University of Taipei dance students in a varied programme
Eddies of the Body (身‧流漫), a five-work evening, including the super Plural Bodies (複數的身體) by Tung I-fen
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Taichung university graduating dance students shine
National Taiwan University of Sport at the Metropolitan Hall, TaipeiMarch 4, 2025 March to early-April is the season for the annual performances by the graduating students at Taiwan’s major university dance departments. Given the range of styles they have to master, it is always amazing just how good the standard of performance is. This year … Read more
High altitude: Compagnie de Chaillot in Rachid Ouramdane’s Corps extrêmes
Something special and quite unique. It’s not so much what the performers do, as remarkable as that is, but how they do it; the ease, grace…
Focus Dance Company: Tempestuous
A rich and diverse programme of one masterwork, one popular revival and eight new student works… All were superbly danced.
Modernity, tradition, identity, society in a Taipei triple-bill
Nameless Practice by Chien Lin-yi (簡麟懿): “Brim-full of ideas and fabulous images… a really terrific piece that holds the attention from start to finish”
Dance, installation, music, protest, affirmation: Bintou Dembélé’s G.R.O.O.V.E.
An evening of visual and emotional power, and of fireworks, that I have not seen the like of previously at the National Theater
A journey of self-discovery: Islands by Shimmering Production
A compelling exploration that sees two dancers explore the cultural essence of their bodies as they seek to answer the questions, ‘Who am I?’ and ‘Who are we?’
Modernity meets tradition in Lazgi by National Ballet of Uzbekistan
An unexpected surprise. The choreography is endlessly inventive, the corps moving seamlessly from interesting shape to interesting shape
Wildly creative. Ambiguous Dance Company in The Belt – Past and Future
These Korean dancers are a force of nature. I love their audacity, their phenomenal energy and most of all, their wild, fantastic creativity
Youth Ballet Ensemble Taiwan x BAOTanz
The young dancers of YBET were sadly nowhere to be seen in a double bill that was, in fact, a showcase for four of Taiwan’s established artists.
A weekend of all that’s good about dance at Taipei’s Want to Dance Festival
The festival guarantees surprise, delight, frustration and more as established choreographers and dancers rub shoulders with those still emerging