The two mixed-bill programs both feature pieces by NDT’s house choreographers Sol Leon and Paul Lightfoot, and Canadian associate choreographer Crystal Pite. CHALLENGING CHOREOGRAPHYAll five are creating some of the most challenging contemporary choreography being performed today. In Shut Eye, NDT artistic director Lightfoot and Leon ask viewers the question: Is what we see limited by our senses or is it conditioned by how we let our brain manipulate images through our emotions? Pite’s 2012 work, Solo Echo was inspired by Mark Strand’s poem Lines for Winter, where the individual is the focal point against a backdrop of whirling snowflakes. It is a piece that ponders humankind’s reliance on physical environment and the capability to survive.

Source: Taipei Times June 12, 2019 16:02 UTC