A performance by dancers from the Chinese Opera and Dance Theatre transforms the stage into poetry in motion. Fingertips become a paintbrush, wide sleeves become ink - dance becomes a visual interpretation of ancient texts.
Each swirl of the skirts evokes a blooming lotus flower, the graceful movements of the hands remind us of the movement of fish in water. The purity of the lotus and the carefree nature of the fish, as captured by the classic of Chinese literature, come to life through dance, which carries a deep poetic charge.
One of the dancers is reciting a famous passage from the writings of On the love of lotuses by the Chinese thinker Zhou Dunyi: "He comes out of the mud, yet remains unstained." A group of six performers then enact the scene described in Liu Zongyuan's text Notes on small stoneswhere the fish play in the crystal clear water - as if they themselves were verses in motion.
Dance thus serves not only as an aesthetic experience, but also as a bridge between ancient ideas and the contemporary viewer - a silent dialogue between text, body and emotions.
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