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Labors of Love in Her Director’S Notes, Hua Album by the End of This Year 14 發光的城市 A R O U N D T O W N FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 2010 • TAIPEI TIMES BY DiaNE BAKer DANCE STOP horeographer Members of Jade & Artists Dance Troupe Jade Hua’s (華碧 rehearse the company’s latest production, 玉) productions last An Untold Secret, which premieres this Cyear — Vipashayana weekend at the Zhongshan Hall in Taipei. COMPILED BY Ho YI (觀。自在) and Crystal PHOTO COURTESY OF RICHARD WANG Tun-Hwang (水晶瓶中 nless you’ve been living 的敦煌) — focused respectively backdrops. Another test came underneath a rock inside on the search for meaning in from the need for the dancers to a cave on a lonely desert modern society and the path act as well as dance. Uisland in the middle of the ocean, to self-discovery with a nod to Lin, as well as being the you’ve probably heard of Lin Buddhist cave murals in China’s music producer, plays the central Yu-chun (林育群). Hailed by the Gansu Province. Those shows character. He had to walk a world’s media as the next Susan encapsulated Hua’s ambition to tightrope in creating a score that Boyle, the portly, bow tie-wear- combine modern and traditional balances classical music with pop ing 24-year-old with a bowl hair- Chinese dance techniques, while songs while working on his own cut became a YouTube sensation training the members of her 13- performance, since he will be overnight after he performed a year-old company, Jade & Artists playing the piano and singing. The Whitney Houston-like rendition Dance Troupe (肢體音符舞團) to process was made easier, however, of I Will Always Love You on dance “from the inside out.” by the fact that he is an old friend One Million Star (超級星光大道) The company’s latest of Hua’s and had worked with the earlier this month. production, An Untold Secret (藏 company on Crystal Tun-Hwang. Since then “Little Fatty” (小 心), which premieres tonight at An Untold Secret is divided 胖), as he calls himself, has been Taipei’s Zhongshan Hall, once again into three parts — Paradise Lost, covered by CNN, the BBC, the has the company shining a spotlight Night and Day and Hidden Heart Daily Mail, the USA Today, the on the internal life of humans, only — plus a prelude. New York Times and Agence this time it is the search for, and Paradise Lost is about young France-Presse, just to name a few. the meaning of, love. love, while Night and Day Even though Lin was eliminated Working with choreographer examines love’s fickle nature, and from the competition on last Hsu Wei-ling (許瑋玲), stage Hidden Heart expands the search week’s show, he has been courted designer Choo Yean Wong (黃祖 for love to a wider scale — the by several record companies and 延) and composer and singer Kevin search for true happiness. will reportedly release his first Lin (林隆璇), Hua has crafted a Labors of love In her director’s notes, Hua album by the end of this year. production that refined both her said An Untold Secret is about Lin’s newfound fame may have dancers and her production team. seeing all sides of love — the He will always love you. PHOTO: TAIPEI TIMES Performance noTES: already gone to his head. According Some of the challenges good, the bad and the ugly — as to Liberty Times (the Taipei she faced came from trying to WHAT: Jade & Artists Dance Troupe, An Untold Secret well as life and death. Times’ sister newspaper), his agent Li Kuang-chih (李光智), alleged create the right atmosphere for WHEN: Tonight and tomorrow at 7:30pm, tomorrow and Sunday at 2:30pm As the secrets hidden inside cancelled a press interview a few drug dealer Liu Chang-chih (劉昌 a production about love (luckily WHERE: Taipei Zhongshan Hall (台北中山堂), 98 Yanping S Rd, Taipei City (台北市延平南路98號) each of the characters — or hours before the scheduled time 志) and Liu’s girlfriend Wu Chih- Zhongshan Hall has a balcony, as ADMISSION: Tickets are NT$800, available through NTCH ticketing or online at www.artsticket.com.tw ourselves — are disclosed, Hua last Friday only to call reporters hsiang (吳芝香). balcony scenes figure so often in ADDITIONAL PERFORMANCE: June 18 at 7:30pm at the Experimental Theater of Chiayi said, they remind us that we back to take photographs of Lin at The erstwhile funnyman was love stories) and the search for Performance Arts Center (嘉義縣表演藝術中心實驗劇場), 265, Jianguo Rd Sec 2, Minsyong Township, should feel grateful for what the musical instrument shop where collared for using amphetamines images to project onto the two Chiayi County (嘉義縣民雄鄉建國路二段265號) we’ve experienced. he works. This behavior irked the in 2007 and 2009 and took