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DESCRIPTION:Dec 8-13\, 2026\nTao Ye has been titling his pieces by number
 —2\, 3\, 4\, all the way to 18—since he and a couple of friends formed
  Tao Dance Theater in 2008\, in Beijing. The numbers may obscure how disti
 nct each ancient-seeming body-drama feels\, but they do suggest that the d
 ances belong to a single system. And\, astoundingly\, they do. Ye has inve
 nted not a style—distinctive enough—but a language\, a rare achievemen
 t. His root idea is the circle. “Imagine every part of your body is a po
 int that can draw circles\,” he told the Web site Seeing Dance. “Every
  joint\, limb\, even every hair.” The effect is not wholesome placidity\
 , as one might expect from something as round and pleasing as a circle\, b
 ut tumult: a roomful of dancers setting themselves against the body’s in
 ertia. In starchy\, voluminous robes\, they dig into the floor\, whip thei
 r heads and hips in ferocious figures\, and stop dead. Though the choreogr
 aphy is rigorously patterned\, the rhythms of phrases vary enough to const
 antly catch you off guard.
LOCATION:Joyce Theater\, 175 8th Ave\, New York\, NY 10011\, USA
SUMMARY:Tao Dance Theater: Tao Ye 13 & 14
URL;VALUE=TEXT:https://airmail.news/arts-intel/events/tao-dance-theater-1
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