Cloud Gate Dance Theater

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Legacy final applause for Cloud Gate Dance Theater at Chiang Kai-shek National Memorial Hall , 2014

The Cloud Gate Dance Theater ( Chinese  雲 門 舞 集 , Pinyin Yúnmén wǔjí ) is a Taiwanese modern dance company. It was founded in 1973 by Lin Hwai-min in Taipei and is Taiwan's first professional dance company. The name Cloud Gate ( yunmen雲 門) refers to ancient Chinese sources for the dances at the court of Emperor Huangdi . The company is also recognized worldwide for its classical Chinese repertoire. Her best-known pieces include Songs of the Wanderers (1994), Moon Water (1998), Bamboo Dream (2001) and Cursive (2001). Connected to the company is the Cloud Gate Dance Theater 2 , which was founded in 1999 by the former Cloud Gate dancer and choreographer Lo Man-fei羅曼菲.

history

Since it was founded in 1973, with the exception of a two-year hiatus from 1988 to 1991, the Cloud Gate Dance Theater has performed approximately 160 pieces. In terms of content, the spectrum ranges from classical literature, folk tales, Taiwanese history to social issues and avant-garde attempts. The performances took place u. a. at the Taipeh National Theater Concert Hall , on stages in other major cities, in the provinces, in stadiums or in rural school halls. Open-air performances are found in Taiwan’s cities every year, the largest of which attract around 60,000 visitors. After the performance, the audience hardly leaves any rubbish, thus establishing a tradition for gatherings in public places. Taiwanese dancers emerged from the Cloud Gate Dance Theater, including Lin Hsiu-wei林秀偉, Lo Man-fei and Liou Shaw-lu劉紹 爐. Some founded their own dance companies such as The Tai Gu Tales Dance Theater by Lin Hsiu-wei and the Taipei Dance Circle by Liou Shaw-lu. Cloud Gate's dancers are mostly graduates from dance seminars at Taiwanese universities with training in modern dance, ballet , Peking opera , Taijiquan- derived movement techniques, meditation and Chinese boxing.

In 1998 the company founded its own dance class, in which teaching material created by long-time dancers called the life pulse is used. Schoolchildren should be introduced to self-study in which they then get to know their bodies and develop their own rhythm of life. In May 1999 the offshoot Cloud Gate Dance Theater 2 was created , which is intended to reach schools and rural areas in particular. The annual Chinese New Year program called Spring Riot ( Chun dou春 鬥) features a work by a young Taiwanese choreographer. In 2000, an “Art at Colleges” program was launched in which around 2,300 students took part. In 2007 the program “Art in every district: the dance company comes to the communities and cultivates the soil for art.” Furthermore, the company traveled through the country after natural disasters for charity events for reconstruction, for the first time after the great earthquake in 1999 and most recently in 2009 after the typhoon Morakot.

The new rehearsal studio for the Cloud Gate Dance Theater near Tamsui

In the early morning of February 11, 2008, a fire broke out in the Company's training rooms in Bali County, Taipei County . The work utensils for the performances and the archive were almost completely destroyed. The district council then approved financial support for a new training facility, which was temporarily found in the former building of Radio Taiwan International in Tamsui . A donation campaign by dance fans raised a sum of US $ 12 million, with which the dance company was able to build a new rehearsal studio, which is also located at Tamsui.

The company has performed around 1700 times on over two hundred stages in Taiwan, the USA, Asia and Australia. In 2004 and 2005, Cloud Gate won the Taishin Arts Award for Cursive II and Wild Cursive ( Kuangcao狂草) . In 2006, at the invitation of the German magazines Ballett International and Theater heute , European critics selected the three works from the Cursive trilogy as the best pieces of the year.

Honors (selection)

In 1999 the founder Lin Hwai-min received the Ramon Magsaysay Award .

In 2003, Taipei City Council named the day of the first public appearance on August 21st "Cloud Gate Day" and renamed the alley where the company's office is located to "Cloud Gate Alley". On July 25, 2007, the asteroid (200025) 2007 OK 10 was discovered by the Lulin Observatory and named Cloud Gate .

