Playhouse, QPAC, Brisbane
Chinese superstar choreographer Yang Liping creates a real crowd pleaser as timeless European dance gets the Tibetan treatment
The Chinese choreographer and dancer Yang Liping is 60, but she has only recently received the exposure she deserves in the west. Trained in folk dance since childhood, the superstar who became known as the ‘peacock princess’ provided one of the breakout hits of Brisbane and Melbourne festivals in 2017 with Under Siege. A “hallucinatory” work of contemporary dance, Under Siege told the story of the four-year war, the Chu-Han Contention, which took place around 206 BC.
Now Yang Liping is back on Australian shores, bringing her reinterpretation of the timeless Stravinsky ballet Rite of Spring to Brisbane festival.
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