Highlight
 |
| OrBe is a jazz duo that performs original compositions inspired by modern jazz and French musette. PHOTOS COURTESY OF JEREMY PAULIN |
| Tomorrow night, two French music groups on tour in Taiwan, orBe and VOY, perform at the Huaden Art Center (華燈藝術中心) in Tainan. OrBe, a jazz duo of trombonist Olivier Baron and guitarist Olivier Roussel, plays jazz in a minimalist style, while VOY is the musical project of solo singer and pianist Veronique Truffot, who performs with two dancers. Truffot improvises when she sings — her “words” are not real, but rather ad-libbed. The meanings of her songs come from the “emotional sounds” that she sings. The two dancers, Daphne Abecassis and Pauline Meguerditchian, who also perform as the Item Company, provide a visual presentation of Truffot’s music. In several numbers the dancers are tethered to the piano by ropes, making them appear to be physically linked to Truffot. The two groups also perform in Chiayi at the Beirong Church at 10:30pm, after the morning service. ▲ VOY and orBe: live jazz and dance performances tomorrow at 7pm at the Huaden Art Center (華燈藝術中心), 85 Shengli Rd, Tainan City (台南市勝利路85號), call (06) 222-2587, and tomorrow at 10:30am at Beirong Church (北榮長老教會), 266 Sirong St, Chiayi City (嘉義市西榮街266號) ▲ Admission is free ▲ On the Net: VOY, www.myspace.com/veroniquetruffotcompositions and www.myspace.com/compagnie_item; orBe, www.myspace.com/orbepaca |
Theater
Water, cobwebs, bubbles and dry ice are some of the methods Slava’s Snow Show uses to wow audiences. There are also clowns and a snow blizzard of confetti that blankets the audience in this award-winning tragicomedy that follows the life of a clown who tries to find meaning in a hostile world.
▲ Taichung Chungshan Hall (台中市中山堂), 98 Hsuehshi Rd, Taichung City (台中市學士路98號)
▲ Today, tomorrow and Sunday at 7:30pm and tomorrow and Sunday at 2:30pm
▲ Tickets are NT$1,000 to NT$3,000, available through NTCH ticketing
An early Hakka and Hoklo (commonly known as Taiwanese) musical, April Rain (四月望雨) returns to the stage tomorrow. The multilingual performance — Hoklo, Hakka, Mandarin and Japanese — is based on the life of Teng Yu-sian (鄧雨賢), a Japanese-colonial era composer who has been hailed as the father of Taiwanese folk music. Teng is portrayed as an artist caught between different cultures and torn between idealism and reality.
▲ Tainan Municipal Cultural Center (台南市立文化中心), 332, Chunghua E Rd Sec 3, Tainan City (台南市中華東路三段332號)
▲ Tomorrow at 7:30pm and Sunday at 2:30pm
▲ Tickets are NT$300 to NT$2,500, available through NTCH ticketingWho is the fairest of them all? Song Song Song Children’s & Puppet Theater (九歌兒童劇團) has adapted Snow White into a story of unrequited love in A Dwarf Who Loved Snow White (愛上白雪公主的小矮人), a children’s performance that sees one of the seven dwarfs falling in love with the kingdom’s fairest princess.
▲ Jhongli Arts Center (中壢藝術館), 16 Jhungmei Rd, Jhongli City (中壢市中美路16號)
▲ Tomorrow at 2:30pm and 7:30pm
▲ Tickets are NT$300 to NT$800, available through NTCH ticketing
Classical music
Passion & Despair — Victor Coo & Yahsin Wu in a Concert
(Passion & Despair — 維多.高與吳亞欣音樂會) features Victor Coo on cello and Wu Yahsin on piano performing a program that includes Shostakovich’s Sonata for Cello and Piano in D Minor, Op.40, Rachmaninoff’s Sonata for Violoncello and Piano in G Minor, Op.19 and Piazzolla’s Le Grand Tango for Violoncello and Piano.
RSS