Century Contemporary Dance Company (世紀當代舞團) will embark on a three-weekend adventure of site-specific performances at the Museum of National Taipei University of Education (MoNTUE) in Taipei beginning tomorrow.
Among the objectives of the three-year-old museum are to act as a showcase for interactions between all forms of art and to generate dialogue between the arts, culture and society, so mixing dance and more static art forms — be they paintings, videos, sculptures or installations — makes perfect sense.
The show, Eternal Fading Words (誓‧逝), will be performed by the company’s eight dancers around the work of eight artists, including Wang, Lee Ming-hsueh (李明學), Chin Cheng-te (秦政德), Leisa Shelton, Jeroen Speak and Keisuke Takahashi.
Photo Courtesy of Century Contemporary Dance Company
Theater director Liu Shou-yao (劉守曜) was drafted to help provide a structure for the show.
The museum Web site is a bit confusing about the performances, as it lists a “free” show from 2pm to 3pm every Saturday and Sunday from tomorrow through the end of the month, and then a “special” performance, which extends past the museum’s usual closing time, that runs from 4:30pm to 5:30pm, and for which there is an admission fee of NT$600.
■ The show will be performed at 4pm tomorrow, Sunday, Dec. 20, Dec. 21, Dec. 28 and Dec. 29 at MoNTUE (北師美術館) 134, Heping E Rd Sec 2, Taipei City (台北市和平東路二段134號)
■ Tickets for the 4pm shows are NT$600, available through NTCH ticketing, online at www.artsticket.com.tw, convenience store ticketing kiosks or at the museum
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