Focus Dance Company 2024
Six works by students alongside Self-Portrait by Hung Tsai-hsi and Hofesh Shechter’s powerful In Your Rooms. The dancing was top drawer
Asia
Balanchine, Forsythe and Foniadakis in Hong Kong Ballet’s The Rule Breakers
A triple-bill of Balanchine’s Serenade, Forsythe’s In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated, and the new Strangelove by Andonis Foniadakis
Cybernetics, dance and the future? Pichet Klunchun’s Cyber Subin
Could human dancers have a symbiotic, cybernetics-like relationship with machines, the outcome being a new form of contemporary dance?
Cloud Gate Dance Theatre: Lunar Halo in Taipei
It’s one of those very rare pieces that doesn’t just grow on you with repeated viewings but that seems to reveal more and spark new thoughts with each revisiting
Singapore’s T.H.E Dance Company in a triple bill of short works
In Un-form, all three dancers are quite compelling, their dance amazingly detailed, superbly performed and clearly with great personal meaning
Cloud Gate Dance Theatre: Lunar Halo
The total commitment of the dancers produces a torrid intensity that sears across the footlights.
A new take on an old story: Kidd Pivot in Crystal Pite and Jonathon Young’s Revisor
Quite simply, a brilliant piece of theatre, one where the performers don’t move to music but dance the words, physically expressing them in every way
A picture of war, resilience and hope: United Ukrainian Ballet in Alexei Ratmansky’s Wartime Elegy
Danced to piano and string compositions by Valentin Silvestrov, and traditional folk music, it’s a picture of the people behind the headlines
Young Stars, New Vision. New dance in Taipei
Dance, physical theatre and circus to the National Theater’s black box stage in three, very different, 30-minute works.
Joy, tears and more: Want to Dance Festival’s Exchange Program
Including ‘Sky ~ World challenge in Taiwan~’ by Reisa Shimojima from Japan. A serious theme for sure, but utterly mad and utterly brilliant
Dance in all its variety: Shinehouse Theatre’s Want to Dance Festival
Over three packed days, artists from 15 countries presented 74 works at the company’s Wan Theater and 16 less traditional venues.