LEE\VAKULYA  is a collaborative duo by Chen-Wei Lee and Vakulya Zoltan. Chen-Wei from Taiwan and Zoltan from Hungary are based in Brussels, Belgium. 

They have been working together since 2016, creating several stage works and museum/gallery-format exhibitions and performances. 

 

Wei and Zoltan have been dedicated to slowly crystallizing their own approach to movement, which comes together from their own physical research, inspired and enriched by companies and choreographers they have previously worked with. The likes of Voetvolk (BE), Batsheva (IL), Hodworks (HUN), and Mal Pelo (ESP)  are the anchors they have been referencing during their first two years of partnership. Since then, LEE\VAKULYA 's quality has characterized a fluid and defined physical approach that challenges the limitations of the body and often implies several composition strategies in their stage works.

 

The moving body is the centerfold in their work but belongs to and interacts with the social body as their main interest in the concept. 

Their artistic view is focused on the delicate relations between human beings and society while touching on vulnerable issues on the questions of boundaries and proximity, they push the limits of partnership and empathy.

 

Zoltan and Wei are particularly interested in themes that challenge our society in the 21st century.

Together Alone (2016) was a show where through the Siamese phenomenon, they navigated a piece that talked about partnership and empathy. 

kNOw FACE (2019) dealt with self-recognition as playing a social media influencer in the selfie culture, while in The Passing Measures (2020), they have partnered up the experience of confinement with the American composer, Alive Lucier’s sonic masterpiece ‘I’m sitting in a room’, and continue with experiencing the body under the pandemic.

Ride the Beat (2021) gave audiences a space to resonate with emotional relief and unleashed energy.

Burnt [ the eternal long now ] (2022) -which they have won the Taishin Performing Arts Award 2023 - deals with the theme of burnout syndrome, depicting the image of a modern rat race between three dancers until exhaustion won’t allow them to continue the show.

/// SLASH \\\ (2023) is their first solo exhibition that was commissioned by the Digital Art Center of Taipei, has been a work with elements of video and objects, continuing the theme of burnout syndrome, accompanied with the Greek myth of Prometheus. 

 

They have received awarded from TECO Award for the Art of Dance 2020 (Taiwan) and the Jeon Mak Arts Award 2017 (South Korea), and were nominated for the Taishin Art Award for Best Creation 2016, 2019, 2021, 2023 (Taiwan), Total Theatre Award 2017 (United Kingdom), Asian Art Awards 2017 (United Kingdom), Best Choreographer for the work Mephisto(2022), commissioned by the Serbian National Theater.