Taipei Dance Circle's(光環舞集) new performance
The group was founded in 1992 by Liou Shaw-lu (劉紹爐), former member of Cloud Gate Dance Theater (雲門舞集). It has since been putting on acclaimed performances worldwide and won the German Ludwig Foundation's Award for Innovation in the Performing Arts in 1996. Liou's major innovation is the use of baby oil on dancers to turn the dancers movements into what appears like gliding and rolling.
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Hell (地獄) surprises the audience with dazzling aluminium foil as its backdrop and floor. The six nearly nude dancers writh and coil on this silver stage alternately lit in flaming red and icy blue. The slightest movement draws thunderous noise from the aluminium foil, which echoes around the theater hall, evoking images of bubbling furnaces and erupting volcanoes.
There being no music throughout the dance, performers chant monotones as if groaning. They move like blind people on the aluminium foil, which sometimes caves in to cause “avalanches,” sending the dancers rolling in all directions.
Water takes up the main stage in
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