2012 Cloud Gate Dance eatre, Nine SongsNine Songs, a cycle of poems written by Qu Yuang some 2,300 years ago, is considered a pinnacle of classical Chinese literature. Drawing on the ancient imagery and sensibilities, Lin Hwai-min creates a thoroughly contemporary ritual, in which distant and recent pasts collide.

Masked shamans, playing the roles of Gods and Goddesses, enact otherworldly rites to music from India, Tibet, Java, Japan and indigenous tribes of Taiwan. eir dances are interspersed with appearances of people in contemporary dress: a man in a modern-day suite with luggage calmly crosses the stage; a young man on bicycle dashes through the crowd; scores of protesters scurry for cover from blazing searchlights.

e East and the West, the Past and the Present, give rise to an aesthetic that has won Nine Songs the accolade of “a perfect choreographic paradigm for a true intercultural dance form.” (Ballet International)

Received to great acclaim at the Vienna International Dance Festival, the Next Wave Festival in New York, the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., the Sydney 2000 Olympic Arts Festival, and major cities in Germany, Canada and the United States, Nine Songs was hailed by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung as “one of the most important dance works of our time.”

To read more about Cloud Gate Dance eatre and Nine Songs, please go to the page: http://www.cloudgate.org.tw/2012fall/eng/http://www.cloudgate.org.tw/2012fall/eng/

2012 Tainan International Friendship Music Festival Starts on September

e 2012 Tainan International Friendship Music Festival will be held at the Sing Ying Stadium on September 8. Popular Taiwanese, Japanese and South Korean group bands such as Super Junior-M, EXO-M, Dream Girls, Lollipop F, W-inds, and Yuki Koyanagi will be performing. Music lovers are welcome to join the festivities.

Tainan City Government News and International Relations Director Chen Zongyan explained that the festival is expected to be held at the Sing Ying Stadium on September 8th with total seats of 23,000. e price ticket ranges from 3200 NTD for the Rock ‘n’ Roll area to 600 NTD for normal seats.

In order to welcome this southern Taiwan event and to promote Tainan cuisine, tourism, and culture, the City invited lots of government directors and famous persons to be the VIP spokesperson for the event.

Vice Mayor Yan said that in addition for coming to the event for the music, he also wished that everyone can experience tourism in Tainan and explained that Baihe, Houbi, Singying, Yanshuei, Liouying districts have delicious food and fun places that are worth a visit.

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Tainan Dantsu Noodle

In Tainan, you can find a variety of delicious noodles in restaurants, such as Beef Noodles, Eel Noodles, and Yi Noodles as we brought to you a few weeks before. Yet there is another very important wheat food and very famous Tainanese noodle for this week, Dantsu Noodle, developed in Tainan over a century ago and can be easily found everywhere in Taiwan nowadays.

The delicious Dantsu Noodles have two important and necessary ingredients – the stewed meat and the soup base, both of which have very attractive flavors. A bowl of Dantsu Noodle is usually topped with minced pork and a shrimp. Though it might sound quite simple for a famous dish, Dantsu Noodle is just so simple and addictive to all gourmands!

When enjoying your delicate Dantsu Noodle, try using the chopsticks to mix the minced meat with the noodles thoroughly, which would make the noodles with better fragrant and taste. And do not forget to try a bit soup before you start to have the noodles, which will definitely make you noodles, which will definitely make you impressed!

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