WHAT HAS BEEN SAID ABOUT
NINE SONGS....
 
One of the most important dance works of our time.....audience celebrates the ensemble with overwhelming ovations.
 
--Jochen Schmidt
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Germany
A work of epic resonance and contemporary relevance.

Lin Hwai-min has choreographed a striking pictorial spectacle. The effect is that of a huge Chinese scroll in which movements fill in the unfurling landscape with a series of economical brush strokes.

The two hour piece is both poetic in its meditative beauty and occasionally exasperating in its very richness.

An eye-filling and thought-provoking spectacle
 
--Anna Kisselgoff
The New York Times, U.S.A
This brilliant new full-length work will take the modern dance world by storm. It will also elevate Lin Hwai-min, unchallenged giant in Asia, to the ultimate level occupied by only a tiny handful including his early mentors, Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham: one of the greats of the 20th century.

He seduces the senses with his intoxicating fusion of East and West, past and present ...the primitive and the cerebral.....For two unforgettable hours the audience was transported -- ultimately to heaven.

If ever a work was fashioned for the Asian body and soul, it is this one.

The movements, flowing and fusing like mercury to encompass age-old traditions from Bali to Tibet, demand awesome control, suppleness, speed and strength -all possessed by Cloud Gate's phenomenal dancers.
 
--Zelda Cawthorne
South China Morning Post, Hong Kong
To appreciate Lin's achievement, imagine taking biblical texts and being able to express through movement their wisdom and stories, all the while relating them to events that spanned centuries.
 
--Raura Bleiberg
The Orange County Register
The dancing of 24 members of the group is fascinating and virtuoso.
The audience did not experience an exotic evening with colorful folklore, but a breathtakin art of movements.
 
--Elfriede Schmidt
Darmstadter Echo, Germany
The technical perfection of the dancers is breathtaking.
 
--Ruediger Engerth
Salzburger Nachrichten, Austria
Lin,a student of Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham, presents tradition in delicate, poetic images in which the dance is as expressive and electrifying as in the aesthetics of his teachers.
 
--Gerald Siegmund
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Germany
The biggest surprise to us is, however, how successful Lin Hwai-min and his ensemble have harmoniously blended Oriental and Occidental forms of artistic expression. Nine Songs is a perfect example which shows that without losing one's ethnic roots Orient and Occident can be combined -- almost like an Utopian prediction of East and West finally binding together.
 
--Horst Koegler
Stuttgart Zeitung, Germany
The audience is immediately fascinated by this metaphorical expression of Far Eastern mystic. It is a spectacle which combines, in a similar fashion as original shaman dances, life, death and reincarnation - heaven and earth - gods and human beings, and unite these opposites on a transcendental level where everything vibrates in a harmonic rhythm.
 
--Roland Langer
Wiesbadener Kurier, Germany
An exciting mixture of rites and modern dance. The audience experiences a play full of shamanistic powers, a conjuration of transcendental unity between heaven and earth in an everlasting rhythm.
 
--Roland Langer
Frankfurter Rundschau, Germany
It seamlessly adapted a variety of Asian aesthetics......Every dapple of light and curve of muscle is an event.
 
--Pamela Squires
The Washington Post, U.S.A
You gave in to the magic. You lost all feeling for time. The audience was thrilled.
 
--Von H.G. Pribil
Wiener Zeitung, Vienna, Austria
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