June 11
Teatro Politeama
at 21.00
CHOREOGRAPHY TAO YE
MUSIC BY XIAO HE
TRAINING DUAN NI
PRODUCED TAO DANCE THEATER
6: LIGHT DESIGN BY MA YUE, ELLEN RUGE
COSTUMES TAO YE, LI MIN
DANCERS HUANG LI, MING DA, YAN YULIN, GUO HUANSHUO, ZHANG QIAOQIAO, FAN MIN
COMMISSIONED BY NORRLANDSOPERAN WITH THE SUPPORT OF UMEA2014, SWEDISH ARTS COUNCIL, SWEDISH ARTS GRANTS COMMITTEE RE-GION VASTERBOTTEN, CHINA LITERATURE AND ART FOUNDATION
9: LIGHT DESIGN BY TAO YE, MA YUE
COSTUMES DUAN NI
DANCERS HUANG LI, MING DA, YAN YULIN, GUO HUANSHUO, ZHANG QIAOQIAO, FAN MIN, LIU XI-CHAO, YI YI, HUA TING
PRODUCED AND CO-COMMISSIONED BY A ASIA TOPA AND ARTS CENTRE MELBOURNE, SADLER’S WELLS LONDON, THÉÂTRE DE LA VILLE – PARIS / LA VILLETTE-PARIS, SHANGHAI INTERNATIONAL DANCE CENTER THEATER E NATIONAL TAICHUNG THEATER
National Premiere
6 revolves around the spine to represent a return to the most primal active force “to move” as human beings. The manifold of space is slowly unwoven in the deliberate twisting and bending of the spine. Rigid steps and angular turns alternate with loose swaying movements. Elastic lightness becomes rigid minimalism and takes on threatening martial aspects. In this process, ordinary movements of the body are condensed to the most essential motions. Designed by the famed Swedish visual artist Ellen Ruge, the streaming and interlacing lighting for 6 creates a fantastically dynamic play of light and shadow.
9, signifies a departure from TAO’s previous works and it presents a scene that summarizes, but is nonetheless richer than the enclosed and completed “Circular Movement System”, a body movement system originally created by TAO Dance Theater. The connection between moving bodies are extracted from this system, then reconfigured to form the self-identifiable choreographic vocabularies that constitute the movements of the nine dancers in 9. These movements form a code-like connection hidden within “chaos”.
