Glacier A
Glacier B
Ice Journey C
Glacier D
Glacier E
Ice Journey A
Ice Dance
Ice Journey B
Ice Ladies
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Landscape Over Zero Watch "Landscape Over Zero" Online
Choreography: Nai-Ni Chen Music: Joan La Barbara Set Design: Myung Hee Cho Lighting Design: Dan Meeker Dancers: 8 women, 5 men
length: 30 minutes "...In Chinese, the Zero represents zero Celsius or zero-degree longitude and latitude at the earth's poles. These possibilities make me think of the freezing point where ice becomes water or a time when winter and spring meet. Growing up in the subtropical island of Taiwan, I had never seen a frozen land covered with ice and snow until I got to this country. What inspired me the most is the life force buried under the snow that strives to grow each spring. Zero is the beginning of everything. Several years after I read this poem, 9/11 happened in New York. We were in such despair and pain. Then, I thought about how the growing force in nature is in each one of us. Zero is a vision for a new beginning." -Nai-Ni Chen
Landscape Over Zero
it's hawk teaching song to swim it's song tracing back to the first wind we trade scraps of joy enter family from different directions it's father confirming darkness it's darkness leading to the lightning of the
classics a door of weeping slams shut echoes chasing its cry its a pen blossoming in lost hope its a blossom resisting its inevitable route it's love's gleam waking to light up over landscape over zero ~poem by Bei Dao
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