The 16th World Ballet Festival on demand
Everything is straight out of the top drawer in the first of two programmes from the festival held in Tokyo in August 2021
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Reflections on life: In Time You Will by Sun-Shier Dance Theatre
The older performers steal the show. It could easily have become over-sentimental, yet it’s all done with a beautiful light touch delicacy
A double-bill for our times: T.H.E. Dance Company’s Seeing ___ Through The Eyes Of Impermanence
A deeply thoughtful double bill from Singapore of hidden stories, unusual perspectives and struggles with life.
New works curated by Sun Shier Dance Theatre
New work from emerging Taipei artists. Six short films, none longer than 15 minutes, and a mixed bunch in pretty much every sense of the term
Cloud Gate Dance Theatre’s 13 Tongues, open-air amid the rice fields of Chihshang
With its fields of rice, sky in multiple shades of grey, and clouds slowly drifting across the mountains, the landscape provides a magnificent backdrop
A shape-shifting tale of love and desire: Fox Tales by GuoGuang Opera Company
A super production that fuses traditional Chinese opera with vivid digital multimedia design that brings the imaginary world to spectacular life
Singapore Dance Theatre returns with Masterpiece in Motion
Poignant reminders of dance’s ability to create universes with earthly moorings but lined with stardust
An ancient story brought to vivid life: Gayatri
It’s combination of contemporary and traditional; of history, music and movement; is unexpectedly compelling.
Captivating dance from Singapore: T.H.E Dance Company in Pán
A look at transculturation, Pán is superbly danced. The performers come together in a delicious whole
Finding oneself, finding ‘woman’: Yun Collective’s This is Not a solo dance
In her dance, Ruby Chang talks to herself, questions herself. Is there one ‘woman’ or lots of ‘women’? And, where, what, who is she?
Taiwan Season at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe: The Back of Beyond
Internal, spiritual, sensual; a beautiful and mesmeric work of light and dark, or movement and stillness