PEILING KAO DANCES presents naive at Kumu Kahua Theatre – Honolulu, HI

PEILING KAO DANCES returns to Kumu Kahua Theatre presenting Kao’s recent creation naive, expresses the “beginner’s mind” directly translating visceral responses to Bach’s Goldberg Variations into collaborative movement. The dance explores how honesty, trust, and uncertainty reframe the performative experience.

Performers:

Spencer Agoston, Maddie Biven, Jason Kanda, Pei-Ling Kao, Mareva Minerbi, and Anna Quijano

About Artistic Director Pei-Ling Kao
Pei-Ling Kao is a Taiwanese dance educator, dance-maker and performer. She explores different styles of dance with the goal of intellectually and physically adapting to changes in the contemporary dance world. Her research and creative interests have focused on movement improvisation, bicultural and hybrid movement, dance lineages, choreography and interdisciplinary collaborations. Movement is the core of her work, in the belief that movement transcends what language offers to our experience of viewing and feeling. An award winning educator, Pei-Ling teaches at the University of Hawai’i Mānoa.
www.peilingkaodances.com