Performance 3: Moon Water by Cloud Gate Dance Theatre 

  Taiwan ’s first and leading contemporary dance company brings together a fabulous blend of Eastern and Western dance styles in the performance called Moon Water. 

To the Chinese, Moon Water, is reminiscent of two things: one is a Buddhist proverb, ‘Flowers in a mirror and moon on the water are both illusive’ and the other describes the ideal state of a tai-chi practitioner ‘Energy flows as water, while the spirit shines as the moon.’

Choreographer Lin Hwai Min’s entrancing Moon Water is based in tai-chi which gives it a natural rhythm and a visible pulse from the energy of breathing that propels one action smoothly towards the next and recalls the swell and ebb of a river. Moon Water is profoundly simple. Circles of stage design and movement, identical white silk costumes for men and women, a watery black set opening up to a panoply of silvery mirrors and a flowing continuity in the style and structure of the dance, all performed to J.S. Bach’s solo cello suites.

By translating and metamorphosing the essence of traditional Chinese physical exercise into a blend of dance and theatre, Lin Hwai Min has created another milestone in the development of dance.

Performance dates and times: 28 May – 1 June 2002 at 7.30pm

Ticket prices: £10-£35     

Venue: Sadler’s Wells Theatre, Rosebery Avenue , London   EC1R 4TN

Ticket Office telephone number: 020 7863 8000

For further information or to buy tickets, please contact Sadler’s Wells Theatre or visit the website: 

http://www.sadlers-wells.com/whats_on/spring2002/cloud.asp   

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