English National Ballet: Akram Khan’s Giselle in Taipei
Erina Takahashi remains a dancer and actor par excellence. There were excellent performances all round in Taipei, but it was very much her evening.
National Theater Taipei
HORSE/Su Wei-chia: FreeSteps – murmur
It takes a lot for a solo to hold an audience for over an hour… yet Su does just that in a remarkable, introspective performance that engages throughout
Bulareyaung Dance Company: tiaen tiamen Episode 2
The work is all about relationships, between individuals or an individual and the group. Some appear to be intense, some light
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…
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
TAI Body Theatre: Sym-Body
Can indigenous dance presented on stage ever be called ‘authentic’? A question posed by TAI Body Theatre’s Sym-Body
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
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
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.
Uniquely Taiwan: Cloud Gate Dance Theatre in Legacy
Presently being restaged as part of Cloud Gate’s 50th anniversary celebrations, it is ninety minutes of magnificent dance, and magnificent theatre