| Academy Dance: dance/lines |
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| Date |
2009/05/08-09 |
| Venue |
Academy Lyric Theatre |
| Ticket Price |
110,75(Adults) ; 95,65(Society Life and Executive members) ; 50(Full-time students , senior citizens over 65 or people with disbilities) |
| Synopsis |
Everything I Need to Know I Learnt from the Propaganda Ballets by Yuri Ng Of Dreams in Time and Space by Zhang Jianmin White Tape by Cheng Tsung-lung Impulse by Leigh Warren The past few seasons have seen the Academy Dance Ensemble move into a new, high-powered trajectory: high production values, challenging and innovative works from world-class choreographers, and some brilliant performances. This May's dance/lines promises to be no exception. The four works on the programme are loosely held together by the theme of lines - both real and metaphorical - that connect and link, hold and bind, lead and guide. In his White Tape. Taiwanese choreographer Cheng Tsung-lung uses exactly that: white tape not only criss-crosses the stage to form a complex spatial matrix for the dance, but also stands as a metaphor for the restriction and denial of freedom. In contrast, red threads signify everything from childhood games to the seminal Moa-ist period ballet Red Detachment of Women in Yuri Ng's quirky Everything I Need to Know I Learnt from the Propaganda Ballets. A little less obvious perhaps, the lines in Impulse belong to the strings of the School of Music quartet, who not only provide the music for the twelve cross-stream dancers, but become part of the dance itself. Choreographed by Australian Leigh Warren, the lively, high-spirited work is performed to Michael Nyman's String Quartet No.2. Last but by no means least, in Of Dreams in Time and Space world renown Chinese choreographer/director Zhang Jianmin (most widely known perhaps for his choreography for Zhang Yimou's film House of Flying Daggers) has created a dream-world that both connects life in a modern sky-scraper city to unspoken hopes and dreams, and leads us back in time to the elegiac seven-character verse by Tang Dynasty poet Cen Can. |
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