Taiwan's Cloudgate Dance Theatre

grace · **Posted:** Tue Aug 22, 2000 4:34 am

olympics arts festival - jill sykes in sydney reviews Nine Songs and anticipates Moon Water: <A HREF="http://www.smh.com.au/news/0008/22/text/features18.html" TARGET=_blank>http://www.smh.com.au/news/0008/22/text/features18.html</A>

grace · **Posted:** Mon Aug 28, 2000 5:35 am

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Choreographer Lin Hwai-min has based Moon Water on tai chi, which gives it a natural rhythm and a visible pulse from the energy of breathing that propels one action smoothly towards the next. - - - It is fascinating to observe the relationship of influences from tai chi and American modern dance, with its deep contractions and powerful centredness. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>jill sykes review for SMH of "Moon Water": <A HREF="http://www.smh.com.au/news/0008/28/text/features19.html" TARGET=_blank>http://www.smh.com.au/news/0008/28/text/features19.html</A>

grace · **Posted:** Tue Aug 29, 2000 3:56 am

cloudgate perform at maison de la danse, lyon, two different programmes:

SONGS OF THE WANDERERS, creation for France - september 21 - 14 <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Lin Hwai-Min is Asia's leading choreographer. A spiritual journey - a quest for beauty and serenity - is the subject of this first work, performed under a rain of golden rice. These superb dancers have been trained in meditation, tai chi, Chinese opera, modern dance and ballet.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>maison de la danse link to cloudgate pages: <A HREF="http://www.maisondeladanse.com/angl/prog/00_01/frame.htm" TARGET=_blank>http://www.maisondeladanse.com/angl/prog/00_01/frame.htm</A> and MOON WATER, september 26 - 30. <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>For the Chinese, Suei Yuei ("Moonwater") is doubly evocative. Firstly of the Buddhist proverb, "Flowers seen in a mirror and the moon reflected in water are equally illusory"; and secondly of the tai chi adept's ideal of "energy flowing like water while the spirit shines like the moon". Lin Hwai-Min has drawn on these poetic sources for this new work using Bach's suites for cello. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

grace · **Posted:** Thu Nov 02, 2000 7:28 am

Song of the Wanderers at BAM: <A HREF="http://www.theatre.com/news/public/newsprint.asp?newsid=9418" TARGET=_blank>http://www.theatre.com/news/public/newsprint.asp?newsid=9418</A> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>The piece was inspired in part by Herman Hesse's novel "Siddhartha," and Lin Hwai-min blends theater elements with Western dance techniques in a style that is Zen-like and beautiful.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Stuart Sweeney · **Posted:** Fri Nov 03, 2000 6:22 am

In case you were wondering, yes that rice does rain down on him for the whole 80 minutes or so of the production.

Priscilla · **Posted:** Sun Nov 19, 2000 12:39 am

At this page -- <A HREF="http://www.bam.org/asp/performance.asp?perfID=SongsoftheWanderers" TARGET=_blank>http://www.bam.org/asp/performance.asp?perfID=SongsoftheWanderers</A> -- is a color version of the "flinging" picture above.

ncgnet · **Joined:** Sun Oct 27, 2002 12:01 am **Posts:** 1845

From Marcia Siegel in the Boston Phoenix, a review of a NYC Cloud Gate performance:

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Dancing chi
Cloud Gate’s Moon Water at BAM

NEW YORK — Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan claims many Asian and non-Asian influences in its work. The dancers study ballet and Graham-based modern dance, and there’s evidence they’ve worked with tai chi, Chinese opera, trance meditation, and even a bit of Japanese butoh in their exquisite 1998 stage tableau Moon Water, which they performed at Brooklyn Academy’s Howard Gilman Opera House last week. But the thing is, when a choreographic idea assumes major force, it supersedes whatever influences have propelled it. Lin Hwai-min, Cloud Gate’s founder/artistic director and choreographer, shouldn’t be considered any more derivative than Paul Taylor or Twyla Tharp.

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