Thursday, December 2, 2021

International Thanksgiving Birthday

Beauty of the Purest Sense



We were back in Kaohsiung before Thanksgiving Thursday. This was our second Thanksgiving in Taiwan, and as usual, we did nothing Thanksgivingish. On Friday, Lily and I saw Chen Hsin Yi's Ten Lines of Poetry to NK at Weiwuying. A multimedia performance, Ten Lines of Poetry to NK is based on the poetry of Chiang Tzu Te and combines the Neo-Classical Chamber Ensemble playing a score by Fang Szu Yu and Yang Chien Ru, choreography by Zhang Ya Ting, and a film by Zhao Chien Ming. There were shows on both Thursday and Friday, so we could have seen them on Thanksgiving, but I got tickets for Friday.

Friday night's dancers were, in order of who has the better agents, Zhang Hsin Yu, Huang Ya Mei, Chiang Chieh Hsi, Hsueh Yu Hsi, Shih Min Szu, Kao Hsin Yu, Su Wan Chu, Tseng Ting Kai, and Wong Tsan Kai.

The Neo-Classical Chamber Ensemble was conducted by Chen Hsin Yi, with Huang Hsin Pi on piano, Tsai Keng Ming and Huang Huan Wei on violin, Wong Yin Jin on viola, Hsiung Jui Hsien on cello, and Chen Yang on percussion.

Ten Lines of Poetry to NK
Act 1: Beauty of the Purest Sense
Act 2: An Autumn Without Lust
Act 3: The Flags of Pretension
Act 4: The Mandates of Mazu
Act 5: The Boiling City
Act 6: Beauty of the Purest Sense II

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