This weekend caps a very busy two years for rising young choreographer Benson Tsai (蔡博丞), which began with the terrific Little Star (小小星辰) for Kaohsiung City Ballet’s (高雄城市芭蕾舞團) Dance Shoe production in January last year.
City Contemporary Dance Company (CCDC, 城市當代舞蹈團) then invited him to Hong Kong to take part in its China Dance Forward program, and he also took pieces to Guangzhou and Beijing for festivals. His 10-minute solo/duet Floating Flower (浮花) won the Gauthier Dance/Stuttgart Theater Production Award at the 28th Hannover International Competition for Choreographers in June last year. In between, he launched his own company, B.DANCE (丞舞製作團隊).
Gauthier Dance performed Floating Flower several times this year, while Tsai traveled with his own company and his piece Hugin/Munin to Israel for the Jerusalem International Dance Week and to Denmark, where it won both first place in the Copenhagen International Choreography Competition and picked up the Tanz Luzerner Theater Production Award. The troupe also went to the Canary Islands for Masadanza — where Floating Flower won the Audience Prize for Best Choreography.
Photo courtesy of Chou Yi-wen
B.DANCE is at the Shuiyuan (Wellspring) Theater in Taipei this weekend for three shows of Tsai’s expanded 60-minute group version of that work, Floating Flowers II.
■ The shows are at 7:30pm tonight and tomorrow and 2:30pm on Sunday at the Taipei City Shuiyuan (Wellspring) Theater (台北市水源劇場), 10F, 92, Roosevelt Rd Sec 4, Taipei City (台北市羅斯福路四段92號10樓)
■ The are only a few seats left in the NT$2,500 “sponsor” category for Sunday’s matinee, available online at www.artsticket.com.tw, at convenience store ticketing kiosks or at the door. That buys you a reserved seat and a gift.
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