Of faces and clothes: Maguy Marin’s Singspiele
Interpreter David Mambouch is alone on stage save for a variety of clothes, male and female, and a pad of headshots
Asia Pages/亞洲頁
Starkly beautiful pictures in The Eternal Tides by Legend Lin Dance Theatre
Lin draws local and national culture and an overwhelming sense of ritual into her dance
Lin Chun-yu: Here I love you
Picnic, a duet danced beautifully on a patch of synthetic grass amid a sea of opened black umbrellas
Dancing emotion: Nederlands Dans Theater in Taiwan
Works by Marco Goecke, Crystal Pite and Lightfoot-León in a strong triple bill
Bayerishes Staatsballett II: The Triadic Ballet and a truly mixed, mixed bill
Lyric Theatre, Hong Kong Academy for the Performing Arts February 21, 2017 David Mead It opens with Sinthia Liz, a porcelain ballerina with an upturned rainbow saucer for a tutu. That’s the first of a series of weird and wonderful costumes including tutus of golden, hooped wire, concertinaed material and coloured balls. Another dancer looks … Read more
La Bayadère misfires: Bayerisches Staatsballett in Hong Kong
Ryzhkova was as divine as a bayadère should be; lovely arms, beautiful technique and she makes you want to watch
Three looks at Dance in Asia
Century Contemporary Dance Company, Ha Youngmi and Off-Nibroll at the Shuiyuan Theater, Taipei December 30, 2016 David Mead Three works, three choreographers, three countries. Taiwan doesn’t get to see as much dance from around East Asia as one might expect, so this Dance in Asia (驅動城市) evening put together by Yao Shu-fen (姚淑芬) and her … Read more
Shining a light on the past: Continuous Project Altered Again
As it was once suggested was put on a big sign outside London’s National Gallery: “You don’t have to like it all.”
The Floating Space by Wu Chien-wei and Tussock Dance Theater
A deeply beautiful and sensual dance, and a great way to draw the curtain on 2016
Fine dance but 3D visuals struggle: T.T.C. Dance in Déjà Vu
Lots right choreographically but often underwhelming 3D visuals