Corps Extrêmes Contemporary Dance Performance Visual Identity Designed by Yeh Chung-Yi
February 18, 2026 Focus2026Arts & CulturePerforming Arts EditorialIdentityPosterEditorial Taiwan
Taiwanese graphic interpretation of a contemporary dance performance that investigates weightlessness through a system of repetition, variation, and spatial compression, reframing choreographic tension.
Corps Extrêmes is a contemporary dance performance conceived by French choreographer Rachid Ouramdane, Artistic Director of Théâtre National de Chaillot in Paris, and created with Compagnie de Chaillot, the theatre’s resident company dedicated to contemporary choreographic production. Known for works that merge documentary sensibility with physical intensity, Ouramdane often explores themes of risk, memory, resilience, and the limits of the human body. In Corps Extrêmes, these concerns materialize through performers navigating suspension, gravity, and vertical space, constructing a choreography that reflects on weightlessness, balance, and bodily extremity.
Developed for the 2025 presentation at the National Theater & Concert Hall in Taiwan, Yeh Chung-Yi’s visual identity translates the performance’s physical vocabulary into a structured graphic system responsive to its cultural and typographic context. Modular color blocks and geometric markers echo shifting balance and directional movement, while circular forms, square units, and linear fragments operate as abstracted bodies in motion across posters and printed matter. A saturated pink field anchors the compositions, punctuated by vivid red accents that introduce rhythm and interruption. Vertical typography and layered Chinese and Latin text establish tension between stability and suspension, extending the spatial logic of the choreography into the graphic field.
The result is an event identity that translates corporeal dynamics into visual structure, using scale, repetition, and spatial tension to convey the work’s investigation of extremity and weightlessness while situating the performance within the Taiwanese cultural context.