— Reviews —

• Tsai’s works are strongly balletic, and it was nice to see the eight dancers get a chance to arch their feet and execute long extensions and graceful lifts.rnTsai has great taste in music and he did not disappoint with his selections of several Ezio Bosso compositions and Keaton Henson’s Healah Dancing.

  — 2017-03-17 Diane Baker | Taipei Times

• This year’s “Spring Riot” is the first time that Po-Cheng Tsai’s has choreographed for the troupe, but hopefully it will not be the last. I liked his Whisper of the Eyes filled with whispering and hints of disconnection and danger, the most of the three dances.

  — 2017-03-17 Diane Baker | Taipei Times

• Fortunately, far from being confused, the dance is largely well-crafted, right from the opening that sees Tsou Ying-lin (鄒瑩霖) apparently asking ‘Why?’ There is a sense of estrangement and helplessness from her in particular. Although the dancers are a group, and they try to unite, a sense of loneliness pervades. One particular phrase articulated by just one or two dancers that recurs now and again, usually while others watch from the upstage shadows, seems to sum it all up.

  — 2017-03-17 David Mead | SeeingDance

• It is good stuff, but after 25-minutes about mood and feeling, all done very subtly, comes a rather in-your-face ending that ends with Tsou lying, apparently dead under the closing curtain. As much as what we see is clear, the message is not.

  — 2017-03-17 David Mead | SeeingDance