MOCA Taipei_Cloud Gate 2, Oculus

The 6th Taishin Arts Award Exhibition - Cloud Gate 2, Oculus

CLOUD GATE 2 / Biography
According to legend, Cloud Gate is the name of the oldest known dance in China, a ritual dance of some 5,000 years ago. In 1973, choreographer Lin Hwai-min adopted this classical name for the first contemporary dance company in any Chinese speaking community: Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan.

In 1999, Lin Hwai-min founded Cloud Gate 2 to foster young choreographers and develop education and outreach programs through its performances, workshops, lecture-demonstrations and residency projects on campuses and grass-root communities in Taiwan.
Upon founding Cloud Gate 2, Lin Hwai-min invited the renowned dancer/choreographer Lo Man-fei to serve as its Founding Artistic Director. Lo's works with Cloud Gate 2 include Pursuing the Dream (2006), All about Love (2005) and Spring in the Hospital (2004). After Lo passed away with cancer in March 2006, Lin Hwai-min resumed artistic direction of the company.
Cloud Gate 2 has and continues to invite talented choreographers in collaboration. Among them, Wu Kuo-chu choreographed Oculus (2004), ATE (2002), Life is Else-where (2002) and Tantalus (2001); and Indigenous choreographer Bulareyaung Pagarlava created Gloaming (2006), Foreseen (2005), Monday 2:10PM (2004), Lily (2002), UMA (2001) and Passage (2000).
Cloud Gate 2 has successfully extended its intercultural outreach to China by participating in the "2001 Modern Dance Festival in China" and presenting lecture-demonstrations at prominent universities in Beijing, Shanghai and Soochow.

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• Taipei
• Taishin
• Arts
• Award
• Exhibition
• Cloud
• Gate
• Oculus

[chrisfosk]

what is about the Backround?

[zerlth]

can someone tell me what oculus is about?

[omyogagal]

They will be performing "Moon Water" at Vancouver this coming weekend, if you could make it.

[wodek1]

Thank you for the info. I saw a short film about Lin Hwai- Min on Deutche Welle a year ago. I have to make sure to see them live. They were just in Washington but I couldn't go. Perhaps I will travel to Barcelona in July to see them. Sheer genius.

[omyogagal]

This is not Lin's choreography. The choreagrapher was Wu Guo-zhu. Wu was a brilliant young choreagrapher but passed away two years ago :-(

[mormorshka]

Fasntastic!!! 8-) Так красиво, волшебно, несказанно, что дух захватывает!

[utopiazea]

sublime, cálido, tan intenso!!

[aaron90531]

This is so touching....

[extrank]

This is beautiful. Thanks for posting it.