- 10% off for Friends of Cloud Gate
- Presenter: Weiwuying
- Duration is 65 minutes without intermission.
- Age guidance 7+
- The performance contains glare, smoke, and loud noise. Audience discretion is advised.
- Latecomers must follow staff instructions for entry and re-entry.
- For Group Purchase Discounts, please contact 07-262-6666.
- More Offers
- 10% off for Weiwuying Lifestyle member
- 25% off for Weiwuying Youth member
- Weiwuying Unlimited member: 30% ticket discount for your first purchase. The additional ticket discount same as Lifestyle members.
- For details, please see Weiwuying Members Benefit
WAVES by CHENG Tsung-lung
Talent and skill require no translation... it's only right that they should be shared with the rest of the world.——The New York Times
When you're talking about Cloud Gate, magic is not too strong a word.——Time Out
Dancers of the Cloud Gate possess a control and articulation that verge on the superhuman…In fact, they have the power to change your metabolism.——Chicago Sun-Times
CHENG Tsung-lung, Artistic Director and choreographer of Cloud Gate, selected as 50 Contemporary Choreographers by Routledge Publishing, creates new work WAVES for Cloud Gate's 50th anniversary. CHENG invites renowned digital artist Daito MANABE together to imagine the unseen body.
MANABE, founder of media studio Rhizomatiks in Tokyo, is a composer, digital artist, DJ and programmer. MANABE's augmented-reality design for 2016 Rio Olympics Closing Ceremony showcasing Japan's technology and creativity has made him a known figure beyond the digital arts world. Over the years, he has collaborated with iconic artists Bjork, Perfume, and OK Go.
CHENG and MANABE explore what WAVES, in forms of energies, could transmit from the body, across spatial surfaces, mediums and humans. Waves transmit tangible objects and intangible elements. Set out to collect dancing body movements as digital data, metamorphose through artificial intelligence, CHENG and MANABE explore with dancers the boundaries of human movements in cognition, and provide an alternative perspective of how we see the world around us.
Pre-talk
11.4 Sat. 14:00 Opera House 2F
11.5 Sun. 14:00 Opera House 2F
Post-talk
11.4 Sat. After performance at Opera House Stage
Host: CHENG, Tsung-lung / Artistic Director of Cloud Gate
Creative and Production Team
Choreography / Concept｜CHENG Tsung-lung
Concept / Visual / Music / Program｜Daito MANABE
Lighting Design｜SHEN Po-hung
Costume Design｜FAN Huai-chih
Perform｜Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan
Co-production｜
National Theater & Concert Hall
National Taichung Theater
National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying)
Artists Introduction
CHENG TSUNG-LUNG Artistic Director / Choreographer
From street hawker selling slippers to internationally recognized choreographer, CHENG Tsung-lung became Artistic Director of Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan in 2020 after he succeeded the company's founder LIN Hwai-min. CHENG is best known for works inspired by the street life and folk religion elements that were part of his upbringing in Taipei. His recent creations include 13 Tongues (2016), which received rave reviews in France, Germany, the UK and China; Lunar Halo (2019), which is set to music by Sigur Rós and hailed widely as a work of "fierce beauty"; Sounding Light (2020), which reflects on the relationship between human and nature during the COVID pandemic and is praised as a "beautifully crafted work, bearing repeated viewings"; and Send In A Cloud (2022) which displays in shifting colors a panorama of dancers' personal life journeys. CHENG has been a fixture of Routledge's respected annual survey of dance practitioners, Fifty Contemporary Choreographers (2020), alongside the likes of William Forsythe, Akram Khan, Hofesh Shechter and leaders in the form.
DAITO MANABE Artist / Programmer / DJ.
Launched Rhizomatiks in 2006. Specially-appointed professor at Keio University SFC.
MANABE's works, which range into a variety of fields, take a new approach to everyday materials and phenomena. However, his end goal is not simply rich, high-definition realism by recognizing and recombining these familiar elemental building blocks. Rather, his practice is informed by careful observation to discover and elucidate the essential potentialities inherent to the human body, data, programming, computers, and other phenomena, thus probing the interrelationships and boundaries delineating the analog and digital, real and virtual.
CLOUD GATE DANCE THEATRE OF TAIWAN
Founded in 1973 by internationally renowned choreographer, LIN Hwai-min, Cloud Gate is acclaimed as "Asia's leading contemporary dance theater" (The Times), and "One of the finest dance companies in the world" (The Globe and Mail). While touring extensively worldwide, Cloud Gate holds regular seasons in theaters at home, and stages annual free outdoor performances in cities and villages of Taiwan, drawing an average of 30,000 people per performance. From 2020, CHENG Tsung-lung succeeded LIN as the Artistic Director of Cloud Gate. In 2023, Cloud Gate ushers in its 50th anniversary.
