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13 & 14

TAO Dance Theater

Double-bill 13 & 14 is with a 15-minute intermission

13

Choreographer: TAO Ye

Composer: Xiao He

Lighting Designers: MA Yue, TAO Ye

Costume Designer: DUAN Ni

Costume Maker: DNTY

Dancers: HUANG Qiqi, YAN Yulin, XU Fujin, TONG Yusheng, LI Siyu, LIU Yiren, SUN Leirui, WU Zhenkai, LI Jiayu, CHENG Leting, WAN Lu, LU Wenchao, and etc.

Duration: 30 minutes

13 is the twelfth installment of choreographer Tao Ye’s “Numerical Series”. This work uses the concept of the Trinity to correspond to the number 13, which includes solo dance, duet dance and group dance. These three types of body interaction and connection constitute the entire creation.

In the work, the dancers are connected into a whole, and then gradually fission into different forms. The continuous changes in the dance sequence during the movement open up a complex physical world: the realization of impact, extrusion, fusion, and falling , rebound, pull and other infinite phenomena. Through slow, medium and fast rhythms, the bodies are transformed into water, mountains, rocks and all things. At this time, the body, as a medium, demonstrates the vagaries of imagination.

The concepts of one, two and multiple dimentions form a rule. In this creation, the choreographer cultivated the three changes of body, space, and time to form a chaotic whole. Rigorous and open concepts are used in the choreography to respond to the different states of the present concrete and impermanent.

14

Choreographer & Sound Conception: TAO Ye

Lighting Designers: MA Yue, TAO Ye

Costume Designer: DUAN Ni

Dancers: HUANG Qiqi, YAN Yulin, XU Fujin, TONG Yusheng, LI Siyu, LIU Yiren, SUN Leirui, WU Zhenkai, LI Jiayu, CHENG Leting, WAN Lu, LU Wenchao, and etc.

Duration: 30 minutes

Rhythm is the linkage of all life.

14, the thirteenth work of Tao Ye’s “Numerical Series”, is about the exploration of rhythm and change. How to challenge the new context of the body? This time, Tao Ye breaks the previous creative method of repeated cycles, and uses the ever-changing texture of movement to explore the space-time possibility between movement and stillness.

The music of this work boldly adopts a single minimalist well-balanced temperament, and uses the progressive method of the hour hand to correspond to the complex dynamics of the body in dance. Through the audio-visual relationship of less is more, the Circular Movement System (body technique of TAO Dance Theater) is expanded to the ultimate.

The cuttings and foldings of points, lines and planes in the space, the agitation and swing with the control of weight, make the work return to pure body movement again, and all possibilities will unfold in a changing and unchanged rhythm.

Artistic Directors: Tao Ye, Duan Ni

Company Manager: Wang Hao

Rehearsal Director: Huang Qiqi

Technical Director: Ma Yue

Producer & Project Director: Jun Jun

Executive Coordinator: Tai Yuanxu

Visual Director: Fan Xi

DNTY Managing Director: Ning He

Tour Coordinators: Jun Jun, Tai Yuanxu