From November 24^th to 26^th, the TAO Dance Theater, which is on the 15^th anniversary of its founding, will stage its “Number Series” at the NCPA Dance Festival 2023, including 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14.

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12

On the 24^th, 10 and 12 will be presented on the stage first. 12 is a dancing work created in 2019 for the Cloud Gate Dance Theatre by the choreographer TAO Ye, as part of Exchange, co-choreographed by the TAO Dance Theater and Cloud Gate Dance Theatre. With clouds as the idea, the TAO Dance Theater’s “Circular Movement” - based spine as the axis, and the Cloud Gate Dance Theatre’s dancing techniques - lifting and sinking - as the source, TAO Ye created 12 picture scrolls of the body, in which there are bodies swirling to get together and spread apart like clouds. 10 is a dance for supplication, created by the choreographer TAO Ye in 2020 in order to express his insight into life gained after the outbreak of the pandemic. In the work, a primitive human fable of the bonfire is conceived by ten dancers dancing in a circle, staying near or far away from one another. It implies a hope for an endless circle of life that has been cherished in close emotional ties from generation to generation.

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On the 25^th, 11 will be staged alone. 11 is the 11^th numbers-based and longest work created by the choreographer TAO Ye. In the dance are the rules of restriction and freedom for 11 dancers: The lower body is restricted while the upper body is free. The dancers initiate a conversation between rationality and sensibility, presenting 11 dimensions, in which the solo dance, duo dance, trio dance and ensemble dance are intertwined in order. 11 different styles of electronic music provide a more multivariate imaginary space in the work.

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On the 26^th, 13 and 14 will share the stage. Both were created in 2022 by the choreographer TAO Ye. In 13, the dancers are connected into an organic whole, in the form of “three in one”, and gradually broken up into different shapes, with their posture changing constantly in movement, opening up a complex physical world, where there are infinite phenomena including a collision, squeezing, fusion, falling, rebounding, and pulling. 14, themed rhythm and change, is not relevant to a repetitive cycle at all, whereas spatiotemporal possibilities between motion and stillness are explored with ever-changing dance movements.

On November 17^th, the TAO Studio Workshop: Circular Movement, a refreshing event, was held at the NCPA Press Room. TAO Ye gave a lesson, teaching how to dance under the guidance of the TAO Dance Theater’s creative “Circular Movement System”.