SPRING OVERTURE (1992)
Choreography: Lily Cai
Music: Gang Situ & Gary Schwantes
Lighting Design: Jack Carpenter

A bright and exuberant folk style dance celebration with dancers in red jump suits unleashing their joyful energy to the crowd. At times playful, coy and sweetly demure behind their lush golden fans, these dancers paint breathtaking air designs with exhilarating swirls of flowing silk ribbons, spins and jumps all the way to an explosive finish.

PRESS QUOTES

• “Lily Cai and her six dancers were charming, smashingly visual amid their swirling color of silk scarves, sweetly enticing, petitely slim, supple in movement requiring amazing muscle strength, and wonderful interpreters of a mysterious 5,000 year culture we’re eager to understand...The scarf and fan dances proved totally fascinating -- first for the constantly changing patterns of swirling silk colors, but also in watching how the dancers keep the 20 foot long streamers separate...and how their supple arms have the stamina to keep up the wide swinging motions.”
~ Nelda Stuck, Redlands Daily Facts

• “The Lily Cai Chinese Dance features timeless elements which often surprise audiences by their fresh contemporary look at everything from romance to the exuberant spectacle of the Chinese ribbon dance.”
~ Center for the Arts Magazine