“An extraordinarily exciting, brutishly physical contemporary dance company.”
—THE SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER

WILD CURSIVE

• THE FINAL CHAPTER OF CURSIVE: A TRILOGY
• CLOUD GATE DANCE THEATRE OF TAIWAN
• CHOREOGRAPHY BY LIN HWAI-MIN

OCT 2, 4—6 AT 7:30PM
OCT 7 AT 3PM
BAM HOWARD GILMAN OPERA HOUSE
RUNNING TIME: 70MIN
TICKETS : $20, 45, 60

Massive scrolls of translucent rice paper unfurl onto the stage. Slowly, their pristine surfaces are inscribed with rivulets of black ink seeping from above, evoking Chinese calligraphy at its freest and most revealing. The improvisatory spirit of this ancient form is echoed through fluent, spiraling movement in Wild Cursive, an enthralling and dynamic work by choreographer Lin Hwai-min.

Dressed in black and dancing on a white floor, the dancers’ sudden changes of direction, knee drops, and delicately curling fingers evoke the line strokes in all their variety. Trained in martial arts, tai chi tao yin (an ancient form of chi kung), modern dance, ballet, meditation, Chinese Opera movement, and calligraphy, members of Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan move with astonishing power. No other company so effortlessly weds East and West to arrive at something so completely new.

Presented in association with Asia Society

Set concept by Lin Hwai-min
Lighting design by Chang Tsan-tao
Costume design by Sammy Wang
Music by Jim Shum and Liang Chun-mei

Photo by Lin Ching-yuan