About the performance:
        China's latest modern dance group TAO Dance Theater is taking the scene by a storm. Since its fouding in 2008, TAO has already performed in every modern dance festival throughout China and this fall is featured in Brussels, Belgium as part of the prestigious bi-annual "Europalia" festival.
 
      The founder, Tao Ye, is "l'enfant terrible" of China's modern dance world. He used to dance with Jin Xing in Shanghai, then with Beijing Modern Dance Company, and then decided he was tired of the same old scene and could do it better than any of them so has launched out on his own. Duan Ni, one of the other dancers in his group, has just returned from two years in London with renowned Akram Khan Modern Dance Company and then in New York for two years with Shen Wei Dance Arts.

    Choreographer's Remarks: "This night of works is composed of three pieces, each of a slightly different form but all of a related style, choreographed over the course of a year. Rather than view this as a performance made up of three pieces, instead we hope the audience will see it as a reflection of our company’s experience this year. When we share our experience with the audience, each audience member will then have their own feelings about what they see, and this in turn will create a new story, one that brings the performance and the audience’s experience together, and thereby creates new meaning.

     No specific words can express the meaning of tonight’s performance. Rather, these pieces are permeated with our conceptions of “body” and physical practice. So what your eyes perceive is exactly what our hearts hope to express."