Tao Dance Theater: "what your eyes perceive is exactly what our hearts hope to express"

Tao Dance Theater features two performances at the Rivoli on 11 May, at 10pm, in the context of the DDD - Days of the Dance Festival.

Can the title of a performance define the performance itself? The starting point of the 4&8 Numerical Series is that a title is not enough to condensing the sense of a dance, as it can limit and control the spectators' viewpoint.

Thus, the Numerical Series build possible arrangements that open up to imagination, and intend to transcend the duality of abstract versus concrete thinking.

"4 & 8" is the perfect combination to discovering the dancer's virtuosity and the symmetry ability of their bodies on stage, a sublime vision. In "4", four dancers remain standing, and move in a circular and cyclic way, without touching, but forming a unity. In "8", eight dancers form a line on the ground and in sequential batched movements, a ritualistic repetition, to the hypnotic sound of Xiao He's music, a Chinese indie-folk-rock type of music.  

TAO Dance Theater is a dance Company established by Tao Ye, Duan Ni and Wang Hao in 2008. The company has toured over 40 countries in the past 10 years, and it was the first Chinese company to perform at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, In the USA, at the Edinburgh International Festival, in the UK, and at Sydney Opera House, in Australia or even at the Theatre de la Ville de Paris, in France.

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