Needcompany’s The Time Between Two Mistakes
Colour, loud music and a lot of glitter as the performers muse on the place and meaning of art
Asia Pages/亞洲頁
Taipei National University of the Arts’ Focus Dance 2017
Works by French choreographer Lucas Viallefond, Hofesh Shechter dancer Chang Chien-ming, and students
Cloud Gate 2’s Spring Riot
Artistic director Cheng Tsung-lung (鄭宗龍) turns to three young choreographers
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
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