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Tao Dance Theater - 8&9

Date: Nov 3-4 - 7:30 pm

Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts

Price: 100-500 yuan

Tao Ye's piece 8 is the last of his "Straight Line Trilogy". This piece furthers Tao's characteristic line of creative exploration. It uncovers the innate logic of bodily movement through an accumulation by the repetition of movements, and through the investigation of possible movements within the constraints imposed on our body. In performance, the dancers lie on the stage-floor instead of standing, in this way their bodies are further restricted to the floor and movements are limited to the moving range of their spines. Under this limitation, the capabilities of the body of the dancers' can be further explored and released. So from the audience's point of view, no heads, arms or legs are to be seen, whereas the torso comes into central focus.