How to play the weighting game

(China Daily)
Updated: 2009-09-04 08:47

Weight, by the Beijing-based traveling dance company TAO Dance Theater, refers to how dancers use their weight to develop a simple movement and then repeat it over and over again through their bodies.

This dance premiere is "the most interesting thing going on in China's modern dance world today," according to its producer, Alison Friedman.

Set up in 2008, TAO Dance Theater has already performed in many modern dance festivals throughout China and will be featured as part of the prestigious bi-annual Europalia Festival in Brussels this fall.

Tao Ye, choreographer and founder of the innovative young troupe says when the dancers share their experiences with audiences each audience member will respond uniquely to what he sees. "And this in turn will create a new story, one that brings the performance and the audience's experience together, and thereby creates an entirely new meaning," he says.

3 pm, Sept 5; 7:30 pm, Sept 6

Oriental Pioneer Theater, 8-2 Dongdan Santiao, Beijing

400-810-3721, 6417-0058