papers’ gossip journos, who say Lin indefinite leave from local is a neophyte with the attitude of showbiz after his second arrest. BY BRADLEY WINTERTON an A-lister. Da Bing reportedly denied MUSIC It’s time again for another using the heroin found at his round of Celebrity Drug Bust. place, but in front of a media Disgraced entertainer Da Bing (大 scrum late Monday night he burst 炳) has been arrested on drug- into tears and said, “Please don’t Smooth as silk related charges for the third time, have faith in me anymore. I don’t this time for alleged possession deserve this attention.” ometimes it seems that Yo-yo Ma (馬 of amphetamines and heroin at Why are the police always 友友) has all the virtues. He’s an out- PERFORMANCE noTES: his apartment in Sijhih, Taipei busting celebs like Da Bing and standingly fine classical instrumen- County, on Monday. Local papers Suzanne Hsiao (蕭淑慎) when there Stalist yet routinely plays with musicians WHAT: Silk Road Ensemble with said when police broke into are plenty of other people using from other traditions. He supports many Yo-Yo Ma (馬友友．絲路之旅在台灣) the room, the cross-dressing drugs at any given moment all charities, has appeared on innumerable WHERE: National Concert Hall, Taipei performer, whose real name is Yu over Taipei? One theory is that TV shows and has a happy family life. He City and Kaohsiung’s Chih-teh Hall (高 Bing-hsian (余炳賢), knelt on the celebrity caners are too dumb to projects a relaxed, sunny and benevolent 雄市文化中心至德堂), 67 Wufu 1st Rd, floor and cried, “I’m screwed!” take measures to avoid getting personality. Lastly, he promotes cross- Kaohsiung City (高雄市五福一路67號) Also at the scene, according to caught. The other is that they are cultural harmony across Central Asia via WHEN: Thursday (Taipei) and April 25 the reports, were his boyfriend easy targets and a guaranteed his Silk Road Project, thereby, in a time (Kaoshiung) at 7:30pm source of good publicity for law of much religion-based dissention, uniting ADMISSION: Tickets are NT$800 (for enforcement. mainly Muslim peoples with Christians, students) and NT$1,800 to NT$6,000, Police say they were chasing Confucians, Buddhists and non-believers. available through Era ticketing, online Liu and Wu, not Da Bing. And he really is willing to try anything. at www.ticket.com.tw or by calling Also crying on TV this week He’ll play in an avant-garde style, (02) 2341-9898 was basketball player Chen Jien- welcome James Taylor onto his stage ON THE NET: www.silkroadproject.org chow (陳建州), better known as and laugh at his jokes, and jam with Blackie (黑人), accused by Next folk instrumentalists from just about Magazine of pocketing money anywhere on the planet, while remaining Taipei concert, including players of the Yo-yo Ma and his Silk Road Ensemble return to Taiwan for concerts in Taipei and Kaohsiung. PHOTO: BLOOMBERG from his Love Life charity drive. rooted in the great cello classics of Bach, shakuhachi, pipa (琵琶), sheng (笙) and The report claimed that the charity Dvorak and Shostakovich. kamancheh. The program concludes will be even more performers, with the In the face of ongoing political was hawking T-shirts for NT$580, Next week he’s in Taiwan again with a performance of US composer original group joined by adepts of the problems in Central Asia, Yo-Yo Ma’s of which only NT$100 per shirt with his Silk Road Ensemble, this time Osvaldo Golijov’s Air to Air (featured on tabla, ney and ruan (阮), plus special project testifies to the natural inclina- went to terminally ill children with for three concerts starting in Taipei on the Ensemble’s 2009 CD Off the Map on guest artist Vesal Arbzadeh on the Iranian tion of musicians everywhere to perform cancer and the rest to Blackie. Thursday. It’s part of an Asian tour that Harmonia Mundi’s World Village label). setar. How typical of Ma to go out of his alongside one another, and happily make Blackie broke down in front will have already seen them in Seoul and Given that Golijov has Eastern European way to make sure that Iran (as Persia music together. He’s giving more concerts of media on Wednesday and Macau, and will take them on to Bangkok Jewish ancestry, this is yet another key was a major state along the old Silk Road in Taiwan than anywhere else, and he’s explained tearfully that the extra (all being well) and Singapore. ingredient in Ma’s “world music” project. route) is central to his comprehensive sure to be given a very warm welcome at money was used to cover costs There’ll be 13 performers for the In Taichung and Kaohsiung there and inclusive undertaking. all of them.
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