Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch: “…como el musguito en la piedra, ay si, si, si…”
Continuing what seemed to be becoming a trend in Bausch’s work, it’s much more colourful and lighter in tone than many of her tanztheater creations
National Theater Taipei
B.DANCE (丞舞製作團隊): Net (網)
A new work from Tsai Po-cheng (蔡博丞) that responds to the turmoil facing the world and the ‘net’ of politics, media, emotions and more that divide us.
Of what it is to be human: Being (S) duo by Wang Yeu-kwn
While certainly about relationships, the act of uncovering and covering, the presence of two generations, also points to birth and death, and a lot between
Wan Sha Dance Platform presents five emerging choreographers
An evening of great variety that included hip hop, dance theatre and more experimental pieces, all around fifteen minutes in length
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.
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?