Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/12/08
By: Wang Yi-ju and Elizabeth Hsu
Taipei, Dec. 8 (CNA) To mark the Cloud Gate Dance Theatre’s upcoming founding
Lin Hwai-min (林懷民, left) and Barry Lam (林百里)
anniversary, a Taiwanese business mogul and patron of the arts has decided to pay homage to the internationally acclaimed dance troupe by publishing a “collection-grade” book of photographs featuring the beauty and power of its dance works.
Quanta Computer Chairman Barry Lam (林百里), a philanthropist who donates money for culture and education in Taiwan, said he came up with the idea of publishing the book of photos featuring Cloud Gate dances in 2015, when the actual theater where the dance company is based, was inaugurated in Tamsui, New Taipei City.
That day, Lam said, he saw the exhibition of Cloud Gate dance photos by local photographer Liu Chen-hsiang (劉振祥).
“I was deeply touched by those pictures, which put together the most painstaking and beautiful images of Cloud Gate (dancers),” Lam recalled, speaking at the book release ceremony on Friday. [FULL STORY]
