Battle Jam: Own Your Style
Founded in 2017,《Battle Jam: Own Your Style》is an open platform for creators to join which continues the diversity of energy generated by monthly events and seasonal projectMONDAY SCHOOL, encouraging people to explore, experience, express, and cooperate further.
Through a series of gamification programs, 《Battle Jam: Own Your Style》breaks down the barriers between different creative fields. The competition combines the culture of hip-hop battle and jazz jam sessions, blurring the fine line that separates viewers and performers, immersing in the art of co-creation, introducing a trusty relationship and a cultural route for public art participation in Taiwan.
From the community dance events under Xinsheng Viaduct Playground in 2017, the open competition which combined non-discriminatory contests and lecture performances in Nuit Blanche 2018, to TIFA (Taiwan International Arts Festival) that cooperated with NTCH (National Theater and Concert Hall) in 2019. 《Battle Jam: Own Your Style》has been dedicated to leading the streets into the hall of the National Theater, and has undergone many transformations so far.
In 2022,《Battle Jam: Own Your Style》had introduced a new digital competition system. The audition was held on NTCH’s online platform called “Gather Town”, it’s a digital space that includes interactive scenes, characters, and props, transforming the final into a hybrid reality show.
The competition has a total of 141 competitors who came from 6 countries and 20 cities, sharing 42 different styles and languages. Also gathered were the media, venues, people from the performing arts industry, the general public, and the audiences who paid for the tickets to join, making《Battle Jam: Own Your Style》 a spectacular international competition that stood out during the post-pandemic era.
