Theater
Internationally renowned British choreographer Wayne McGregor presents Entity, created by his company Random Dance. McGregor explores the relationship between brain and body in the abstract dance performance.
▲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
Firefly Theater (螢火蟲劇團) celebrates the 30th anniversary of Lanling Theatre Workshop (蘭陵劇坊), Taiwan’s pioneering experimental theater troupe, with Count to Three (數到三), which takes a sobering look at children who have been subjected to domestic violence. The play is not suitable for children under six. Kids aged between seven and 12 must be accompanied by an adult.
▲Red House Theater (紅樓劇場), 10 Chengdu Rd, Taipei City (台北市成都路10號)
▲Tonight at 7:30pm, tomorrow at 2:30pm and 7:30pm
▲Tickets are NT$400, available through NTCH ticketing or online at
www.artsticket.com.tw
Happiness Part III — Forget Me Not (浮浪貢開花3 — 勿忘影中人), the latest installment of Golden Bough Theatre’s (金枝演社) Happiness (浮浪貢開花) series, which began life four years ago, is a light-hearted, comic musical that tells the story of a young bohemian and his search for happiness.
▲Chunghsing Concert Hall, Taichung (台中中興堂), 291-3 Chingwu Rd, Taichung City (台中市精武路291之3號)
▲Tonight and tomorrow at 7:30pm
▲Tickets are NT$300 and NT$1,100, available through NTCH ticketing or online at www.artsticket.com.tw
Kaohsiung City Ballet’s (高雄城市芭蕾舞團) The Peony Pavilion (牡丹亭), inspired by Tang Xia-zu’s (湯顯祖) tale of the same name, returns with a national tour that starts tomorrow night at the Metropolitan Hall in Taipei. The piece premiered in 2007.
“The ho must go on” is one of the mottos of the Rock in Hose Burlesque, whose members don fishnet stockings and corsets, among different costumes, for two performances at Bliss tomorrow night.
Entitled Rendezvous, the show is a two-act showcase of the group’s material, which satirizes “sex, sexuality, gender norms” and “anything that takes sexuality too seriously,” reads the group’s MySpace bio.
The five-piece troupe hit the ground running since its performance in March. The group made a splash at rock parties around the island, including Spring Scream and the Urban Nomad Film Festival’s opening party.
Rock in Hose created new material for tomorrow’s show, which includes renditions of “classic turn-ons.”
Space is limited at Bliss, so Rock in Hose is holding two shows, each limited to 50 persons for seating considerations. After the final show, there will be a party with games, prizes, a “Wheel of Torture” and a “sexy gifts” raffle.
▲Rock in Hose Burlesque show at Bliss, 148, Xinyi Rd Sec 4, Taipei City (台北市信義路四段148號)
▲Tomorrow at 8pm and 10pm
▲NT$350, includes entrance to one show, after party at 11:30pm and one drink. Limited seating of 50 persons per show; tickets available at Toasteria, 2, Ln 248, Zhongxiao E Rd Sec 4, Taipei City (台北市忠孝東路四段248巷2號); entrance to the after-party only is NT$250
Carreras, Domingo and Pavarotti they are not. But these “desperate tenors,” who perform tomorrow night at Zhongshan Hall (中山堂) in Taipei, take their cue from the most famous opera trio ever by aiming for a wider audience.
In other words, this won’t be a typical night at the opera. Desperate Tenors (三大男高音 — 山寨版本) promises some campy, self-deprecating humor to accompany earnest performances from Taiwanese tenors Chang Yao-wen (張耀文) and Kung Hsiao-cheng (孔孝誠) and Filipino tenor Vicente Fortunato Moran.
The performance is being organized by the Taipei Philharmonic Foundation for Culture and Education (TPF, 台北愛樂文教基金會) and the Taipei Philharmonic Chorus (台北愛樂合唱團).
▲Desperate Tenors at 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$300 to NT$1,200, available through NTCH ticketing or online at www.artsticket.com.tw
▲Metropolitan Hall (城市舞台), 25, Bade Rd Sec 3, Taipei City (台北市八德路三段25號).
▲Tomorrow at 7:30pm and Sunday at 2:30pm
▲Tickets are NT$400 to NT$1,000, available through NTCH ticketing or online at www.artsticket.com.tw
A bank robbery takes place in Taiwan Drama Performance’s (台灣戲劇表演家) Shifu (師父). Among the hostages: an award-winning school teacher, a Henan opera star, a martial-arts master, a bakery owner and a pregnant woman. The question: Who has the right to decide who should survive?
▲Kaohsiung Chihteh Hall (高雄至德堂), 67 Wufu 1st Rd, Kaohsiung City (高雄市五福一路67號) for this weekend’s shows; National Taiwan Arts Education Center (國立台灣藝術教育館本部及演藝廳), 47 Nanhai Rd, Taipei City (台北市南海路47號) on Wednesday and Thursday.
▲Tonight at 7:30pm and tomorrow at 2:30pm and 7:30pm in Kaohsiung, Wednesday at 7:30pm and Thursday at 2:30pm and 7:30pm in Taipei
▲Tickets are NT$250 to NT$1,200, available through ERA ticketing or online at www.ticket.com.tw
Classical music
2009 Jazz All Stars — Duke Ellington Orchestra (艾靈頓公爵大樂團) brings one of the all-time great big bands to perform two concerts in Taiwan, in Taipei and Kaohsiung under band leader Paul Ellington. The program includes jazz classics such as Mood Indigo, It Don’t Mean a Thing and Don’t Get Around Much Anymore.
▲Tuesday (Taipei) and Wednesday (Kaohsiung), at 7:30pm
▲National Concert Hall, Taipei City and Kaohsiung Cultural Center’s Chihteh Hall (高雄市立文化中心至德堂), 67 Wufu 1st Rd, Kaohsiung City, (高雄市五福一路67號)
▲Tickets are NT$800 to NT$3,600 for Taipei and NT$800 to NT$3,000 for Kaohsiung and are available through ERA ticketing or online at
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