Theater
Renowned Japanese performance
duo Eiko Otake and Takashi Koma Otake, generally known as Eiko and Koma, open the 2009 Novel Dance series with Cambodian Stories.
The multi-disciplinary performance, which highlights the duo’s unique style of theater that makes use of
light, shape, movement and
stillness, began when the artists collaborated with art students in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, in 2004. [See story on Page 13.]
▲Novel Hall (新舞臺), 3-1 Songshou Rd, Taipei City (台北市松壽路3-1號)
▲Tonight and tomorrow at 8pm, Sunday at 3pm
▲Tickets are NT$500 to NT$2,000, available through ERA ticketing or online at www.ticket.com.tw
Inspired by a short story penned by best-selling Chinese author Li Yu (李漁) during the early Qing Dynasty, He Is My Wife, He Is My Mother (少年金釵男孟母) by Creative Society Theatre Company (創作社劇團) updates Li’s cross-gender spectacle with a 21st-century sensitivity and wit. The play is performed in Mandarin with English subtitles.
▲Metropolitan Hall (城市舞台), 25, Bade Rd Sec 3, Taipei City (台北市八德路三段25號).
▲Tonight at 7:30pm, tomorrow at 2:30pm and 7:3pm and Sunday at 2:30pm
▲Tickets are NT$500 to NT$3,000, available through NTCH ticketing or online at www.artsticket.com.tw
As part of the ongoing celebrations for the 30th anniversary of Lanling Theatre Workshop (蘭陵劇坊), a pioneering experimental theater troupe, Uhan Shii Theatre Group (歡喜扮戲團) extols women’s sexuality in Cat Walk Awakening (貓仔走醒), which blends Taiwanese ballads with Hakka mountain songs, a genre known for its direct expression of desires and passions.
Red House Theater (紅樓劇場), 10 Chengdu Rd, Wanhua Dist, Taipei City (台北市萬華區成都路10號)
▲Tonight at 7:30pm, tomorrow at 2:30pm and 7:3pm and Sunday at 2:30pm
▲Tickets are NT$400, available through NTCH ticketing or online at
▲www.artsticket.com.tw
For Crystal Tun-Hwang (水晶瓶中的敦煌), Jade and Artists Dance Troupe’s (肢體音符舞團) latest production, the group’s artistic director and choreographer, Hsu Yu-ju (徐玉如), teamed up with music producer Lin Lung-hsuan (林隆璇) and flutist Eric Chang (張中立) to present a spiritual journey of self-discovery inspired by the murals found inside the Caves of the Thousand Buddhas in Gansu Province, China.
▲Zhongshan Hall (台北市中山堂), 98 Yenping S Rd, Taipei City (台北市延平南路98號).
▲Tonight at 7:30pm
▲Tickets are NT$200 and NT$800, available through NTCH ticketing or online at www.artsticket.com.tw
U-Theatre brings its six-part ode to its Laoquanshan (老泉山) home, The Mountain Dawn (入夜山嵐), to Taichung this weekend for two performances. The production is a contemplative reflection on the tranquil life the group’s members lead on the mountain.
▲Taichung Chungshan Hall (台中中山堂), 98 Hsuehsi Rd, Taichung City (台中市學士路98號)
▲Tonight and tomorrow at 7:30pm
▲Tickets are NT$400 to NT$2,000, available through NTCH ticketing or online at www.artsticket.com.tw
Classical music
Main Stadium Inauguration Concert — The World Games Concert 2009(2009 迎接世運之夜 — 世運主場館落成音樂會)
opens the new sports venue with a concert featuring the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra under Manfred Honeck, the Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor under Ioan Holender and Taiwan’s National Experimental Orchestra (國立實驗合唱團) performing a program that includes Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture, and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92 and Symphony
▲No. 9 in D-Minor, Op. 125 — Finale Ode to Joy.
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