Bernice Lee

Paris Opera Ballet presents The Seasons’ Canon by Crystal Pite at Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay 21-23 June.

Does it belong to Newton? Adam and Eve? Does Shiro Takatani want me to care?

Jerome Robbins was an immensely prolific artist of his times. His creative pursuit saw him performing and choreographing between the ballet world, Broadway, and the screen.

Held up in great regard, artists enter into training as children at the Paris Opera Ballet School, their lives and their families’ lives moulded to fit the high demands of elite training.

Lin Hwai-min’s dancers illuminated the theatre with an intense awareness of their bodies honed by years of tuning into themselves.

It is easy to look at Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan, and think about how Taiwanese, or how Chinese, or how Asian,…