Dawn Theatre Project

Opening tomorrow ⏳

Unfinished Island Songs 🌊

We’d love to share this space with you.

✨ Come 20 minutes early
to explore the smell, taste, and play of Taiwan—
and gently enter the world of the performance.

📍 Wirtz Center Chicago (Northwestern Downtown)
Abbott Hall Black Box 203
710 N Lake Shore Dr

Please allow time for downtown traffic.

🎟️ Tickets — link in bio
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A peek into the process— a glimpse inside Chih-Jou’s mind

"I think people sometimes assume improvisation is easier,
but honestly, it asks for so much more.

More presence.
More awareness—
of myself,
of my body,
of the people I’m moving with.

And it takes time.
To stay in the room.
To sit with discomfort.
To face emotions that aren’t easy to hold.

There’s something really powerful about that kind of honesty.
When the movement is real,
it holds a raw energy—
something like controlled chaos.
it almost becomes a ritual—
inviting everyone in the space
to witness and feel together.

But I’m also constantly navigating this other voice—

“I’m not a good enough dancer.”
“This isn’t interesting enough.”
“My body can’t do this.”
"How can I dance with my knee injury."
“What if I look ridiculous?”

Especially with my knee,
there are moments I wonder
if I should even be doing this at all.

And somehow… I’m still here.
Still listening.
Still moving."

Unfinished Island Songs

🎟️ Tickets available — link in bio
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🌊 Meet the Team — Unfinished Island Songs
Becoming, between what we carry and where we are.

🌿 Seojung Jang
⚓ Lighting Designer

Seojung Jang is a lighting designer based in Chicago, working across theatre, musicals, opera, and dance. Her credits include Birds of North America (A Red Orchid Theatre), Pot Girls, Gorgeous, and The Love Object (Raven Theatre), Passion (Greenhouse Theater), and Mirrored Pool (Center for Puppetry Arts). She has also served as assistant lighting designer at Steppenwolf Theatre (No Man's Land) and as associate lighting designer on The Castle (National Theater of Korea). She is the recipient of the 2025 USITT YDMT Barbizon Jonathan Resnick Lighting Design Award and Opera America's Robert L.B. Tobin Director-Designer Prize, and holds an MFA in Lighting Design from Northwestern University.

🌿 Wisdom Murray
⚓ Asst SM/PM

Wisdom J. Murray is a versatile theatre director, producer, writer, and composer with a BA in Theatre directing from Columbia College Chicago. He has directed notable plays such as Doubt: A Parable and Gruesome Playground Injuries, and assisted in productions like Hamlet and Sunday in the Park With George. Wisdom also composes original music and creates digital content, including the Zayden Grey Vlogs. Currently based in Chicago, Wisdom hopes to be involved in more art that can create difficult conversations for those who attend.

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🌊 Meet the Team — Unfinished Island Songs
Listening through the body.

🌿 黃詩詠 Blake Huang
⚓ Videographer/Video Editor

Blake is an award-winning Taiwanese filmmaker based in Chicago, who has diverse experiences in production and post-production roles, such as Video Editor, Digital Imaging Technician, and Sound Designer. Her works blend a wide range of genres, including commercials, short films, documentaries and instructional videos.

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This work begins with real stories.
Through oral history and live conversations,
we listen to the lived experiences of Taiwanese immigrants,
which shape the structure of the work.

Then we started asking—
how does the body change from day to day?
through emotion, hormones, and what we carry.

After many conversations,
we chose to take a creative risk.

Instead of fixing every movement,
we choreograph emotional arcs and intentions—
while keeping the movement open, improvised, and alive.

So each performance can stay honest
to the changing body—
including physical realities, like Chih-Jou’s knee injury.

A process of listening,
adapting, and becoming.

Unfinished Island Songs

🎟️ Tickets available — link in Bio

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