TAO Dance Theater is a full-time contemporary dance company founded by Tao Ye, Duan Ni and Wang Hao in 2008. The dance works of Numerical Series created by the company with its simple creative concept and pure body aesthetics have toured to more than 40 countries in five continents and visited more than 100 different art festivals. The company has garnered widespread attention from people from all walks of life, becoming one of the most sought-after Chinese contemporary dance companies on the international stage. Since 2013, the company has been invited to present the Numerical Series, at the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) in Beijing for the tenth time, and all the works of the Numerical Series have been presented on the stage of the NCPA so far. In 2021, TAO Dance Theater established art extension brands DNTY and TAO STUDIO. In 2023, TAO Dance Theater, which is “committed to simplifying complexity into a ‘pure dance’ aesthetic”, won the one of the world’s most authoritative and influential awards – Silver Lion Award of Dance at La Biennale di Venezia. In 2024, TAO Dance Theater established the second dancer group called TAO Dance Theater 2, with the purpose of “Dancing For Yourself”. The dancers of TAO Dance Theater 2 are no limited to any age, occupation, or nationality, which means that the dance creation and expression of TAO Dance Theater 2 are closer to life, connected to this era, and closely related to everyone, integrating the concept that “the body is the theater” into a broader audience.
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