- Date 2005-11-19
- Venue The National Concert Hall
Wild Cursive
Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan
Jury's Comments for the Performing Arts Award Winner
Wild Cursive by Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan introduces calligraphy into the art of dance, interpreting an ancient aesthetic tradition through contemporary practice. The awe-inspiring dance makes excellent use of Taichi, martial arts and music to create a riveting aesthetic that is whole and innovative.
Wild Cursive obliterates the physical duality of slowness and quickness, motion and stillness, height and lowliness, and transcends the dialectics of masculinity and femininity, imagination and reality, the inner and the outer, the East and the West. It arrives at a realm where strict discipline embodies complete freedom. The final work in the Cursive trilogy reaches a new peak in modern dance and showcases the choreographer’s, continued quest for a new dance idiom. Without a doubt, his unparallelled achievement serves as an important benchmark for Taiwan and the world.
Artwork Introduction
Wild Cursive by Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan introduces calligraphy into the art of dance, interpreting an ancient aesthetic tradition through contemporary practice. The awe-inspiring dance makes excellent use of Taichi, martial arts and music to create a riveting aesthetic that is whole and innovative.
Wild Cursive obliterates the physical duality of slowness and quickness, motion and stillness, height and lowliness, and transcends the dialectics of masculinity and femininity, imagination and reality, the inner and the outer, the East and the West. It arrives at a realm where strict discipline embodies complete freedom. The final work in the Cursive trilogy reaches a new peak in modern dance and showcases the choreographer’s, continued quest for a new dance idiom. Without a doubt, his unparallelled achievement serves as an important benchmark for Taiwan and the world.
