State of Play Festival: PEILING KAO DANCES
One dancer in a room full of blue light. They have a long black hair and are wearing a white t-shirt. They are stretching their arms up and to the front.
Palimpsest Corpus represents the outcome of Pei-Ling Kao’s project The Dancing Body Through The Lens of Postcolonialism, in which ten well-known choreographers each set a short solo for Kao between 2018 and 2022. The work suggests that the movement of the dancerʻs body reveals their history. The various styles of dance training Kao has inhabited, together with the influences of the individual choreographers have all left traces on her movement. The superimposed layers of each of these dance lineages are now fused within her Taiwanese body.
