Asia Dance Channel

Event
Singapore Arts Festival 2011: “2”

Date
3 – 4 June 2011

Time
8:00pm

Venue
School of The Arts Drama Theatre, Singapore

Tickets
$45, $20

Contacts
nac_artsfestcommune@nac.gov.sg

Description
TAO Dance Theater (China)
Duan Ni and Tao Ye (Choreography and Dancers)

TAO Dance Theater 2011 creation "2" is co-commissioned by the Singapore Arts Festival, Dansmakers Amsterdam and NorrlandsOperan. In this piece, the artists recorded some of their conversations during rehearsals and daily life. After which, the texts were sent to the composer who used the natural spoken rhythms and written punctuation to develop a musical/sound score.

TAO Dance Theater intends for the meaning of this character 2 to be uncertain, because it is not possible to use one word to express the artists’ attitude. Perhaps 2 represents something as simple as two souls in conversation, or one talking to oneself; they used the point of view of this abstract symbol to express this work and even a new method for creation continuing into the future. Is the next one 5 or 9 or…? This is not certain; but what is certain is that these new discoveries will bring forth for future creations, a New Free World.

In the rush of the moment there is no time to think, the present already becomes past, the future is already now, how do you choose if you are coming or going?

Visit Swedish National Radio and Vasterbottens-Kuriren for a preview of 2's work-in-progress showing at the M.A.D.E. Festival!