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Program Introduction：
Act Ⅰ：
Oath (Midnight Rain)
Everyone will die, but we will not leave this world forever - the eternal promise of rebirth will bring us back.
--- Tibetan Proverb
Oath (Midnight Rain) explores the choreographer's understanding of Buddhist Samsara, the cycle of death and rebirth and the liminal moment between night and day, between black and white, between ending and beginning.
The work was commissioned by la Biennale di Venezia and premiered in June 2006 in Venice, Italy to critical acclaim and sold out performances. In January, 2007 the piece was featured in the Changmu International Arts Festival in Seoul, Korea, where Korean national television (KBS) broadcast the performance throughout the country.
Act Ⅱ:
Unfettered Journey
In the northern ocean there is a fish called the k'un, countless thousands of li in size. This k'un changes into a bird, called the p'eng. Its back is countless thousands of li in breadth. When it is moved, it flies, its wings obscuring the sky like clouds.
Chuangtse Free and Easy Wandering
Who can say what is north of north?
And who can say just how large is that legendary fish that lurks there?
It is not for our imagination to conceive.
Nor can we understand how the fish one day transformed into a mythical bird,
Or what reason he had to change.
Our attempts to imagine how or why are like summer cicadas debating winter's frost.
We can only manage to wonder:
Are his wings made of clouds,
Or were the clouds once his wings…
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