13
Choreographer: TAO Ye
Music: Xiaohe
Lighting Designer: TAO Ye
Costume Production: DNTY
13 is the twelfth work in choreographer TAO Ye’s Numerical Series. Drawing on the concept of the Trinity, the piece explores the number 13 through three forms of bodily connection: solo, duet, and group dance. These three modes of movement and interaction form the foundation of the work.
In 13, the dancers first come together as a unified whole, then gradually break apart and take on different forms. Through continuously evolving sequences of movement, the work unfolds a complex physical world, evoking endless possibilities of collision, compression, fusion, falling, rebounding, and pulling. Shifting between slow, moderate, and rapid rhythms, the bodies transform into flowing water, mountains, rocks, and all things. Here, the body becomes a medium through which the boundless and unpredictable possibilities of imagination are revealed.
The concepts of monism, dualism, and pluralism form a distinctive pattern. In this work, choreographer TAO Ye brings together the three transformations of body, space, and time, weaving them into a fluid and ever-changing whole. Through a choreographic philosophy that is both rigorous and open, the work responds to the diverse and impermanent states of the present moment.
14
Choreographer: TAO Ye
Music: Xiaohe
Lighting Designer: TAO Ye
Costume Production: DNTY
As the thirteenth work in choreographer TAO Ye’s Numerical Series, 14 explores the themes of rhythm and transformation. How can the body be placed in new contexts and pushed beyond its familiar boundaries? In this work, TAO Ye moves away from his earlier reliance on repetition and cyclical structures, instead using constantly evolving movement textures to explore the possibilities between motion and stillness across space and time.
The music adopts a bold minimalist approach built on a single equal-tempered scale, unfolding like the movement of an hour hand to mirror the intricate dynamics of bodily transformation onstage. Through an audiovisual relationship in which less becomes more, 14 pushes TAO Dance Theater’s circular movement system to the limits of its movement vocabulary.
The cutting and folding of points, lines, and planes in space, together with the turbulence and swaying that emerge as the body’s centre of gravity slips out of balance, bring the work back to the pure language of bodily movement. Here, every possibility unfolds into myriad pathways, shaped by the ever-shifting interplay of change and constancy.
Production Team
Artistic Directors: TAO Ye, DUAN Ni
Costume Designer: DUAN Ni
Costume Production: DNTY
Rehearsal Director: DUAN Ni
Rehearsal Assistant: LU Wenchao
General Manager of the Dance Troupe: WANG Hao
Visual Director: FAN Xi
Photographer: Haiyang
Technical Director: DONG Huoliang
Sound Engineering: LIAN Xiaojie
Performance Coordinator: Tina Zhang
Project Coordinator: LIU Yexuan
Tour Assistant: HUANG Xiaolu
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