Photo Flash: Taiwan's Cloud Gate 2 Rehearses 'Spring Riot' Dance
By: Jessica Lewis Mar. 23, 2011
Yesterday, March 22, dancers from the Cloud Gate 2 Dance Company rehearsed the 'Spring Riot' number in anticipation of the March 23 performance. BroadwayWorld brings you dress reheasal coverage below.
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.
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.
For more information, visit http://www.cloudgate.org.tw/.
Photos: Wu Ching-Teng/Xinhua/ZUMAPress.com
Artists Rehearse 'Spring Riot' Dance
Artists Rehearse 'Spring Riot' Dance
Artists Rehearse 'Spring Riot' Dance
Artists Rehearse 'Spring Riot' Dance
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