"In the era of the Yellow Emperor, he was a big cloud gate ..."
Hong Kong Arts Festival "Selected Dance Works of Lin Huaimin in the 45th Anniversary of Cloud Gate Dance Collection"
Of course, the story of Cloud Gate Dance Collection should start from Lin Huaimin. He could have become a star in the literary world. Influenced by foreign countries, he returned from studying abroad and became a dancer.
In the early 1970s, young people all over the world were very active. At that time, Lin Huaimin, a teacher studying in the United States, felt that young people had the responsibility and the ability to change the world. Many young people received a little basic medical training, so they took medicine boxes to Shan Ye to help the public with medical care. This range has a great influence on him.
Cloud Gate Dance Collection is a performance of seven cities in Mexico and the United States.
1972, Lin Huaimin returned to Taiwan Province and taught in a university. At this time, the dance department of another university asked him to teach modern dance. Although modern dance was not his major, it was more than enough to teach modern dance in Taiwan Province Province at that time.
When teaching modern dance in Lin Huaimin, the students were very serious about every study and eager to perform, which also inspired Lin Huaimin to set up his own dance troupe in Taiwan Province and give these dancers a platform.
At the earliest, only 1 1 dancers joined the Cloud Gate Dance Collection.
The original idea of Yunmen Dance Collection is to perform for the grassroots in the community and young students on campus.
When the company developed into the 1980s, it performed for street cleaners and bus drivers. Their so-called stage is simply to build a wild platform in the school auditorium and playground, and use a large plastic sheet to keep out the rain.
Once in The Legend of the White Snake, Fahai's first action was to hit the ground with a stick, and as a result, a big hole was made with a hammer, and rain poured on Fahai.
Cloud Gate Dance Collection is such a pure dance company, and it has never been thought to be famous in the world.
Cloud Gate Dance Collection "Yan Song" dances in the rice fields near the pond.
The newly established Cloud Gate Dance Collection quickly jumped out of the entertainment circle, and it took only two years for White Snake to be invited to perform abroad.
The good times didn't last long. 1988 was dissolved due to financial problems.
Lin Huaimin talks about "rice and rice": We are all connected.
Lin Huaimin returned from the United States at the age of 25, founded Cloud Gate at the age of 26, and has been working. Cloud Gate was dissolved, and the manager went to the United States to study and got the EMBA. Technicians and designers go to Yale to study lighting, drama and stage design; Lin Huaimin from Xi to Luoyang, from Dunhuang to Suzhou, from Indonesia to India and other places. I learned about Asian culture. ...
Cloud Gate Dance Collection (Modern Dance) Song of the Wanderer
Three years later, Lin Huaimin returned to school to teach. Even if I am confused, I vaguely feel that Yunmen should come back, but I just can't find the direction of persistence.
The month he just returned to Taiwan Province Province, a taxi driver asked him why he stopped Yunmen Dance Collection. The taxi driver sympathized with the difficulty of maintaining the dance troupe, but he said to Lin Huaimin, "It is also very hard to drive like them and make a living in the traffic. Every industry has its hard side. "
It is such a small opportunity that reminds Lin Huaimin of the original intention of Cloud Gate Band to perform for grassroots people.
Communication between Yunmen Dance Collection and Pottery Body
199 1 year, the cloud gate was re-established. After three years of promotion and experience, this dance company has taken on a new look. When these young people with dreams are reunited, they have more practical experience.
From nine songs, hidden moon to cursive trilogy, a series of shocking works came out. But behind the glamorous stage, dancers rehearse in the tin room and rehearse classic works in the hot tin room in Leng Xia in winter.
In 2008, an inexplicable fire destroyed this "iron rehearsal ground" and made Yunmen encounter a survival dilemma. It was this fire that made the public see the difficulties of the "Light of Taiwan", so funds poured in, and donations at home and abroad reached as high as 4 155 yuan, and Yunmen also built a "new home".
Editor/Dance Lab
References/A Brief History of Yunmen Dance Collection and Interviews with Zheng, Zheng and Zheng.
{Artist's Word} Explore Cloud Gate, the top dance company in Bao Dao, with Lin Huaimin.
Pictures/from the Internet