Literature (selection)

  • Yang Mengyu 楊孟瑜: Stormy Dance: The Story of Lin Hwai-min and the Cloud Gate Dance Theater. ( Biaowu: Lin Huaimin yu Yunmen chuanqi飆 舞 ： 林懷民 與 雲 門 傳奇) Commonwealth Publishing (Tianxia wenhua), Taipei 1998, ISBN 957-621-497-1 (Chinese).
  • Jochen Schmidt : In the seventh heaven of dance. The Cloud Gate Dance Theater from Taipei is on a European tour for the first time . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . No. 218 , September 21, 1981, features section, p. 23 .

Documentaries (selection)

  • Between Heaven and Earth - The Cloud Gate Dance Theater from Taiwan. TV report, Germany, 2012, 6 min., Moderation: Cécile Schortmann , production: 3sat , editing: Kulturzeit , first broadcast: May 9, 2012 on 3sat, synopsis by ARD .
  • Lin Hwai-min - Wanderer Between Worlds. (Alternative title: Lin Hwai-min - Interface between worlds. ) Documentary film, Germany, 2009, 43:30 min., Script and director: Jean-Christophe Blavier, production: moving angel, 3sat , ZDF Theaterkanal , first broadcast: May 2, 2009 on ZDFtheaterkanal, table of contents with video excerpt from moving angel.
  • Cloud Gate - Cursive II. Dance film, Germany, 2005, 25 min., Director: Ross MacGibbon , music: John Cage , production: arte , synopsis by ARD . (DVD, 147 min., ISBN 978-0-7697-0952-9 .)
  • A jump as a dance, a landing as a melody. Thirty years of Cloud Gate. (OT: Yong wu. Ta ge Yunmen sanshi.踊 舞． 踏歌 雲 門 30). Documentary, Taiwan, 2003, written and directed by Chang Chao-tang張照 堂.
  • Cloud Gate Dance Theater: Songs of the Wanderers. Dance film, Germany, Netherlands, Taiwan, 1999, 59 min., Director: Misjel Vermeiren, music: Georgian folk songs, production: Reiner E. Moritz , RM Arts, film data from IMDb .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Rites of Zhou write the chapter on the Grand Master of Music dances Yunmen雲門( "Cloud Gate") and Dàjuǎn大卷( "grand unification") the Emperor Huangdi to. See the translation by Édouard Biot , Le Tcheou-li, Paris 1851, volume 2, p. 29, note 5. “Ils enseignent aux fils de l'État les danses musicales; ils leur font exécuter les danses appelées Yúnmén, porte des nuages, et Dàjuǎn, grande réunion, […] ”Note 5:“ Comm. B. Le texte cite ici les airs de musique créés par les fondateurs des six premières familles impériales et conservés par les Zhou. Les deux premiers sont ceux de Huangdi, et ne forment ici qu'une seule musique. "(Transcription adapted) In the original: 《周禮》: 春 官 宗伯: 大 司 樂:" 掌 成 均 之 法 [...]以 樂舞 教 國 子 舞 《云 門》 、 《大卷》 、 […] “. The official website of the dance company cloudgate.org.tw ( memento from September 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) and also the Chinese Wikipedia page zh: 雲 門 舞 集 refer to the book Spring and Autumn of Lü Buwei , but the exact Wording cannot be localized.
  2. ↑ Official website: Cloud Gate Dance Theater 2
  3. ↑ 雲 門 舞 集 重生 進駐 淡水 央 廣 舊址. ( Memento of April 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). In: Liberty Times , April 14, 2009, (Chinese).
  4. ↑ Donors give NT $ 370m to Cloud Gate. In: Taipei Times , July 15, 2008.
  5. ↑ 小行星 命名 雲 門 林懷民 分享 榮耀. ( Memento of May 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). In: Apple Daily , April 30, 2010 (Chinese). See also the Wikipedia article in English .