ABSTRACT
Chapter 5 examines the intersection between transformance and the state discourse of multiculturalism. In Adaw’s collaboration with a local indigenous primary school, he reconceptualizes joyous bodies as an antidote to the depressive condition of Taiwanese indigeneity. By examining the creative process of a children’s version of The Great Deluge (2006), the chapter highlights ways in which transformance is superimposed with that of institutionalized arts pedagogy. In order to reconcile top-down and bottom-up approaches to creating embodied cultural diversity, the transformance that grassroots theater practitioners initiate must become a common vision among their institutionally affiliated collaborators.
