Focus Taiwan
Date: 07/03/2020
By: Chao Ching-yu and Kay Liu

Taipei, July 3 (CNA) Cloud Gate Dance Theatre said Friday that its annual free outdoor performances will this year be replaced by online shows of past pieces and a series of community events, due to the COVID-19 coronavirus concerns.

Cloud Gate, with its sponsor Cathay Financial Holding Co., has held free outdoor performances at locations across Taiwan every summer since 1996, other than when bad weather prevented such events.

In 2019, the group estimated that nearly 50,000 people attended its outdoor performance in the square between Taipei's National Theater and Concert Hall showing a selection of highlights from Cloud Gate founder Lin Hwai-min's (林懷民) past works after he announced plans to retire later that year.    [FULL  STORY]