Ink - Huang Yi Studio + Presented with the support of Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels

Dance meets technology and the art of calligraphy by inventor/choreographer Huang Yi

In their newest collaboration, Ink, choreographer Huang Yi and audiovisual pioneer Ryoichi Kurokawa dismantle and reconstruct the lines from a hundred artworks in renowned calligrapher Tong Yang-Tze’s “Silent Music” series, exploring the various textures between body, sound, visual, and space.

Hovering between delicate and frantic dynamics, Huang digs deeper into his cultural roots and reveals a wild movement language, turning dancers’ bodies into brushes that paint and leave marks on stage. With speed and a ferocious vocabulary, dancers churn like a vortex in one moment, only to become flowing liquid in the next. Kurokawa transforms the inkblots into luminous tracks, echoing and merging with the unique brushstrokes of Tong, constructing a continuous flow of paintings via stunning holographic projection.

Combining Huang’s explosive and precise language and Kurokawa’s meticulous and sophisticated artistry, Ink is a work that crosses borders and fuses analog and digital, reflecting the harmonic tension between the realms of ancient practice and future design.

The groundbreaking Huang Yi was last seen in Abu Dhabi in The Arts Center’s inaugural season in his acclaimed work with an industrial robot, Huang Yi & Kuka.

Ink is an original production of Huang Yi Studio +, co-commissioned by the National Taichung Theater and National Theater, Taipei in Taiwan, and had its world premiere in June 2023.