Wind Shadows dance

If you’re a fan of Taiwan’s cloud gate dance theatre or just plain Dance theatre,you won’t want to miss wind shadow,a stunning contemporary dance performance by Asia’s leading contemporary dance company.An experimental fusion of installation art and dance,it is the result of a groundbreaking collaboration between internationally renowned choreographer Lin Hwai-Min and leading Chinese visual artist Cai Guo-Qiang,the visual director of the 2008 Beijing Olympics festivities.In this study of motion created through the monochromatic palettes of black and white and the use of light and shade,shadows come to life against projections of gunpowder drawings and a haunting saoundscape as the dancers exhibiting the assured stillness and disciplined precision of taiji daoyin(an ancient form of qigong),meditation,martial arts,modern dance,ballet and calligraphy,capture both the intangible lightness of the wind and the variable structure of wandering shadows.Laundede as a “brilliant coup de theatre”when it opened the dance umbrella season in London last year,wind shadow plays at the esplanade theatre as part of the 2010 singapore arts festival on 25 and 26 May.

Resource:Reader Digest May 2010 (pg141)