MONDAY SCHOOL
“Performing arts as a social support system contributes to community co-creational.”
The core value of Monday School is creating a space for everyone who can dance enjoyable. It takes place by Les Petites Choses Production at the vacancy under an expressway, and the participants do not need to register and pay the fee to join the school. Monday School is a public arts initiative supported by participants and crowdfunding.
Initially, there were only 20 participants who joined the school in 2015, and most were art school alumni. To respond to the needs of society and enhance the subjective of the participants, we organized more diverse lessens of performing art, taking Playgroup as the core and introducing gamification into the event. Afterward, average participants broke through one hundred people, by great reviews and well-communicating in society. Members include backgrounds in dance, theater, street performance, and ordinary publics.
To promote the intercourse between the arts community and society, Monday School holds "Battle Jam: Own Your Style" at the end of each year. It is an annual performance/competition event that integrates hip-hop Battle forms as a base and embraces various performance styles and types. In 2018, this project was invited by National Theater and Concert Hall to become a program of the Taiwan International Festival of Arts. In 2022, it transformed into a performing arts reality show broadcast online and also took place in the theater.
To construct a support system that develops with society, Monday School becomes the first performing art organization that launches a crowdfunding project. Without government support, Monday School has taken places lots of events that travel various types of spaces nationally, from squares, primary and junior high schools, and juvenile reformatories to online spaces, and nearly 9,000 people participate in person.
This innovative aesthetic production and events make more people participate automatically, creating shared memories with art and society. Also, create an advanced approach to art innovation supported by public and performing arts organizations.