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PHOTO 李佳曄
WAVES by CHENG Tsung-lung
Talent and skill require no translation... it's only right that they should be shared with the rest of the world.——The New York Times
When you're talking about Cloud Gate, magic is not too strong a word.——Time Out
Dancers of the Cloud Gate possess a control and articulation that verge on the superhuman…In fact, they have the power to change your metabolism.——Chicago Sun-Times
CHENG Tsung-lung, Artistic Director and choreographer of Cloud Gate, selected as 50 Contemporary Choreographers by Routledge Publishing, creates new work WAVES for Cloud Gate's 50th anniversary. CHENG invites renowned digital artist Daito MANABE together to imagine the unseen body.
MANABE, founder of media studio Rhizomatiks in Tokyo, is a composer, digital artist, DJ and programmer. MANABE's augmented-reality design for 2016 Rio Olympics Closing Ceremony showcasing Japan's technology and creativity has made him a known figure beyond the digital arts world. Over the years, he has collaborated with iconic artists Bjork, Perfume, and OK Go.
CHENG and MANABE explore what WAVES, in forms of energies, could transmit from the body, across spatial surfaces, mediums and humans. Waves transmit tangible objects and intangible elements. Set out to collect dancing body movements as digital data, metamorphose through artificial intelligence, CHENG and MANABE explore with dancers the boundaries of human movements in cognition, and provide an alternative perspective of how we see the world around us.
Pre-talk
11.4 Sat. 14:00 Opera House 2F
11.5 Sun. 14:00 Opera House 2F
Post-talk
11.4 Sat. After performance at Opera House Stage
Host: CHENG, Tsung-lung / Artistic Director of Cloud Gate
Creative and Production Team
Choreography / Concept｜CHENG Tsung-lung
Concept / Visual / Music / Program｜Daito MANABE
Lighting Design｜SHEN Po-hung
Costume Design｜FAN Huai-chih
Perform｜Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan
Co-production｜
National Theater & Concert Hall
National Taichung Theater
National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying)
Artists Introduction
CHENG TSUNG-LUNG Artistic Director / Choreographer
From street hawker selling slippers to internationally recognized choreographer, CHENG Tsung-lung became Artistic Director of Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan in 2020 after he succeeded the company's founder LIN Hwai-min. CHENG is best known for works inspired by the street life and folk religion elements that were part of his upbringing in Taipei. His recent creations include 13 Tongues (2016), which received rave reviews in France, Germany, the UK and China; Lunar Halo (2019), which is set to music by Sigur Rós and hailed widely as a work of "fierce beauty"; Sounding Light (2020), which reflects on the relationship between human and nature during the COVID pandemic and is praised as a "beautifully crafted work, bearing repeated viewings"; and Send In A Cloud (2022) which displays in shifting colors a panorama of dancers' personal life journeys. CHENG has been a fixture of Routledge's respected annual survey of dance practitioners, Fifty Contemporary Choreographers (2020), alongside the likes of William Forsythe, Akram Khan, Hofesh Shechter and leaders in the form.
DAITO MANABE Artist / Programmer / DJ.
Launched Rhizomatiks in 2006. Specially-appointed professor at Keio University SFC.
MANABE's works, which range into a variety of fields, take a new approach to everyday materials and phenomena. However, his end goal is not simply rich, high-definition realism by recognizing and recombining these familiar elemental building blocks. Rather, his practice is informed by careful observation to discover and elucidate the essential potentialities inherent to the human body, data, programming, computers, and other phenomena, thus probing the interrelationships and boundaries delineating the analog and digital, real and virtual.
CLOUD GATE DANCE THEATRE OF TAIWAN
Founded in 1973 by internationally renowned choreographer, LIN Hwai-min, Cloud Gate is acclaimed as "Asia's leading contemporary dance theater" (The Times), and "One of the finest dance companies in the world" (The Globe and Mail). While touring extensively worldwide, Cloud Gate holds regular seasons in theaters at home, and stages annual free outdoor performances in cities and villages of Taiwan, drawing an average of 30,000 people per performance. From 2020, CHENG Tsung-lung succeeded LIN as the Artistic Director of Cloud Gate. In 2023, Cloud Gate ushers in its 50th anniversary.
Sponsor
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PHOTO 李佳曄
- 10% off for Friends of Cloud Gate
- Presenter: Weiwuying
- Duration is 65 minutes without intermission.
- Age guidance 7+
- The performance contains glare, smoke, and loud noise. Audience discretion is advised.
- Latecomers must follow staff instructions for entry and re-entry.
- For Group Purchase Discounts, please contact 07-262-6666.
- More Offers
- 10% off for Weiwuying Lifestyle member
- 25% off for Weiwuying Youth member
- Weiwuying Unlimited member: 30% ticket discount for your first purchase. The additional ticket discount same as Lifestyle members.
- For details, please see Weiwuying Members Benefit
