Little Pear Garden Dance Company
Dancing on drums is an ancient dance form in the Han Dynasty (202 BC – 9 AD, 25–220 AD) in China. Guqin, Xun, Guzheng, and Chinese drums are all traditional Chinese musical instruments with thousands of years of history. Little Pear Garden Dance Company presents their piece, Retrospect in the hope that the audience can follow the artists as they look back at history and classical culture. The piece begins with a storyteller as they lead the audience into the Ismaili Centre, they awaken two contemporary characters who symbolize the modern human that is numbed by the work and pressure that they endure everyday, to the unfolding presentation of classical music and dance that have been encapsulated in clay sculptures made thousands of years ago.