Theater
Founded in 2008 to nurture young artists, the Taipei Fringe Festival (台北藝穗節) celebrates its third edition with a lineup of more than 250 performances by 70 theatrical companies at venues across the city. The festival starts tomorrow and runs through Sept. 12. For more information, go to www.taipeifringe.org.
■ Venues include Ecole Cafe (學校咖啡館) at 6, Ln 1, Chingtien St, Taipei City (台北市青田街1巷6號); Wolong 29 (臥龍貳玖) at 29, Ln 136, Heping E Rd Sec 2, Taipei City (台北市和平東路二段136巷29號); Somebody Cafe (貳拾陸巷) at 2F-3F, 131 Xining S Rd, Taipei City (台北市西寧南路131號2-3樓); Taipei Stock (倉庫藝文空間) at 3F, 34, Bade Rd Sec 1, Taipei City (台北市八德路一段34號3F)
■ Visit the festival Web site for performance times
As part of the 12th Taipei Arts Festival (第十二屆台北藝術節), Mint, Rosemary and the Flower With No Name (薄荷、迷迭香和不知名的花) by Slow Island Theatre Group (慢島劇團) tells of modern love affairs between one man and two women.
■ Zhongshan Hall (台北市中山堂), 98 Yanping S Rd, Taipei City (台北市延平南路98號)
■ Tonight at 7:45pm, tomorrow
at 2:45pm and 7:45pm and Sunday
at 2:45pm
■ Tickets are NT$500, available
through NTCH ticketing or online at www.artsticket.com.tw
Now in its fifth year, Taipei Tap Festival (台北踢踏節) is hosting tap artists from home and abroad in Taipei and Kaohsiung tomorrow and on Sunday respectively. Performers include the internationally renowned Derick K. Grant, Jason Samuels Smith from the US and Japan’s Yukiko Misumi. For more information, go to www.taipeitap.com.tw.
■ Red House Theater (西門紅樓), 10 Chengdu Rd, Taipei City (台北市成都路10號) and Kaohsiung Cultural Center’s Chih-teh 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)
■ Tomorrow at 2:30pm and 7:30pm, Sunday at 7:30pm
BY DIANE BAKER
Zen drumming troupe U-Theatre (優劇場) is saying a “goodbye for now” to the first graduates from its youth performing group, who will be going off to university next month. The teenagers have produced their own graduation performance, entitled Field Hands (手中田), which opens tonight at the company’s Laoquanshan (老泉山) base in Muzha.
The theme of the show comes from the upland rice they planted on the mountain in May. Now the rice is ready to harvest.
U-Theatre founder-director Liu Ruo-yu (劉若瑀) and her husband, drumming director Huang Chih-chun (黃誌群), will be among the proud parents watching the show — their daughter is one of the graduates. As usual, U-Theatre is encouraging audience members not to drive up the mountain, but to take one of the U-Theatre shuttle buses from the Taipei Zoo MRT Station, exit No. 2.
Tonight, tomorrow and Sunday at 7:30pm at the U-Theatre Mountain Theater (優人劇場山上劇場), 30, Ln 26, Laoquan St, Muzha, Taipei City (台北市木柵老泉街26巷30號)
Tickets are NT$900; only seats for Sunday night are left, available online at www.artsticket.com.tw or by calling (02) 2938-8138
■ Tickets are NT$500 to NT$800, available through NTCH ticketing or online at www.artsticket.com.tw
The International Ballet Star Gala returns to the capital for the fourth time with a lineup of 14 ballet stars from eight of the world’s most prestigious ballet companies, including Denis Matvienko from the Mariinsky Theater, Iana Salenko from Staatsballett Berlin and Rupert Pennefather from the Royal Ballet of London.
■ National Theater, Taipei City
■ Tomorrow at 7pm and Sunday
at 2:30pm
■ Tickets are NT$1,600 to NT$3,000 for tomorrow, NT$1,200 to NT$6,000 for Sunday, available through the NTCH box office or online at www.artsticket.com
Female poet, musician and academic Yen Ai-lin (顏艾琳) teams up Theatre Company of Leeqingzhao the Private (李清照私人劇團) for The Uncolour (無色三色), a solo performance starring Yen exploring herself as a woman, daughter, wife, mother and an artist.
■ Taipei County Arts Center (台北縣藝文中心演藝廳), 62 Jhuangjing Rd, Banciao City, Taipei County (台北縣板橋市莊敬路62號)
■ Tomorrow at 7:30pm
■ Tickets are NT$300, available online at tickets.books.com.tw
Classical music
Sword in the Water (出水靈劍), a performance by Ten Drum Percussion Art Group (十鼓擊樂團), combines percussion, martial arts and theater in a multifaceted performance. The production tells a story of self-discovery through the practice of art. The troupe will present 12 performances of this production, opening at the Tainan City Municipal Cultural Center Performance Hall (台南市立文化中心演藝廳), but with the majority at their Ten Drum Culture Village (十鼓文化村) home base.
■ Today and tomorrow 7:30pm (Performance Hall); Sunday at 1:30pm (Cultural Village)
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