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TAO DANCE THEATER IN ‘6’ AND ‘8’ (Dance)
February 22, 2017 @ 7:00 pm - February 24, 2017 @ 7:00 pm AEDT
$34 – $49
China’s most successful and globally sought-after avant-garde performance company returns to transfix Melbourne with its explorations of the human form.
Acclaimed choreographer Tao Ye’s TAO Dance Theater was a sellout hit at last year’s Supersense festival at Arts Centre Melbourne. Now this fascinating maverick is back with a double-bill: the fast-paced 6, which featured in last year’s Paris Men’s Fashion Week, and the sensuous and lyrical 8.
The two works bookend Tao Ye’s ‘Straight Line Trilogy’, in which dancers maintain precisely the same distance from one another, and which deploy repetition and variation to explore the invisible forces that bind us all. Through his work’s persistent focus on pure movement, Tao Ye has come to reveal the body in motion as the most meaningful expression of what it means to be human today.
The incessant motion of both works is choreographed to an intimate score from Chinese indie-folk-rock composer Xiao He, freeing the works of both Eastern and Western cultural motifs and inviting you to consider life’s – and the human body’s – limitations and limitlessness.
“Tao Ye doesn’t think in terms of Eastern or Western where his art is concerned … [his dances] stand on their own, with a quiet, dazzling resolve.” – The New York Times
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