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    E. SHA Age

    Waro HSUEH 2008 Taiwan Documentary color 92min Mandarin, Taiwanese Digi Beta
    People used to associate dancing groups to stripping or exotic dancing. However, not many knew the kind of formal musical drama performances has already existed in Taiwan for half a century. In the musical history of Taiwan, “E.SHA Singing and Dancing Group” (1960-1984) has been in the spotlight for twenty-four years with their creative and lavish performance style. “E.SHA Singing and Dancing Group” was so popular, they were invited to tour in Japan, Hong Kong and Southeast Asia.
    However, Twenty-some years later after the group broke up, the former stars began to recreate their performances with a group of young students. What kind of show would the performers of two generations create? The subject matter of this film involves half a century of history and this documentary presents history with live performances. The film is about the process of how former E.SHA performers who were active in musical theater circles and the young dancers cooperating with them to recreate performances using a contemporary point of view to interpret musicals from that period.

    Director

    Waro HSUEH

    Waro HSUEH is a former journalist, lm marketing executive, producer of a movie channel and an international channel. Her lms are mostly about history, anthropology, and NGO related. Currently, she is working freelance in visual arts and is very interested in using images to study archaeology. She has recently re ned her focus to international topics. In 2007, she started shooting her documentaries in HD. E.SHA Age is her rst documentary shot in HD.

    Waro HSUEH

    1999 請問幾位 Table for Two

    2000 封凍的記憶 Frozen Memory

    2003 Help From Taiwan

    2005 雪域之南—流亡藏人在印度 Snow Land of the South

    2006 跨足濁水溪—橫越太平洋Cross the Paci c, Cross the Zhuoshui River 

    2007 相遇於邊境 Meeting at the Border

    2008 藝霞年代 E.Sha Age

    Director/薛常慧Waro HSUEH

    Producer/陳秋芬Chiu-Fen CHEN、劉華玲Hua-Ling LIU

    Screenplay/薛常慧Waro HSUEH

    Cinematographer/曾憲忠Bodo TSENG、李孟哲Meng-Zhe LI、馮信華Hsin-Hua FENG、盧元奇Yuan-Ci LU Editor/蕭冠汝Kuan-Ju HSIAO

    Sound/潘麗麗Li-Li PAN

    Music/藝霞歌舞劇團原曲

    Original Music by E. SHA Singing and Dancing Group

    Actor/小咪Xiao-Mi、王淑卿Shu-Qing WANG、黃秋燕Qiu-Yan HUANG、潘瑞蘭Rui-Lan PAN、蔡寶玉Pao-Yu TSAI Language/Mandarin, Taiwanese

    Production & Sales Company:

    睛典文化映像有限公司Mada Ideas Company Inc. 100台北市中正區漢口街一段110號8樓之16號 / Rm. 16, 8F., No. 110, Sec. 1, Hankou St., Zhongzheng Dist., Taipei City 100, Taiwan

    Tel: 886-2-23718491

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