Name: 13 \u0026 14 | Dance | Esplanade
Start: 2023-10-13
End: 2023-10-15
Location: Singtel Waterfront Theatre at Esplanade

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13 Oct 2023(Fri) - 15 Oct(Sun)

Location:Singtel Waterfront Theatre at Esplanade

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8 Raffles Ave, Singapore 039802

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13 & 14 | Dance Information

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After their sold-out performance at da:ns festival nine years ago, the acclaimed TAO Dance Theater takes the stage at Esplanade once again, this time on a grander scale with 14 dancers at the Singtel Waterfront Theatre. The award-winning contemporary dance company presents a double bill of 13 and 14, the two latest instalments of choreographer Tao Ye’s signature Numerical Series. Known for their distinct minimalist stye of repetition and restriction, TAO has found immense success worldwide and is recognised as one of Asia’s leading contemporary dance companies.

This production is presented as part of da:ns focus – Connect Asia Now (CAN), a weekend that spotlights contemporary dance works by Asian artists focusing on distinct voices and creative impulses from the region.

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About 13

13 is the twelfth instalment of choreographer Tao Ye’s Numerical Series. This contemplative work uses the concept of a trinity to correspond to the number 13, and examines the interactions and connections formed between solo, duet and group dances. These three kinds of permutations constitute the entire creation.

The concepts of single, dual and multiple dimensions form a rule. In this creation, the chorographer cultivated the three changes of body, space, and time to form a chaotic whole. Rigorous and open concepts are used in the choreography to respond to the different states of the present concrete and the impermanent.

In the work, the dancers are connected into a whole, and then gradually fission into different forms. The continuous changes in the dance sequence during the movement open up a complex physical world: the realisation of impact, extrusion, fusion, and falling, rebound, pull and other infinite phenomena. Through varying speeds and rhythms, the bodies are transformed into water, mountains, rocks and all things alike. At this time, the body as a medium, demonstrates the vagaries of imagination.

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Production Credits

Choreographer: Tao Ye

Composer: Xiao He

Lighting Designers: Ma Yue, Tao Ye

Costume Designer: Duan Ni

Costume Maker: Dnty

About 14

Rhythm is the linkage of all life.

14, the thirteenth work of Tao Ye’s Numerical Series presents a study of rhythm and change. How does one challenge the new context of the body? This time, Tao Ye, breaks the previous creative method of repeated cycles, and uses the ever-changing texture of movement to explore the space-time possibility between movement and stillness.

The music of this work boldly adopts a single minimalist well-balanced temperament, using the progressive method of the hour hand to correspond to the complex dynamics of the body in dance. The cuttings and foldings of points, lines and planes in the space, the agitation and swing with the control of weight, make the work return to pure body movement, with all possibilities unfolding in a changing yet unchanged rhythm.

Following the philosophy of “less is more” in regard to the relationship between audio and visual, TAO Dance Theater’s unique body technique, the Circular Movement System, is expanded and realises its ultimate potential.

Production Credits

Choreographer & Sound Conception: Tao Ye

Lighting Designers: Ma Yue, Tao Ye

Costume Designer: Duan Ni