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Cheng Tsung-lung (鄭宗龍) recently premiered Send in a Cloud, the artistic director’s second piece since he took the helm of Cloud Gate Dance Theater (雲門舞集) in 2020 from founder Lin Hwai-min (林懷民). And judging by the Taipei performance, he’s living up to Lin’s legacy.
Its Chinese title, Xia (霞), evokes a panorama of changing colors across the horizon, which Cloudgate has brought to life on stage.
Cheng says the performance was inspired by the bustling streets of Taipei’s Wanhua District (萬華), where he grew up, and his experimentation with hip-hop dance moves in this new work adds a new sense of
Cloud Gate Dance Theatre is to present its new work, Send in a Cloud (霞), in Taichung and Kaohsiung from Saturday next week to May 8, after recently premiering two versions of the piece, which explores human emotions, at Taipei’s National Theater.
While the two versions share the same music 12 pieces from Johann Sebastian Bach’s six unaccompanied cello suites arranged and performed by Japanese musician Yasuaki Shimizu with saxophonettes and images projected on the stage’s backdrop, one version has 12 dancers and the other 13, the dance troupe said on Wednesday.
Cheng Tsung-lung (鄭宗龍), Cloud Gate’s artistic director since
Taipei, April 20 (CNA) Cloud Gate Dance Theatre will present its new work "Send in a Cloud" in Taichung and Kaohsiung from April 30 to May 8, after recently premiering two versions of the piece which explores human emotions at Taipei's National Theater.