13

Created in 2022

Choreography | Tao Ye

Music | Xiao He

Lightning Design | Ma Yue,Tao Ye

Costume Design | DNTY

Duration|25 min

Premiere | 7 Jan 2023, The National Centre for the Performing Arts ,Beijing ,China

"13" is the twelfth digital series work choreographed by Tao Ye. This piece corresponds to the number 13 with the concept of trinity, incorporating solo, duet, and group dance. These three forms of physical connection constitute the entire creation.

In "13", the dancers connect as a whole, gradually splitting into different forms. The continuous variations in dance segments during movement create a complex physical world: achieving collisions, compressions, fusions, falls, rebounds, pulls, and countless other phenomena. Through slow, medium, and fast rhythmic movements, the bodies transform into water flows, rocks, and all things. At this moment, the body serves as a medium, showcasing the ever-changing nature of imagination.

The concepts of unity, duality, and multiplicity form a pattern. In this creation, choreographer Tao Ye connects bodily, spatial, and temporal changes into a chaotic whole. With a rigorous yet open choreographic concept, it responds to the current concrete and impermanent states.