Ravenna Festival
Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan
Songs Of The Wanderers
coreografia
Lin Hwai-Min
musiche canzoni popolari della Georgia cantate dal Coro Rustavi
luci Chang Tsan-Tao
scene Austin Wang
costumi Taurus Wah
ideazione attrezzeria Szu Chien-Hua, Yang Cheng-Yun
Questo tour è stato reso possibile grazie al sostegno del Council for Cultural Affairs, Taiwan e del Ministero degli Affari Esteri, Repubblica di Cina (Taiwan)
Taiwan’s Cloud Gate Dance Theatre owes its name to a Chinese ritual dance, the “Cloud Gate”. The company’s twenty-four dancers are skilled in Tai Chi Tao Yin, meditation, the martial arts, Chinese Opera, modern and classical dance and calligraphy. The result is a clever mix of dance techniques and Eastern and Western theatre. The company was founded in 1973 by choreographer Lin Hwai-Min, who, in Songs of the Wanderers (1994), evokes the cheerful memories of Buddha’s trip to Bodh Gaya, leading the audience into a great purification rite. It is a work on asceticism, on the peaceful flowing of a river, on the research for quietness, while the stage is modelled into a landscape by tons of rice.
