Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan comes to the Brooklyn Academy of Music with Lin Hwai-min's "Rice." When Lin Hwai-min brought his Cloud Gate Dance Theatre from Taipei to the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival in 2000, one performer stood in a near corner of the stage all through Songs of the Wanderers while gold-dyed rice streamed down on his head and pooled around him. That … [Read more...]
Life as Brushstrokes on a Page
Eighteen or so men and women stand motionless, spaced out on a slanting white floor with one truncated corner. All of them wear long, full, white skirts made of a translucent fabric. The men are bare-chested, while the women wear flesh-colored tops. But wait! Are they motionless? As a drawn-out, piercing sound breaks the silence, you’re suddenly aware of shifts in the dancers’ bodies. These shifts … [Read more...]