calligraphy as performance

January 11th, 2010

Tingfang shared the below dance performance video from a dance company called Cloudgate from Taiwan. I fell in love with this 30 seconds trailer. Calligraphy embodied in dance does not sound original,  but it really is, we relate Western typography with certain emotions and feelings, but this relating is usually a verbal or visual one, this work even though representing a different origin shows us how to exceed that boundary, revealing emotions in motion…

One Response to “calligraphy as performance”

  1. 1 Aliya
    January 12th, 2010 at 9:15 pm

    Fascinating. I’ve never heard of/ seen anything like this ever.

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