Lin's dance comes full circle
5 years, 1 month ago

Lin's dance comes full circle

China Daily  

Choreographer Lin Hwai-min's work, Autumn River. The video is a montage showing running water flowing through stones, which serves as the background of Lin's choreographic work, Autumn River, set to be staged that night. As will I," says the 72-year-old Lin, who, on Dec 31 will step down as artistic director of Cloud Gate Dance Theatre－a position he has held since 1973, when he founded Cloud Gate as the first modern dance company for Chinese-speaking communities. The 30-minute piece was inspired by Lin's trip to Japan, where he saw a river in a suburban area of Kyoto and red leaves floating on the quietly flowing water. It premiered at the Cloud Gate Dance Theatre in Taiwan in 2015, but has not been staged since then.

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Send in a Cloud gives dance a new horizon
1 year, 1 month ago

Send in a Cloud gives dance a new horizon

China Daily  

The Cloud Gate Dance Theatre's production, Send in a Cloud, is scheduled to be staged at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing from Dec 7-10. Each individual's state of mind is much like the clouds, says Cheng Tsunglung, a choreographer and the artistic director of Cloud Gate Dance Theatre. With the company's production Send in a Cloud, …

Send in a Cloud gives dance a new horizon
1 year, 1 month ago

Send in a Cloud gives dance a new horizon

China Daily  

The Cloud Gate Dance Theatre's production, Send in a Cloud, is scheduled to be staged at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing from Dec 7-10. Each individual's state of mind is much like the clouds, says Cheng Tsunglung, a choreographer and the artistic director of Cloud Gate Dance Theatre. With the company's production Send in a Cloud, …

Send in a Cloud gives dance a new horizon
1 year, 1 month ago

Send in a Cloud gives dance a new horizon

China Daily  

The Cloud Gate Dance Theatre's production, Send in a Cloud, is scheduled to be staged at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing from Dec 7-10. Each individual's state of mind is much like the clouds, says Cheng Tsunglung, a choreographer and the artistic director of Cloud Gate Dance Theatre. With the company's production Send in a Cloud, …

Send in a Cloud gives dance a new horizon
1 year, 1 month ago

Send in a Cloud gives dance a new horizon

China Daily  

The Cloud Gate Dance Theatre's production, Send in a Cloud, is scheduled to be staged at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing from Dec 7-10. Each individual's state of mind is much like the clouds, says Cheng Tsunglung, a choreographer and the artistic director of Cloud Gate Dance Theatre. With the company's production Send in a Cloud, …

Send in a Cloud gives dance a new horizon
1 year, 1 month ago

Send in a Cloud gives dance a new horizon

China Daily  

The design of the projected background is based on drawings made by the dancers. The music of the production features Bach's Six Solo Cello Suites, arranged by Japanese composer and saxophonist Yasuaki Shimizu, with the sound design by Grammy Award-winning artist Marcelo Anez. Founded by veteran choreographer Lin Hwai-min in Taiwan in 1973 and named after the oldest known dance …

A life of silver linings
5 years, 9 months ago

A life of silver linings

China Daily  

Dust, choreographed by Lin Hwai-min to Shostakovich's String Quartet No 8 in C minor, premiered in 2014. Unlike most Western modern dance companies, Cloud Gate's dancers practice tai chi, kung fu, meditation and their early works feature stories about Chinese myths and legends. Time magazine described Cloud Gate as "Asia's leading contemporary dance theatre" and his work Moon Water was …

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