Bamboo.Dream.(Cloud.Gate.Dance.Theatre,.Lin.Hwai-min,.2002).DVDRip.avi 
Bamboo.Dream.documentary.(Cloud.Gate.Dance.Theatre,.Lin.Hwai-min,.2002).DVDRip.avi Bamboo.Dream.documentary.(Cloud.Gate.Dance.Theatre,.Lin.Hwai-min,.2002).DVDRip.English.srt Bamboo.Dream.documentary.(Cloud.Gate.Dance.Theatre,.Lin.Hwai-min,.2002).DVDRip.Chinese(idx,sub).rar A light-hearted, almost balletic work from Cloud Gate, choreographed by Lin Hwai-min between the monumental stillness of Moon Water and the glacial beauty of the calligraphic trilogy. Music by Arvo Pärt.
CLOUD GATE DANCE THEATRE
BAMBOO DREAM
Choreography Lin Hwai-min
Music Arvo Pärt
Hwang Sheng kae
*Arvo Pärt music by arrangement with Universal Edition Vienna
Set Design Austin Wang
Lighting Design Chang Tsan-tao
Costume Design Chen Wan-li
Duration
70 minutes without intermission
Premiere
April 21, 2001 at National Theatre, Taipei, Taiwan
ABOUT BAMBOO DREAM
Bamboo, along with the pine and plum tree which stands proudly in snowy winter, is considered by the Chinese as a symbol of elegance and integrity.
The bamboo grove is also celebrated as a meeting space, where many legendary gatherings have taken place among renowned scholars, and where scholars have wine and compose poems. During the Jin Dynasty (265-420 A.D.), seven scholars went into self-exile in a bamboo grove as a gesture of protest against a corrupt society. They are admired as the Seven Sages in the Bamboo Grove. The bamboo grove also provides an ideal setting for fairytales and love stories.
In Bamboo Dream, choreographer Lin Hwai-min takes off from this beloved metaphor of Chinese culture to create a dance fantasy on a stage forested with bamboo trees.
The work is composed of seven scenes that draw on images of seasonal change. In “Morning Mist,” eight male dancers in flowing white suits perform a slow and deliberate dance, their gestures magnified by long sleeves resembling those used in Peking opera. In “Spring Breeze,” a complex drama of shifting relationships among three figures dressed in black, red, and white unfolds. “Summer Heat” brings on 15 dancers to convey the desperation of the hot season—running, jumping, or flailing on their backs like overturned insects. A couple performs the brooding and solemn “Autumn Path”; the entire troupe emerges in white for the fluid and vigorous “When Rain Stops”; and a lone woman enacts the sorrowful “At Midnight.” In the closing “Snow,” white feathers begin to fall, and six women appear with their hair and red dresses floating, dream-like, in the wind. But soon the entire dream dissolves in a surprising and moving ending.
Central to Lin Hwai-min's works are his choices of music. Just as the music of Bach imparted a poised serenity to Moon Water, so the music of Part forms a darkly meditative yet emotionally charged backdrop for Bamboo Dreams.
(http://www.cloudgate.org.tw/eng/english ... text01.htm)
