Reconnecting to a body of creativity

Tao Dance Theater has collaborated with leading Chinese artists across various genres. [Provided to China Daily ]

TAO Dance Theater has performed in every modern dance festival throughout China and collaborated with leading Chinese artists across genres including theater, experimental music, visual arts and installation.

Its newest work, 2, is a duet performed by artistic director and company founder Tao Ye and Duan Ni.

The company recorded its own conversations during rehearsal and daily life for composer Xiao He to use the natural spoken rhythms to develop the accompanying musical score.

The resulting performance is both hypnotic and thought provoking as minimalistic movements develop into virtuosic patterns to express the abstract idea of two souls in conversation.

Weight x 3 is a triptych of pieces concerned with perceptions of physical practice, performed to the music of Steve Reich. Choreographer Tao Ye explores the idea that people have become disconnected from the body's creative abilities, and this work is part of his mission to reconnect, through corporeal research, with a sense of self and identity.

Date: Nov 15 - 16

Venue: Lilian Baylis Studio, London

Website: http://www.sadlerswells.com/