BeijingDance - LDTX Summer Selections August 12, 2008

Time: 2008/8/12-2008/8/16
Venue: Beijing Oriental Pioneer Theater
Price: 60/150
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From August 11th to 16th, BeijingDance / LDTX is back to present a week ofthrilling performances, Summer Selections, which features two differentprograms: Trailing the Sun (11th, 13th and 15th), a cutting-edgecontemporary premier, and BeijingDance / LDTX Classics (12th, 14th and16th), an evening of choreography from its internationally acclaimedrepertoire.

BeijingDance/ LDTX Classics is a collection of 4 different works, which demonstrateLDTX’s true scope of perspective and technique. The Cold Dagger excerpt is a climactic 10-minute version of the full-evening work set to a beautiful score by Gorecki. The Eagle, featuring 4 male dancers, is choreographed by a native of Inner-Mongolian. The mesmerizing piece investigates the mystical province of China fraught with history and tradition.

The final piece of BeijingDance / LDTX Classics is set to Stravinsky’s Rite of Springpremiered in 1933, signifying the dawn of a new era in music. Thismusic has inspired many western choreographers, and now, BeijingDance /LDTX’s Chinese choreographers offer their unique version, All RiverRed. The work reflects how contemporary dance has been developing in20th century in Chinaagainst all odds. All River Red shows not so much a comfortable fusionof East-meets-West, but a direct and violent confrontation betweenthose adhering to tradition and those aspiring to innovation.

Objective
Thebirth of Beijing LDTX Modern Dance Company (LDTX) in September 2005 notonly caught international attention, but also captured the imaginationof many artists in China.LDTX (Lei Dong Tian Xia , literally, thunder moves under the sky) wasborn out of a controversial and exciting time in which China underwentrapid cultural change, LDTX is China’s first non-governmental andindependent professional dance company.

Founded by veteran choreographers and a new generation of dancers in China , LDTX is a platform for both contemporary relevant and innovative creations. Under the artistic direction of Willy Tsao, China’sforemost figure in Modern dance, and deputy artistic Li Hanzhong thecompany boasts an ensemble of 14 technically exquisite dancers and adiverse repertoire.

Since it’s creation in 2005, LDTX has traveled extensively throughout Mainland China, Hong Kong, Europe and North America.Through performance seasons, educational programs, technique classes,and outreach endeavors, LDTX attracts young aspiring dancers andartists to modern dance and serves as an important representative ofmodern Chinese thought and society.

Price RMB60 for students only

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