Divine Performing Arts Presents
Mid-Autumn Spectacular
John W.H. Bassett Theatre
255 Front Street West
(416) 585-8000
Wednesday September 24 - Saturday September 27, 2008: 8:00pm
Saturday September 27 - Sunday September 28, 2008: 2:00pm
$30.00 - $150.00
http://www.divineperformingarts.org
Divine Performing Arts is built upon a vision of rediscovering, and founding anew, humanity's true cultural heritage. It demands of itself that its performances present works of consummate beauty and goodness. Since 2006,Divine Performing Arts has toured over 60 cities around the globe and graced some of the world's greatest stages, such as New York's Radio City, San Francisco's Opera House, London's Royal Festival Hall and Paris's Le Palais des Congres. The response has been incredible.
The dancers in Divine Performing Arts are trained in classical Chinese dance making them unusually versatile. Chinese classical dance makes up most of what they perform. While most in the West are familiar with ballet, Chinese classical dance remains vague in many people's mind. Chinese classical dance has been passed down through China's 5000 years of history. Over the years, dancers reorganized, refined, experimented with, and reworked it to arrive at the extraordinary system of Chinese classical dance we have today. It involves the study of dozens of distinctive movements, rhythms and postures. Tumbling and acrobatic movements are also a part. It is therefore capable of expressing most any character or story, and is truly entertaining to watch.
The Divine Performing Arts Orchestra begins with a classical Western orchestra as its foundation and augments this with traditional Chinese instruments, enabling its compositions to at once mine the potential of Western orchestral music and be rich in Chinese qualities. Its members include persons with current positions in well-known symphony orchestras in the United State; the elite among accomplished, U.S.-based artists from mainland China and Taiwan; and first and second rank national-level performers from mainland China with a wealth of experience. They share in an aspiration of rekindle the true arts and culture of humanity.
