13

Credits
Choreography: Tao Ye
Music Composition: Xiao He
Lighting Design: Ma Yue, Tao Ye
Costumes: Duan Ni
Costume Production: DNTY
Artistic Direction: Tao Ye, Duan Ni
Company Management: Wang Hao
Rehearsal Director: Huang Qiqi
Technical Director: Ma Yue
Production & Project Direction: Jun Jun
Executive Coordination: Tai Yuanxu
Visual Direction: Fan Xi
DNTY Managing Direction: Ning He

14

Credits
Choreography & Sound Concept: Tao Ye
Lighting Design: Ma Yue, Tao Ye
Costumes: Duan Ni
Artistic Direction: Tao Ye, Duan Ni
Company Management: Wang Hao
Rehearsal Director: Huang Qiqi
Technical Director: Ma Yue
Production & Project Direction: Jun Jun
Executive Coordination: Tai Yuanxu
Visual Direction: Fan Xi
DNTY Managing Direction: Ning He

Notes on the Works

Both choreographies are part of the celebrated Numerical Series, the distinctive project developed by TAO Dance Theater, based in Beijing. Each work in the series is titled according to the number of dancers involved.

13

Created for thirteen dancers, 13 unfolds through a tripartite structure, exploring three modes of bodily relationship: solo, duet, and ensemble.
Beginning from the unity of the group, the choreography progressively fragments the dancers into shifting formations marked by sudden alternations between slow motion and acceleration. The work reflects the “complexity of the physical world, where bodies constantly collide, connect, separate, fall, and rebound,” within a choreographic form that is both rigorous and open-ended.

14

A study of rhythm for fourteen dancers, 14 employs rapid shifts in movement to reveal the infinite possibilities between stillness and motion.
The result of a highly complex dynamism, the work pushes the vocabulary of the Circular Movement System — the movement research method developed by Tao Ye and Duan Ni with their dancers — to its limits.
Points, lines, and planes intersect throughout space, reducing the performance to pure movement while unfolding the full spectrum of its expressive possibilities.