A delicious confection: The Tokyo Ballet in The Nutcracker
Akira Akiyama allies strength with a lovely soft delicacy. She finds remarkable lightness is everything as she speaks with her whole body
Asia Pages/亞洲頁
Translating a divergent body
David Agudelo Restrepo on a work that asks how translatable is the disabled experience to those who do not inhabit bodies with such limitations
B.DANCE in The Cell: a mesmerising look at self conversation in a time of chaos
Riveting choreography. By looking at the madness we…have gone through, Tsai Po-Cheng invites the audience to let go, explore our deeper feelings
Dreams, determination, passion: Ballet in Tandem looks at the state of ballet in Taiwan
A look at the scene as it is through the eyes of the dancers past and present, while glancing back at some of the history of ballet on the island
Sun Shier Dance Theatre: In Time You Will 2.0
Perhaps best described as a collection of dance essays. Some overlap, some do not… but the underlying theme of time is never too far away.
Edinburgh Fringe: BEYOND Bollywood’s In/Out of Bounds and Theiya Arts Dance Collective in The Ticking Clock
In/Out of Bounds, a cross-cultural coming together of Indian and Chinese dance; and The Ticking Clock, a look at climate change
Edinburgh Fringe: Two from Taiwan, Shinehouse Theatre and Chou Kuan-Jou
The Whisper of the Waves is very, very stylish and has a lovely pace and rhythm. It comes with depth and intensity
Edinburgh Fringe: Dance, acrobatics and colour in Diabolo Dance Theatre’s Light of Life
a magical hour of dance and acrobatics that oozes warmth and that will delight the whole family.
Edinburgh Fringe: Resident Island Dance Theatre in Ice Age; Indepen-dance in Entwined
For all its downbeat beginning, Ice Age definitely comes with a life affirming, positive outlook. It ends celebrating the human body and spirit