Radio Taiwan International
Date: 2018-07-18

Lin Hwai-min, founder of the world-renowned Cloud Gate Dance Theatre, has

Lin Hwai-min, founder of the world-renowned Cloud Gate Dance Theatre, has announced that he will retire in 2019 after a career spanning five decades. (Photo by CNA)

announced that he will retire in 2019 after a career spanning five decades.

Cloud Gate Dance Theatre is putting together some of its best dance pieces for an upcoming tour to celebrate the retirement of Lin Hwai-min, the troupe’s founder and its art director for 45 years.

At a press conference on Tuesday, Lin announced his plan to retire next year. He looked back at the history of Cloud Gate and said the group has kept up their creative effort amid the major political and social shifts that Taiwan has undergone in the last four decades.     [FULL  STORY]