TAO 2013 China Premiere
After touring nearly 20 countries on four continents from 2009-2012, including Lincoln Center and Sydney Opera House, TAO finally returns home to perform for Beijing audiences at the National Centre for the Performing Arts on August 3 and 4.
Beijing audiences finally had the opportunity to see their home-grown company that The New York Times has called “extraordinary” and the Financial Times has called “a force of nature.”
Tao Ye's dance works belong to the 21st century. They amaze and provoke deeper reflection. In my dreams I can create dance works like these, yet at the same time I know that I am not capable.
TAO Dance Theater has a unique artistic direction, and a powerful expression of deep excavation of the limits of the body's movement possibilities. It is both individual yet universal; creative and expressive. We all anticipate the day China has even more genuine artists like them.
About the Artist
Tao Ye
Artistic Director Tao Ye is a graduate of the Chongqing Dance School in Chongqing, China. After dancing with the Shanghai Army Song & Dance Ensemble, he joined Shanghai Jin Xing Dance Theater, and later moved to Beijing to join the Beijing Modern Dance Company (BMDC).
In March 2008, at only 22 years old, he founded TAO Dance Theater. Main works include his number series Weight x 3; 2; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8. In 2012 leading Asian style magazine Men's UNO awarded Tao Ye the 2012 Elegance Award, recognizing leaders in China’s culture and entertainment field. In 2013, The Beijing News awarded him the 2013 Innovator Award for Dance, and the 2015 Emerging Artist Award. In 2013 The Beijing News awarded him the 2013 Innovator Award for Dance. He is a 2012-14 Sadler’s Wells "New Wave Associates" artist.
Program
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Choreography: Tao Ye, Duan Ni
Composer: Xiao He
Dancers: Tao Ye, Duan Ni
Lighting Designer: Tao Ye, Ma Yue
Costume Designer: Tao Ye, Li Min
Choreography: Tao Ye
Composer: Xiao He
Dancers: Duan Ni, Lei Yan, Fu Liwei, Wang Mingchao
Lighting Designer: Tao Ye, Ma Yue
Costume Designer: Tao Ye, Li Min
Wall Street Journal: Modern Dance Group Comes Home to Beijing
China Daily: The Tao of Dance
Time Out Beijing: The Tao of dance: Tao Ye interview
