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Cheng Tsung-lung (鄭宗龍)

Cloud Gate Dance Theatre in Sounding Light

April 14, 2025 by David Mead

The dance is like watching a day in the life of a forest. And, like nature, Cheng’s choreography is very complex, full of beauty and special moments.

Categories Asia Asia Pages/亞洲頁 Reviews Taiwan/臺灣 Tags Cheng Tsung-lung (鄭宗龍) Cloud Gate Dance Theatre (雲門舞集)

Focus Dance Company: Tempestuous

March 27, 2025 by David Mead

A rich and diverse programme of one masterwork, one popular revival and eight new student works… All were superbly danced.

Categories Asia Asia Pages/亞洲頁 Reviews Taiwan/臺灣 Tags Chang Chien-ming (張建明) Cheng Tsung-lung (鄭宗龍) Focus Dance (焦點舞團) TNUA (國立臺北藝術大學)

Cloud Gate Dance Theatre: Lunar Halo in Taipei

March 9, 2024 by David Mead

It’s one of those very rare pieces that doesn’t just grow on you with repeated viewings but that seems to reveal more and spark new thoughts with each revisiting

Categories Asia Asia Pages/亞洲頁 Reviews Taiwan/臺灣 Tags Cheng Tsung-lung (鄭宗龍) Cloud Gate Dance Theatre (雲門舞集) National Theater Taipei TIFA 2024

Cloud Gate Dance Theatre: Lunar Halo

December 2, 2023 by Charlotte Kasner

The total commitment of the dancers produces a torrid intensity that sears across the footlights.

Categories Asia Asia Pages/亞洲頁 London & SE Reviews Taiwan/臺灣 Tags Cheng Tsung-lung (鄭宗龍) Cloud Gate Dance Theatre (雲門舞集) Sadler's Wells

A spectrum of urban flair: Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan’s Send in a Cloud

May 17, 2022May 17, 2022 by Yatin Lin

An explosion of strong and lively colours; a visually stunning production that leaves a lasting impression for audiences to take home and savour

Categories Asia Asia Pages/亞洲頁 Reviews Taiwan/臺灣 Tags Cheng Tsung-lung (鄭宗龍) Cloud Gate Dance Theatre (雲門舞集) National Theater Taipei

Cloud Gate Dance Theatre’s 13 Tongues, open-air amid the rice fields of Chihshang

December 5, 2021December 5, 2021 by David Mead

With its fields of rice, sky in multiple shades of grey, and clouds slowly drifting across the mountains, the landscape provides a magnificent backdrop

Categories Asia Asia Pages/亞洲頁 Reviews Taiwan/臺灣 Tags Cheng Tsung-lung (鄭宗龍) Cloud Gate Dance Theatre (雲門舞集)

Change and hope: Cloud Gate Dance Theatre (雲門舞集) in Lunar Halo (毛月亮) by Cheng Tsung-lung (鄭宗龍)

July 19, 2020 by David Mead

A terrific watch

Categories Asia Asia Pages/亞洲頁 Reviews Taiwan/臺灣 Tags Cheng Tsung-lung (鄭宗龍) Cloud Gate Dance Theatre (雲門舞集)

Magic! Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan in 13 Tongues and Dust

February 28, 2020 by David Mead

Searing images of the unimaginable

Categories London & SE Reviews Tags Cheng Tsung-lung (鄭宗龍) Cloud Gate Dance Theatre (雲門舞集) Lin Hwai-min (林懷民) Sadler's Wells

Exchange: Cloud Gate Dance Theatre meets TAO Dance Theater as Lin Hwai-min bows out

October 25, 2019October 21, 2019 by David Mead

Autumn River: delicate and nuanced

Categories Asia Asia Pages/亞洲頁 Reviews Taiwan/臺灣 Tags Cheng Tsung-lung (鄭宗龍) Cloud Gate Dance Theatre (雲門舞集) Lin Hwai-min (林懷民) National Theater Taipei TAO Dance Theater (陶身體劇場) Tao Ye (陶冶)

Fierce beauty from Cloud Gate 2 in 22° Lunar Halo

May 2, 2019May 1, 2019 by David Mead

Intensely powerful

Categories Asia Asia Pages/亞洲頁 Reviews Taiwan/臺灣 Tags Cheng Tsung-lung (鄭宗龍) Cloud Gate 2 (雲門2) National Taichung Theater National Theater Taipei

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