A daring Eastern vision of death and rebirth: Yang Liping’s Rite of Spring
The might of destruction and the light in regeneration
Yang Liping (杨丽萍)
Yang Liping brings the cycle of life, death and rebirth to the Rite of Spring
A Tibetan Buddhist perspective on the classic coming to Sadler’s Wells and the Edinburgh International Festival
A year in dance: 2016 in review
SeeingDance editor David Mead takes a personal glance back at the dance he saw in 2016.
Startlingly beautiful: Under Siege by Yang Liping
Sadler’s Wells, London November 3, 2016 DavidMead At nigh on two hours without an interval, Under Siege (十面埋伏, which literally translates as ‘ambush from ten sides’) by Yang Liping (simp. 杨丽萍/trad. 杨丽萍) is far too long. Indeed, it seems to have grown 20 minutes since the programme (which reckoned 100 minutes) was printed. Is she … Read more