Cloud Gate Dance Theater of Taiwan: Wild Cursive October 16, 2007

The ensemble will perform 'Wild Cursive' (The Final Chapter of Cursive: A Trilogy), the final section of Lin Hwai-min's much-acclaimed trilogy inspired by calligraphy and martial arts. This astonishing new work is influenced by kuang chao (wild calligraphy), considered the pinnacle of Chinese cursive aesthetics, in which all the rules are broken and the characters freed from any set form. The Cloud Gate dancers' spellbinding movements echo the serpentine lines of the black ink as it flows down cascading streams of rice paper onto the stage.