# Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan at Zellerbach Hall Auditorium, January 21, 2016

[Cal Performances](http://calperformances.org/performances/2015-16/dance/cloud-gate-dance-theatre-of-taiwan-rice.php) presents Technical Rehearsal of _Rice_ featuring [Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan](http://site.cloudgate.org.tw/eng/theater/)  
2016-01-21  
[Zellerbach Hall Auditorium](http://www.calperfs.berkeley.edu/)  
[U.C. Berkeley, Bancroft Way at Telegraph Ave, Berkeley, CA 94720](http://maps.google.com/maps?q=U.C.+Berkeley,+Bancroft+Way+at+Telegraph+Ave,+Berkeley,+CA+94720&hl=en)  
6:00 PM, Thursday, January 21, 2016

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## Set One: Talk in the Mezzanine with ? Rob Baylis, associate director of call perfs 

[6:14 PM to 6:26]

## Set Two: Open Rehearsal 

[6:27 PM curtain lowered as we enter, how strange!]

* scene one : a farmer walks very slowly across the stage, carrying a long thin bamboo pole 
* scene two : 9 women in  colorful dresses perform a strange stomping dance : first sashimi group of three, then as separate groups of three, then as a single large group. 
* scene three :men join in, and the large group dances while sprawling across the floor, making me think of rice growing up out of the water of a paddy. 

Sadly, I must leave at 6:45 PM in order to fetch Ting for tonight's Los Lobos show; I really got work harder on developing my ability to enjoy existing in multiple locations simultaneously! 


## Performers

[Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan](http://site.cloudgate.org.tw/eng/theater/)

* performers TBD.


## Notes

In retrospect, I should have looked into getting tickets to this show, but 20-20 hindsight won't get you in the door! And honestly, I'm not sure I was up for an 80 minute meditation on the nature of rice. Maybe next time! 

P.S.: I don't know what I meant by 'sashimi group' -- it's that darn autocorrect messing me up, and I really have no clue what I meant to write!

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