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DESCRIPTION:Jul 13\, 2026 - Mar 4\, 2027\nTao Ye has been titling his piece
 s by number—2\, 3\, 4\, all the way to this month’s 18—since he and 
 a couple of friends formed Tao Dance Theater in 2008\, in Beijing. The num
 bers may obscure how distinct each ancient-seeming body-drama feels\, but 
 they do suggest that the dances belong to a single system. And\, astoundin
 gly\, they do. Ye has invented not a style—distinctive enough—but a la
 nguage\, a rare achievement. His root idea is the circle. “Imagine every
  part of your body is a point that can draw circles\,” he told the Web s
 ite Seeing Dance. “Every joint\, limb\, even every hair.” The effect i
 s not wholesome placidity\, as one might expect from something as round an
 d pleasing as a circle\, but tumult: a roomful of dancers setting themselv
 es against the body’s inertia. In starchy\, voluminous robes\, they dig 
 into the floor\, whip their heads and hips in ferocious figures\, and stop
  dead. Though the choreography is rigorously patterned\, the rhythms of ph
 rases vary enough to constantly catch you off guard. For July\, the Athens
  Epidaurus Festival and Barcelona’s Festival Grec host 16 and 17\, while
  ImPulsTanz outdoes itself with Ye’s last five pieces\, including its co
 mmission of 18.
LOCATION:Various Venues
SUMMARY:Tao Dance Theater
URL;VALUE=TEXT:https://airmail.news/arts-intel/events/tao-dance-theater
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