Etikett: emerging
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Let’s Dance: Beijing Dance Festival 2013 – CRIENGLISH.com
Ahead of the Beijing Dance Festival, we round up the best performances. [photo: TimeOut Beijing] Ahead of the Beijing Dance Festival, we talk to China’s doyen of dance, Willy Tsao, and round up the best performances. It’s not enough for Willy Tsao to run three modern dance companies and the Guangdong Dance Festival, he also wants to give dancers a place to let loose. ’Nowadays, dance is a meaningful vehicle for young people to express their art or feelings,’ he says. ’Before, Chinese dance was always traditional or ethnic, but today people realize that dance can be personal and unique.’ The best of YDM and Springboard go on to Guangdong in November to ’audition’ for invited international festival directors, but Tsao recognises that Beijing is for freer spirits.
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Stockholm SS13 | show report | Nhu Duong
The opening line of Nhu Duong’s biography certainly gets your imagination going. “Born in Ho Chi Minh City as daughter of a Kung-Fu Master and a tailoress sic …” has quite the ring to it and combined with a small collection of Emerging Talent awards, expectations quickly rise. The appearance of a white cotton tee with a layer of green tulle teamed with a grey knee-length skirt was a nod to the relaxed simplicity we’ve come to expect from our Swedish brands but there was a sportiness in the cut that felt promising. A couple of super-wide pleated palazzo pants were interesting but were quickly overtaken by a succession of, what can only be described as, cut-off-trouser ‘boots’ rising to mid-thigh that accompanied some short dresses