ABSTRACT
Chapter 4 centers on the bodily reconceptualization of the Amis theater practitioner Adaw Palaf Langasan. In Adaw’s endeavor to transform culturally displaced and dismembered indigenous bodies into ritualized bodies, transformance has become an act of worship. With reference to the creative processes of Where Is the Way? (Icowai ko Lalan?, 路在哪裡？, Lu Zai Nali?) of 2002 and The Great Deluge (U Maleno’ay a Sakimaden no Pangcah, 大洪水, Da Hongshui) of 2004, the chapter foregrounds the necessity of weaving socially engaged theater praxis into the existing social structure of a community to ensure the efficacy and sustainability of transformance.
