Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers

Thu.-Sat., March 18-20, 8 p.m., $25, Painted Bride Art Center, 230 Vine St., 215-925-9914, paintedbride.org.

by Christine Adkins

Gabriel Bienczycki

dance

Opposites make up Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers' spring program, "Autumn Skin: Journey of East/West." In Traces of Brush, Lin's calligraphy-inspired piece taking a traditional Asian approach, seven figures move seamlessly across the stage, tracing outlines of one another as soft music accents a poetry reading. The piece relates the four elements of calligraphy: ink, brush, inkstone and paper, to the four elements of dance: body, energy, time and space. But when the curtain reopens for Autumn Skin, Lin's newest piece, street-clad, energetic dancers step lively to contemporary tunes in a piece as modern and vibrant as the first is traditional. These two distinct works combine to embody the glaring and subtle differences between Eastern and Western culture, says Lin, one piece contradicting the other like yin and yang.