Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan show extraordinary finesse but the theme of bodies and technology rarely coheres into anything substantial
November 2023
Lunar Halo by Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan – in pictures
The best theatre to stream this month
The best theatre to stream this month: Cloud Gate, Best of Enemies and more
May 2020
Lockdown culture
This week's best culture, at home – from Korean ballet to a David Nicholls-inspired radio play
The Observer’s critics recommend the best new arts shows to enjoy on TV, on the radio and online
February 2020
Cloud Gate Dance Theatre review – swirling tales from Taiwan
Cheng Tsung-lung’s 13 Tongues circles and flows, while Lin Hwai-min’s Dust is a slow slide into the dark
September 2019
Cloud Gate avengers: the band of elastic superheroes who transformed Taiwan
Lin Hwai-min has spent 46 years tackling revolt, repression and rice in his fast-changing homeland. Now he is handing over his dance-theatre juggernaut to a former slipper seller
December 2018
Dirty dancing: the messiest stage shows – in pictures
As Olivier de Sagazan uses clay to turn himself into a human sculpture at London’s mime festival, we look at the dancers who have performed on stages filled with soil, flowers, dust and water
Amazing grace: 45 years of Cloud Gate Dance Theatre – in pictures
February 2014
Cloud Gate Dance Theatre review – 'Lin Hwai-min's own song of the earth'
Taiwanese rice fields might seem like too narrow a subject for a full-length dance work, writes Judith Mackrell, but Lin Hwai-min gives it an elemental scope
Poetry in motion: Cloud Gate Dance Theatre's Nine Songs - in pictures
The Taiwanese dance company present a dazzling staging of classical Chinese poems by Qu Yuan
Grain of truth: Lin Hwai-min on Cloud Gate Dance Theatre's Rice
When choreographer Lin Hwai-min created a tribute to one of Taiwan's staple foods it led his dancers to take part in a back-breaking harvest - and draw a sense of power from nature
November 2011
Cloud Gate Dance Theatre – review
This week's new theatre
This week's new theatre and dance
October 2009
Wind Shadow: Cloud Gate's dance of death
Explore the moves, influences and gunpowder plot of this collaboration between Lin Hwai-min's company and the visual artist Cai Guo-qiang at the Barbican
Step-by-step guide to dance
Step-by-step guide to dance: Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan
Combining the explosive force of martial arts and the rapt intensity of meditation, Lin Hwai-min's choreography is as exquisite as Chinese calligraphy, writesSanjoy Roy
Cloud Gate Dance Theatre Of Taiwan: Wind Shadow, London
