THEATER
Decode 2010 (亂碼2010) by Ku & Dancers (古舞團) probes the subconscious. The score was composed and will be played by Claudia Howard Queen from Chicago.
■ Experimental Theater, Taipei City
■ 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
The Xinbei City International Arts Festival (2010新北市藝術節) ends with two performances by the Melbourne-based Tom Tom Crew that show off the performance art group’s signature mix of circus routines, acrobatics, drumming and hip-hop.
■ East Riverside Plaza (東岸廣場), Bitan, Sindian, Taipei County (台北縣新店碧潭)
■ Tomorrow and Sunday at 7:30pm
■ Free admission
Born of a collaboration between artist Chen Chun-ming (陳俊明) and Jelly Fish Bloc, a group composed of artists from Taiwan, Thailand, France and Spain, and billed as an interdisciplinary interactive performance, Hold Down integrates installation art, digital sound and performance to explore the human body as a field of contest.
■ Barry Room, Taipei Artist Village (台北國際藝術村百里廳), 7 Beiping E Rd, Taipei City (台北市北平東路7號)
■ Tonight at 7:30pm, tomorrow and Sunday at 2:30pm
■ Tickets are NT$150 at the door
Set up in 2008 by local fire dancers to promote their pastime, the Taiwan Fire Festival (台灣火舞祭) comprises a lineup of individual performances and group shows by popular troupes such as the True Spin Fire Group (TS火舞團), Orange Fire (橘火舞團) and Kundalini. An outdoor art fair and fire dancing workshop will be held before tomorrow evening’s performances. For more information, log on at
log.roodo.com/taiwan_fire_festival
■ Museum of Contemporary Art’s plaza (台北當代藝術館廣場), 39 Changan W Rd, Taipei City (台北市長安西路39號)
The National Concert Hall’s (國家音樂廳) summer jazz season continues tonight with a performance by American saxophonist Joshua Redman and his trio.
Redman, 41, broke onto the scene almost 20 years ago when he won the Thelonius Monk International Saxophone Competition. Today the Berkeley-born, Harvard graduate is one of the most highly acclaimed saxophonists in contemporary jazz, and has toured or recorded with Chick Corea, Brad Mehldau, Pat Methany and his father, the late, renowned saxophonist Dewey Redman.
The younger Redman has recorded more than a dozen albums, several of which have been nominated for Grammy awards. He performs tonight with Matt Penman on bass and Greg Hutchison on drums.
Joshua Redman Trio, tonight from 7:30pm, at the National Concert Hall(國家音樂廳), 21-1 Zhongshan S Rd, Taipei City (台北市中山南路21-1號)
Admission: NT$1,200 and NT$1,600 (all other seats sold out), available at the venue or through NTCH ticketing or online at www.artsticket.com.tw
On the Net: www.joshuaredman.com
By David Chen
■ Performances run from 7:30pm to 10:30pm
■ Tickets are NT$400 for the workshop, free admission for the performances
Adapted from the renowned Singaporean playwright Kuo Pao Kun’s (郭寶昆) The Spirits Play (靈戲), The Mother Hen Next Door (隔離的大母雞) by EX-Theatre Asia (EX-亞洲劇團) explores political repression, war and death in the form of a fable about a giant hen that can’t stop eating and winds up devouring its own torso, neck and head.
■ 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)
■ Tuesday and Wednesday at 7:30pm, Thursday at 7pm and 8:30pm
■ Tickets are NT$350, available through NTCH ticketing or online at www.artsticket.com.tw
CLASSICAL MUSIC
Timeless Love Concert (時空情人音樂會), part of the 2010 Taipei Arts Festival (2010臺北藝術節), brings together two highly respected artists from two vastly different musical traditions: Wang Xinxin (王心心), one of the most respected practitioners of the ancient Chinese nanguan (南管) musical style, and Chien Wen-pin (簡文彬), who was responsible for molding Taiwan’s National Symphony Orchestra (國家交響樂團) into an international powerhouse. In Timeless Love Concert, Wang and Chien, who will serve as pianist, will perform with tenor Tilman Lichdi. The program includes arrangements of classical Chinese poetry and music, as well as a Chinese translation and arrangement of Schumann’s Dichterliebe.
■ Today and tomorrow at 7:45pm, Sunday at 2:30pm
■ Zhongshan Hall (台北市中山堂), 98 Yanping S Rd, Taipei City (台北市延平南路98號)
■ Tickets are NT$1,000, available through NTCH ticketing or online at www.artsticket.com.tw
Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (秋水伊人) is a piano recital by Wang Chao-huan (王兆歡), who will perform a program that includes Beethoven’s Sonata No. 23, Op. 57 and Chopin’s Ballade No. 1, Op. 23 and Scherzos No. 1 and No. 2.
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