WILD CURSIVE...
| Lin Hwai-min proves himself as a visionary choreographer in this mammoth work, whose dance language is rooted in the East yet internationally understood.
Cloud Gate Dance Theatre . . . demonstrates with this trilogy how the traditional and the modern can be confidently combined such that both shine. |
| --Süddeutsche Zeitung |
| Lin has extrapolated the Chinese movement philosophy and translated it into a wonderful artistic language.
The way the lines flows into one another in the ensemble scenes, the way the energy flies in all directions before pulling together – it is all of great visual beauty. The Cloud Gate dancers understand how to coordinate body and spirit like a good calligrapher. Lin Hwai-min demonstrates a dance-like meditation and to behold this dance is to undergo a wonderful act of contemplation. breathtaking |
| --Der Tagesspiegel |
| These Taiwanese dancers . . . controlled the entire stage . . . with a physical precision without any restraint. The audience applauded with standing ovation. When has one ever seen a company with such magical and beautiful body? |
| --Neues Deutschland |
