Theater
Of Man and Object (人物語) is a modern dance performance by Taipei Dance Circle (光環舞集). Founder and choreographer Liou Shaw-lu (劉紹爐) usually drenches his dancers in baby oil before setting them loose to glide about the stage, but this time he's wrapped his dancers in what he calls sponges. The dancers roll up, roll out, bend and twist, constrained by their wrappings yet free to create forms, angles and movements that they could not do using bodies alone. A score played by seven live musicians accompanies the performance.
*Taipei National University of the Arts (國立臺北藝術大學音樂廳), 1 Xueyuan Rd, Beitou Dist, Taipei (北市北投區學園路1號)
*Today and tomorrow at 7:30pm
*Tickets are NT$250 and are available through NTCH ticketing or online at www.artstickets.com.tw
The Passage (祕徑) by Sun Son Theater (身聲演繹劇場) is a unique performance that combines percussion with dance in the spiritually uplifting Bamboo Curtain Studio in Danshui.
*Bamboo Studio Theater (竹圍工作室), 39, Ln 88, Chungcheng E Rd Sec 2, Danshui, Taipei County (台北縣淡水鎮中正東路二段88巷39號)
*Today, tomorrow and Sunday at 7:30pm
*Tickets are NT$300 and are available through NTCH ticketing or online at www.artsticket.com.tw
This is Tainan's last chance to see Godot Theater's (果陀劇場) Communicating Doors (開錯門中門). Based on the play by Alan Ayckbourn, this screwball comedy takes place in a five-star hotel where an elderly man is about to confess to complicity in murder. But when his business partner catches wind of the plan, he attempts to foil the confession.
*Tainan Municipal Cultural Center Performance Hall (台南市立文化中心演藝廳), 332, Chunghua E Rd Sec 3, Tainan City (台南市中華東路三段332號)
*Tomorrow at 7:30pm
*Tickets are NT$300 to NT$1,900 and are available through ERA ticketing or online at www.ticket.com.tw
Italian Puppet Show: Sandrone (桑得羅尼) by Taiyuan Puppet Theater (台原偶戲團). The performance follows the humorous buffoonery and exploits of the tall and wickedly intelligent Fagiolino and his short, daft friend Sandrone, the Laurel and Hardy of the puppet theater.
*Nadou Theater (納豆劇場), 79 Xining N Rd, Taipei (台北市西寧北路79號)
*Tomorrow at 3pm
*Tickets are NT$200 and are available through NTCH ticketing or online at www.artsticket.com.tw
Event
Though last week's typhoon washed out the Taipei Salon, it didn't dampen Rudolf Wagner's desire to speak on his chosen topic: German Unification: Popular Culture, Maoist Students and the Socialist Disneyland. The topic of last week's canceled Salon remains the same, and will be held tomorrow at Zhongshan Hall. One of Europe's foremost Sinologists, Wagner has extensively researched Buddhism, Taoist philosophy and contemporary Chinese politics and media.
*Zhongshan Hall (台北市中山堂), 98 Yenping S Rd, Taipei (台北市延平南路98號)
*Tomorrow from 2pm to 5pm
*Lectures are conducted in English with simultaneous interpretation in Chinese; admission is free but those attending must preregister by phoning (02) 3322-4907, or at www.civictaipei.org
Classical
Tchaikovsky Cycle 3: Pathetique (NSO 發現柴科夫斯基3 - 悲愴絕響) continues the NSO's journey through the music of the great Romantic composer with a program featuring his Pathetique Symphony No. 6 in B Minor. Also on the program is Tchaikovsky's Marche Slave and Szymanovski's Violin Concerto No. 1. Chien Wen-pin (簡文彬) will conduct with Li I-ching (李宜錦) as soloist on violin.
*Sunday 2:30pm
*National Concert Hall, Taipei
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