance and forms a score, how can this score be reinterpreted or transposed indoors on a stage? How can a landscape be created that materializes within my body?

Biographie

Following in the footsteps of walking artists, Yu-Hsuan Chiu grounds her choreographic work in attentive listening to the landscape, close to its contours. From Taipei to Montpellier, from the National University of the Arts in Taipei to the Master Exerce (ICI—CCN/UPVM), she cultivates a corporeality at the crossroads of paths. Her dance research is an invitation to attune to the living world. Through walking, an act of mediation, she connects with shared territories, coexists with other-than-human beings, and establishes social relations that shape her senses. Transfigured in this way, she explores her new relationship to the world through dance. She is currently an artist-researcher and doctoral candidate at Paul Valéry University Montpellier 3.

Crédits

Distribution

Choreographic concept, performance, sound: Yu-Hsuan Chiu
Text development, outside eye: Sabine Macher
Artistic assistant, photography, lighting design: Philippe Liezi
Space, visual design: Pauline Lavogez

Executive production

LAB-L (2024-2025) ; les montagnes assises (2025-)

Co-production

Les SUBS – lieu vivant d'expériences artistiques ; Lyon Pacifique CDCN Grenoble, accueil en résidence ; CN D Centre nationale de la danse, accueil en résidence ; La Ménagerie de verre dans le cadre de StudioLab ; Point Ephémère x cheville ; Plateforme LAB-L

Support

Les SUBS – lieu vivant d'expériences artistiques; Lyon Pacifique CDCN Grenoble, residency host; CN D Centre nationale de la danse, residency host; La Ménagerie de verre dans le cadre de StudioLab ; Point Ephémère x cheville ; Plateforme LAB-L

Studio provided

Agora, Cité Internationale de la Danse | Montpellier Danse + CCN Occitanie

Parallèle 15 is about forty artists, performances, visual art exhibitions, screenings, readings, meetings, and partys.

Yu-Hsuan Chiu
Le journal du PCT II

2026