Cloud Gate 2 Oculus

Cloud Gate 2 Oculus

2013 Dance Festival of NCPA

Venue: National Centre for the Performing Arts - Theatre

Dates: Oct. 25, 2013-Oct. 26, 2013

Price: VIP/580/500/420/300/180 RMB

About

Choreography: Wu Kuo-chu

Music: Georges Bizet, Franco Battiato, Angelo Branduardi, Yaacov Shapiro, Johann Pachelbel

Lighting Design: Lulu W. L. Lee

Set Design: Liu Dar-lurn

Video Installation: Oliver Iserloh

Costume Production: Lin Bing-hao

"Talent and skill require little translation…Cloud Gate 2 has those virtues, it's only right that they should be shared with the rest of the world," declares The New York Times about Cloud Gate 2, a contemporary dance company founded by renowned choreographer Lin Hwai-min in 1999.

Cloud Gate 2 is once again invited by NCPA to present the masterpiece Oculus by the late genius Wu Kuo-chu. Oculus means eye in Latin. It also refers to a circular window in a dome or wall, like the completely exposed opening at the top of the dome in the Pantheon in Rome. Perhaps Wu Kuo-chu is trying to say that within an existence beset by toil and strife there is still a chance that we might bask in the light of the heavens, our hope renewed.

Presenter

Cloud Gate 2

Cloud Gate 2 was founded in 1999 by Lin Hwai-min, the Founder and Artistic Director of Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan, with the late Lo Man-fei, a choreographer and former Cloud Gate dancer, as its Artistic Director. Since Lo's passing in 2006, Lin has acted as the company's director.

Unlike most junior companies, Cloud Gate 2 does not prepare dancers for Cloud Gate, nor does it perform Lin Hwai-min's choreographies. It showcases talented young dancers in original works by innovative young choreographers. The company's annual season, Spring Riot, is one of the most anticipated art events in Taiwan.

The company's current repertoire consists of works by Bulareyaung Pagarlava, who has been twice commissioned to create works for the Martha Graham Dance Company, award-winning Cheng Tsung-lung and Huang Yi, as well as Wu Kuo-chu, the late Artistic Director of the Tanztheater at Staastheater Kassel.

In addition to its concert performances, Cloud Gate 2 also reaches out to tens of thousands of people through residency programs on campuses and grass-roots communities in Taiwan.

Cloud Gate 2 made its first international tour in 2012. Reviewing its New York debut at the Joyce Theater, the New York Times said, 'Talent and skill require little translation... Cloud Gate 2 has those virtues, it's only right that they should be shared with the rest of the world.'