久久亚洲国产成人影院-久久亚洲国产的中文-久久亚洲国产高清-久久亚洲国产精品-亚洲图片偷拍自拍-亚洲图色视频

chinadaily.com.cn
left corner left corner
China Daily Website

Dance between the lines

Updated: 2013-03-08 10:57
By Raymond Zhou ( China Daily)
Dance between the lines

Nine Songs, a production by Asia's foremost dance company Cloud Gate, is a poetic tribute to those we should hold in reverence. Photo provided to China Daily

To fully appreciate Nine Songs, audiences need to know more than the Chinese language and culture. Raymond Zhou reviews.

Lin Hwai-min's Nine Songs is more than a recreation of ancient rituals or an amalgam of pagan extravaganzas. It is a perfect fusion of the past and the present. As a matter of fact, it subtly portrays the progress of spiritual activities as refracted through the modern prism. Nine Songs was originally a cycle of poems by Qu Yuan, a poet of the Chu Kingdom who lived some 2,300 years ago, before China became a unified country.

Dance between the lines

Dancing their way to higher education 

Dance between the lines

 Chinese and overseas arts serve and return

However, it did not seem to be the intention of the Cloud Gate founder and choreographer to faithfully recapture the content of the poem through the body language, but rather, he wanted to use it as a kind of springboard to pay tribute to all those whom we should hold in reverence.

Chinese, or Asians in general, do not worship only one god. We have all kinds of gods and goddesses. And you do not need to know who they are or what they do to understand the rites of each number. It takes an ethnologist or anthropologist to decipher the origin of each rite as Lin has taken liberally from all kinds of sources, including Taiwan indigenous tribes, cave carvings from Northwestern China, and harvesting celebrations from Indonesia.

The penultimate number does require some knowledge of the Chinese language and Chinese history as names are chanted out in Mandarin and Taiwanese dialect over a long sequence for which men and women are gagged and executed.

These are Chinese heroes who sacrificed their lives for the sake of their nation. We worship them in the same sense our ancestors worshipped their gods and goddesses. With one touch, Lin connected esoteric shamanism with the modern legacy that binds the Chinese people.

Artistically, Nine Songs is a calculated study in contrast. Ming Cho Lee's set design is uncharacteristically realistic - for a modern dance piece.

For one thing, there is a lotus pond downstage complete with water, well, actually outside the proscenium where the orchestra pit is. On top of that, rows of stage curtains on both top and sides are replaced with giant panels of lotuses, which are inspired by a lotus painting by Taiwan artist Lin Yu-san. The giant moon for the backdrop looks like it was lifted from a Broadway musical.

For more coverage by Raymond Zhou, click here

Previous Page 1 2 3 Next Page

8.03K
 
 
...
...
...
主站蜘蛛池模板: 亚洲毛片免费在线观看 | 精品久久久中文字幕二区 | 国产精品免费视频一区一 | 成年人免费在线视频网站 | 亚洲第一中文 | 九九久久国产精品 | 国产在线精品一区二区夜色 | 国产精品手机视频一区二区 | 欧美高清在线精品一区二区不卡 | 亚洲性在线观看 | 午夜性色福利视频在线视频 | 国产精品美女久久久久网站 | 亚洲综合区| 久久99免费视频 | 久久综合久久精品 | 成人99国产精品 | 欧美一级日韩在线观看 | 日韩精品三级 | 欧美一级特黄aa大片在线观看免费 | 亚洲一区二区三区在线网站 | 香蕉久久夜色精品国产尤物 | 在线国产一区二区 | 美女毛片在线观看 | 亚洲码在线观看 | 亚洲精品一区二区综合 | 国产精品第五页 | 国产永久免费高清动作片www | 国产欧美专区在线观看 | 欧美一级毛片美99毛片 | 顶级毛片在线手机免费看 | 亚洲一区在线观看视频 | 国产精品成人观看视频网站 | 一级美国片免费看 | 日韩看片| 国产成人精品aaaa视频一区 | 亚洲精品综合一区二区三区 | 成人自拍小视频 | 久久免费国产精品一区二区 | 九九色视频在线观看 | 日韩午夜精品 | 欧美在线a级高清 |