By Fiona Gardner
East, Woman Shifting on the Time Axis starts with an in depth exploration of Japanese traditions, particularly of women’s submissiveness to men.
The women carefully carve their way into space wearing shoes that reflect foot binding, where the dancers are quite impressive as they walk across the stage treading delicately. As the piece projects, there are proverbs that are translated in to somewhat poor grammar. The costumes by Yu-Fen Tsai are brilliantly put together; along side the traditional sleeve dresses used in Taiwan.
The Taiwanese performing arts group have spectacular technique delivering a professional performance. This work is very inline with a neo classical style of contemporary dance. The last half of the work didn’t come across as strongly in the first half and I must say bravo to all the dancers for not hitting each other when they were all on the tiny stage.
The venue of choice was the largest pitfall, as the costumes and special alignment of the work would have been more effective on a traditional black stage.
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