Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/11/24
By: Y.J. Wang and Flor Wang

Taipei, Nov. 24 (CNA) “This is not goodbye, rather it is a move to attract more young artists to Cloud Gate,” Lin Hwai-min (林懷民), artistic director and founder of the Cloud Gate Dance Theatre said Thursday, speaking of his plan to retire.

“Don’t make it sound as if I’m leaving now,” he joked to reporters at a press conference. “I still have two years before I retire.”

Lin, 70, is planning to retire at the end of 2019, after Cloud Gate presented his most recent work Formosa (關於島嶼), which premiered at the National Theatre in Taipei on Thursday.

“I just want to hand it over to someone younger before I become an old mad man,” said Lin, a dancer, writer and choreographer.    [FULL  STORY]