Cloud gate dance collection
Yunmen Dance Collection is a modern dance performance group in Taiwan Province Province, which was founded by Lin Huaimin on 1973 and is the first professional dance troupe in Taiwan Province Province. The name of Cloud Gate comes from a sentence in China's ancient book "Lv's Spring and Autumn Annals": "When the Yellow Emperor was a big cloud gate, it was a big scroll ..." This is the name of China dance in the era of the Yellow Emperor. The affiliated group "Yunmen Dance Collection 2" of Yunmen Dance Collection was founded in 1999, and its artistic director is Manfei Lo.
Cloud Gate Dance Collection is famous for performing many classic works. These include paid biographies, nine songs (dance drama), family chorus, wandering songs, hidden moon, bamboo dreams, walking grass and so on. It was once rated as the first modern dance company in Asia by The Times in London, England, and as a world-class modern dance company by frankfurter allgemeine zeitung.
Yunmen Dance Collection has a group of famous modern dancers such as Lin, Liu Shaolu. Some famous dancers have also set up their own modern dance troupes, such as Lin, Taiguta Dance Troupe and Liu Shaolu.
"When the Yellow Emperor was in the Yellow Emperor, it was a cloud gate scroll ..." Lv Chunqiu.
According to ancient records, "Cloud Gate" is the oldest dance in China. According to legend, it existed in the era of the Yellow Emperor five thousand years ago, and all the dance forms and steps have been lost, leaving only this beautiful dance name.
1973 Spring, Lin Huaimin took "Cloud Gate" as the name of the dance company. This is the first professional dance company in Taiwan Province Province and the first contemporary dance company among all Chinese-speaking societies.
In the past 32 years, there have been more than 150 dances on the Cloud Gate stage. Classical literature, folk stories, the evolution of Taiwan's history and social phenomena, and even the attempt of avant-garde concepts, Yunmen Dance Collection is rich and sophisticated; Because of its popularity, many dance works have been staged repeatedly and become the memory of two or three generations of Taiwan Province society.
From Taipei's National Theatre, county and city cultural centers, gymnasiums and town school auditoriums, Yunmen regularly meets the audience in Taiwan Province Province. In recent years, outdoor performances have been held in cities in turn every year, with an average audience of 60 thousand. After the performance, there was no garbage left in the venue, and a beautiful square culture was established.
Yunmen is also often invited to perform overseas and is a frequent visitor to important international art festivals. In the past 32 years, the troupe has performed 1500 performances on more than 200 stages in Taiwan Province Province, Europe, America, Asia and Australia. With its unique creativity and superb dance skills, it has won warm appreciation from audiences and dance critics all over the world.
Zhong Shi Evening News: The most important living cultural wealth in contemporary Taiwan Province.
Times of London: the first contemporary dance company in Asia.
Frankfurter allgemeine zeitung: a world-class modern dance company.
The Sydney Morning Herald commented that Cloud Gate is the best program of the Olympic Arts Festival.
Yunmen dancers are mostly graduates of domestic dance department, and their training contents include modern dance, ballet, Beijing opera movements, Tai Chi instruction, meditation and boxing.
The Story of Lin Huaimin and Cloud Gate has been written by Yang as Dance and published by Tianxia Culture Company. Zhang Zhaotang's Dance? Public TV station produced and distributed the documentary DVD "Step on Cloud Gate 30". Many of Yunmen's works have been made into dance films, among which Song of a Wanderer, Shui Yue and Zhu Meng, which were shot in the Netherlands, have been broadcast by multinational TV stations and distributed worldwide in the form of DVD. The DVD "Cao Xing Er" filmed in Switzerland will be produced in 2006. In 2003, Yunmen was produced. The DVD of Legend Dance Collection was released by Brother Jin.
1998, Yunmen founded Yunmen Dance Studio, and created the textbook Life Rhythm with many years of professional experience, so that students aged four to eighty-four can know their bodies and create their own life rhythm through enlightening teaching.
1May, 999, 26 years after its establishment, Yunmen established a sub-group "Yunmen Dance Collection 2", which went deep into the campuses and communities of Taiwan Province Province and performed for more audiences. The company's annual performance "Spring Fight" focuses on the works of young choreographers in Taiwan Province Province. In 2000, the art resident activity was warmly praised by college students, and nearly 1200 students took the activity. In 2003, the parent-child dance theater "The Adventures of Bobo" was produced for the first time, setting a record of 18 tours.
In 2003, the Taipei Municipal Government designated August 2 1 the opening day of the 30th anniversary of Yunmen as "Yunmen Day", and named Lane 23 1 of Fuxing North Road, where Yunmen office is located, as "Yunmen Lane", "affirming and thanking Yunmen Dance Collection for its touching and glory to Taipei in the past 30 years. 」
The New York Times selected the best dance in 2003, and Anna, the chief dance critic of the newspaper? Ji Senkov ranked Cloud Gate's Shui Yue in the first place. She said: "Lin Huaimin, the artistic director and choreographer of Yunmen Dance Collection in Taiwan Province Province, has achieved something that artists rarely achieve today: challenging the audience with original works. 」
In 2003, Walking Grass II made its debut at Melbourne Art Festival in Australia and won Time Review? And "the audience voted for the best program". The following year, Xingcaoer won the "2003 Taiwan Province New Performing Arts Award", which was unanimously recognized by audiences at home and abroad.