The.Tale.of.the.White.Serpent.(Cloud.Gate.Dance.Theatre,.Lin.Hwai-min,.1975-1996).DVDRip.avi 
To conclude sharing my Cloud Gate DVDs, here is The Tale of the White Serpent, one of the very first works by Lin Hwai-min, most directly indebted to Beijing opera.
On my part, I can't wait to see their Wild Cursive live in a week from now!
http://www.envynewmedia.com/client/cursive/launch.htm
“The Tale of the White Serpent” (1974) has now had over 400 performances and remains one of the company’s best-loved works in Taiwan. It is a tale of the love between human and spirit and of betrayal and regret. It retells an old Chinese story of a young man seduced by a white snake, accompanied by a green one, who take on a human form. When the truth about the snake and her intentions is revealed, the man is saved by a Buddhist monk. The work successfully brings together the Chinese story and Chinese and Graham dance technique. All too often such fusing results in an unsatisfactory outcome, but Lin manages to bring them together as one. Several times the green snake falls to the floor Graham-like, then repeatedly rolls in a circle in a movement common in Chinese theatre-dance. Both Chou Chang-ning (White snake) and Chiu I-wen (Green snake) excelled in their slipperiness.
(http://www.ballet-dance.com/200702/arti ... 61210.html)
