| Presented by
Grand Performances…
Grand Performances
2004 Summer Series
*Zocalo
Featuring Willy Tsao interviewed by Sasha Anawalt
Tuesday, August 17 at 7pm
China is home to a number of contemporary performing artists who
are working in a new environment mixing public support with entrepreneurial
efforts to bring their work before their audiences. Willy Tsao,
the director of both Hong Kong’s City Contemporary Dance
Company and the Beijing Modern Dance Company, will be the featured
artist who talks about the challenges and opportunities facing
contemporary artists in China.
*Hong Kong’s City Contemporary
Dance Company
Thursday, August 19 – Saturday, August 21 at 8pm
A myriad of romanticized images have contributed to Western perceptions
of Asia’s mysterious and awes-inspiring civilizations. When
combined with elements of Zen, Peking opera or Taoism in the Western
mind and media, they become short-hand notion for “Orientalism.”
The creative dance team from Hong Kong examines and responds to
the intriguing and to them, sometimes annoying concept of Orientalism
with their iconic work, “365 Ways of Doing and Undoing Orientalism.” |
