Name: Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan | 13 TONGUES
Start: 2024-10-26T19:30:00-04:00
End: 2024-10-26T21:30:00-04:00
Location: Power Center for The Performing Arts

Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan | 13 TONGUES

Cloud Gate Dance Theatre returns to Ann Arbor for the first time since 2011 with a “sensationally big, indulgent, and visually arresting expression of cultural memory.” (The Times)
Founded by choreographer Lin Hwai-min in 1973 as the first contemporary dance company in any Chinese-speaking community, Cloud Gate blends its roots in Asian mythology, folklore, and aesthetics with a modern sensibility. In 2020, Lin Hwai-min handed the artistic reins of Cloud Gate to Cheng Tsung-lung, whose work 13 TONGUES recalls his mother’s stories about a legendary street artist in the 1960s. Cheng transforms his childhood memories of Taoist rites and the bustling street life of Bangka (艋舺), the oldest district in Taipei, into a dreamlike fantasy world. Beginning and ending with the sound of a single hand bell, the evocative musical score interweaves Taiwanese folk songs, Taoist chant, and electronica to bring us on a journey from the ancient to the contemporary.
📸 Liu Chen-hsiang