Theater
Canadian theater company Lemieux.Pilon 4D Art uses innovative virtual technology in Norman, a multimedia production that combines elements of theater, dance, cinema and music to examine the life of award-winning animator and filmmaker Norman McLaren. Directed by Michel Lemieux and Victor Pilon, the work combines film and animation in a solo piece where dancer and choreographer Peter Trosztmer interacts with projected images.
▲National Theater, Taipei City
▲Today and tomorrow at 7:30pm, Sunday at 2:30pm
▲Tickets are NT$500 to NT$2,500, available through available through NTCH ticketing or online at www.artsticket.com.tw
Italian theater company Compagnia T.P.O. fuses dance, visual art, mechanical installation and lighting effects in The Japanese Garden, an interactive children’s theatrical play.
▲National Experimental Theater, Taipei City
▲Today at 5pm and 8pm, tomorrow at 10:30am, 2:30pm and 8pm, Sunday at 10:30am and 2:30pm
▲Tickets are NT$600, available through available through NTCH ticketing or online at www.artsticket.com.tw
Choreographer Jade Hua (華碧玉) combines a classical approach with modern techniques in Jade & Artists Dance Troupe’s (肢體音符舞團) latest dance, Vipashyana. [See story on Page 15.]
▲Novel Hall (新舞臺), 3-1 Songshou S Rd, Taipei City (台北市松壽路3-1號)
▲Today and tomorrow at 7:30pm
▲Tickets are NT$500 to NT$1,000, available through NTCH ticketing or online at www.artsticket.com.tw
Stand-up comedy meets the musical in My Goodness!!??, a lighthearted and humorous examination of Taiwan’s consumption of American culture staged by Yumiko’s Warehouse Theater (裕美子的倉庫劇團).
▲Crown Art Center Theater (皇冠小劇場), B1, 50, Ln 120, Dunhua N Rd, Taipei City (台北市敦化北路120巷50號B1)
Japanese bossa nova singer Lisa Ono’s Asian tour brings her to Taipei’s Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall (國父紀念館) tomorrow night.
The 46-year-old singer and guitarist has released more than 20 albums to date, and her latest project is a pair of albums of jazz standards: Cheek to Cheek — Jazz Standards From Rio and Look to the Rainbow — Jazz Standards From LA. Ono, who was born in Sao Paulo, started playing at the age of 15 and helped popularize bossa nova in Japan. She has recorded with legends such as Antonio Carlos Jobim and jazz samba musician Joao Donato.
Ono enjoys a strong following in Taiwan. Her album, Jambalaya — Bossa Americana, went platinum in 2007, and Taipei is a regular stop for her regional tours. While concert promoter Yukuang Music (余光音樂) declined to say what material Ono would be playing, audiences tomorrow should expect more of the same — a top-notch band backing Ono’s intimate, smooth voice. For more on Lisa Ono, visit her Web site at www.onolisa.com.
▲Lisa Ono at Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall (國父紀念館), 2F, 505, Renai Rd Sec 4, Taipei City (台北市仁愛路四段505號2樓)
▲Tomorrow at 7:30pm
▲Tickets are NT$600 to NT$3,600, available through ERA ticketing or online at www.ticket.com.tw
▲Today at 7:30pm, tomorrow at 2:30pm and 7:30pm and Sunday at 2:30pm
▲Tickets are NT$350, available through NTCH ticketing or online at www.artsticket.com.tw
Based on British playwright Timberlake Wertenbaker’s play of the same title, After Darwin by MOVE Theatre Group (動見体劇團) dramatizes Charles Darwin’s idea of survival of the fittest in this play-within-a-play centered around conflicts between Darwin and Robert FitzRoy, the Bible-toting captain of the HMS Beagle, and the two actors who play the respective characters.
▲National Taiwan University Theater (台大劇場), 1, Roosevelt Rd Sec 4, Taipei City (台北市羅斯福路段四段1號)
▲Today at 7:30pm, tomorrow at 2:30pm and 7:30pm and Sunday at 2:30pm
▲Admission is free
Classical
In Zheng Recital Over the Stars (眼神與星空的對話), zheng specialists Fan Wei-tzu (樊慰慈) and Huang Wen-ling (黃文玲) share the stage with Little Giant Chinese Chamber Orchestra (小巨人絲竹樂團) to present arrangements of traditional works and the world premiere of Fan’s Spirit of the Eyes (眼神).
▲National Recital Hall, Taipei City
▲Tomorrow at 7:30pm
▲Tickets are NT$300 to NT$700, available through NTCH ticketing or online at www.artsticket.com.tw
Sounds From Pampas (彭巴斯草原之音) presents harpist Giselle Boeters, who will perform with the Taipei Symphony Orchestra (臺北市立交響樂團) under guest conductor Georg Fritzsch. The program will include Kagel’s Variations Without Fugue, Ginastera’s Harp Concerto, Op. 25 and Debussy’s Images Pour Orchestre.
▲Zhongshan Hall (台北市中山堂), 98 Yenping S Rd, Taipei City (台北市延平南路98號)
▲Tomorrow at 7:30pm
▲Tickets are NT$200 to NT$800, available through NTCH ticketing or online at www.artsticket.com.tw
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